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July 2015

92Y International Relations Newsletter

International Relations

2015 Ford Motor Company International Fellowship of 92nd Street Y

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This June, the Ford Fellowship included 24 fellows from Brazil, China, Detroit (USA), Ghana, India, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, and Poland. This was the second year that Detroit fellows were included in the program. The fellows, who are all social entrepreneurs, spent three weeks working intensively to improve their management and leadership skills to better tackle the urgent challenges facing their communities.

With funding from the Ford Motor Company Fund, 92Y offered a robust leadership experience in partnership with Columbia University, Yale University, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Doe Fund, Greyston Bakery and Masbia Soup Kitchen. Our goal was to immerse fellows in an in-depth, multi-faceted training on strategic, social, emotional and physical

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aspects of leadership. The fellows came away with greater self-awareness, self-management and the ability to more effectively serve their communities.

Click here for more information about the fellowship. For Ford Fellow alumni news, see page 2.

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The newsletter is back in a brand new format! We hope you enjoy learning about our different programs, and look forward to reading more from us in the near future.

92Y International Relations supports all 92Y international programming, cultivates relationships and forges strategic partnerships on behalf of 92Y. We also orchestrate pillar 92Y programs, including the Ford Motor Company International Fellowship of 92nd Street Y, the International Way section of our annual Street Festival, and the Diplomatic Roundtable Discussion series. For more information on past Diplomatic Roundtable Discussions, see page 3.

A large part of what we do involves listening. We listen to our international partners and we listen to our 92Y

About: International Relations at 92Y

 

See Page 3 for more information on diplomatic outreach and department updates.

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colleagues in an effort to bring the best of 92Y to the world and the best of the world to 92Y.

Recent department highlights:

Launched first Ford Fellow webinar, a training for the Videolicious app, with thanks to 92Y Nursery School parent and The Talk Market, Inc. co-founder and president Amanda Eilian (2/2015)

Introduced the NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs to the 92Y Center for Innovation and Social Impact and 92Y Educational Outreach, as well as to Ford Fellow program partner the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (1/2015)

 

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Ford Fellowship

Alumni News

Amlan Ganguly (India, 2011) Prayasam, Amlan’s organization, won the 2015 Adobe Creative Catalyst Award. In addition, Amlan published an article in PassBlue about mentoring children for social change. Check it out here.

Babere Silvanus (Kenya, 2015) Silvanus has been selected to participate in the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security in Jordon this August.

Daniél Tilias (Haiti, 2014) Daniél was awarded a spot on the list of 2014’s Most Outstanding Young Haitians. Click here for more information.

Galit Toledano (Israel, 2009) Galit treated her son’s acute dyslexia with The Raviv Method. To learn more about this method, click here.

Martin Saning’o Kariongi Ole Sanago (Tanzania, 2005) Saning’o won the Schwab Foundation 2014 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. Click here for more information.

Miri Ziv (Israel, 2005) Miri was awarded the 2015 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Distinguished Public Service and Global Impact in Cancer Advocacy. Click here for more information.

Pooja Taparia (India, 2012) Pooja’s organization, Arpan, won the Global NGO Excellence Award in the Child Rights category and the Dasra Girl Power Award for 2015 in the Safety and Mobility category. Additionally, Pooja received the Architects of the Future Award 2013. Click here for more information.

Rashneh Pardiwala (India, 2013) Rashneh’s organization, the Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), created a Solar Forest in India named Surya Aranya. Click here to learn more.

Seng Nu Pan (Myanmar, 2014) Seng has taken a new position as country representative for the Nexus Fund, and will be helping provide capacity building support to grassroots human rights groups.

Smarita Sengupta (India, 2013) Smarita received the Global Leadership Impact Award from the Global Women’s Leadership Network. Click here for more information.

Sohini Chakraborty (India, 2010) Sohini’s organization, Kolkata Sanved, won the Global Fund for Children’s 2014 Global Catalyst Award. Click here for more information.

