This episode of GeoInspirations features Posner Center member James Rattling Leaf. Learn about James’ work, journey, and vision for the future. Dr. Kerski shares, “I met James nearly 20 years ago in conjunction with work he and I were doing supporting GIS at tribal colleges and universities. I greatly admire James’ vision of bringing indigenous people… Read more »
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Please Talk to Me! I Am a Stranger