Sopheap Im (Cambodia, 2009) Sopheap’s organization Digital Divide Data (DDD) was ranked #31 in a list of the top 500 NGOs in the world for 2015. Click here for more information.

Suman Malladi (India, 2013) Suman’s organization, CHORD, was featured in U.S. Ambassador Richard Varma’s video about his experience in India. Check it out here.

Vrishali Pispati (India, 2014) Vrishali published an article in PassBlue on her organization Mumbai Mobile Creches, which utilizes mobile preschools for migrant children. Click here to read it.

Congratulations! 2015 Ghanaian Ford Fellow Hayford Siaw welcomed his

second son, Hayford, on June 17, 2015

Pablo Viñas Guzmán (Dominican Republic, 2014):

Last year, Pablo was the #GivingTuesday country

director for the entire Dominican Republic.

This year, #GivingTuesday is December 1, 2015. For

information on how to get involved, check out:

givingtuesday.org/join

 

The Ford Fellows continue to collaborate about pressing issues facing their communities today. If

you want to reach out, get involved or share insight, contact

agardy@92Y.org

 

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Diplomatic Outreach

Have any updates for the 92Y International Relations department or the Ford Fellows alumni? E-mail agardy@92Y.org with your news!

Preparations for the International Way section of the 2015 Street Festival are well underway. 92Y’s diplomatic partners are at the heart of this block-long display of cultural booths, making the annual festival unique among those in New York City. This year’s celebration will feature representatives from China, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, among others. International Way is one of the largest sponsors of the 92Y Street Festival. Over the years, 62 countries have participated, spanning a total of five continents. Past colorful moments have included paella made in an eight-foot diameter dish by the Spanish booth, Singaporean ladies dressed as giant orchids, an Egyptian “horse” (two men in costume) galloping the length of the festival, a 16-piece Barbadian calypso band, visitors dressing up as Samurai warriors at the Japanese booth, a long line of eager participants in a raffle wheel at the German booth, and festivalgoers posing for green-screen photos at the Israel booth. Click here for a full list of past participants.

International Way at the annual 92Y

Street Festival

With thanks to our hosts and moderators:

May 5, 2015 Host: 92Y Board Member Mr. Tom Block with wife Marilyn Freidman Moderator: Dr. Benn Steil, Director of International Economics for the Council on Foreign Relations

March 12, 2015 Host: 92Y Board Member Mr. John Paulson Moderator: Dr. Benn Steil Special Guest: Mr. Robert Rubin, Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

January 15, 2015 Host and Moderator: 92Y Board Member Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and author

October 20, 2014 Host: Mr. Dnyaneshwar Mulay, Ambassador and Consul General of India in New York Moderator: Ms. Barbara Crossette, author and former New York Times bureau chief of South Asia and the United Nations

November 13, 2013 Sephardic Roundtable Host: Mr. Juan Ramón Martínez Salazar, Ambassador and Consul General of Spain in New York Moderator: 92Y Board Chairman Mr. Tom Kaplan Special Guests: Elie and Marion Wiesel

Diplomatic Roundtables

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Attended United Nations “high-level panel” Staying Together – Dialogue in the Face of Violent Extremism with UN Deputy-Secretary General Jan Eliasson (1/2015)

More International Relations Highlights

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Was the non-profit partner at the Women Consuls General Welcome and Planning Lunch, hosted by Italian Consul General (1/2015) Launched the first 92Y Women’s Diplomatic Roundtable with host and moderator Gail Saltz. (1/2015) Served on Creative Solutions in Conflict Zones panel with other

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Fulbright alumni at a Fulbright New York event at Bronx Manhattan Community College (BMCC) (1/2015) Introduced CEOs George McDonald of The Doe Fund and Mike Brady of Greyston Bakery, and participated in their brainstorming session on fighting poverty in NYC (12/2014)

   

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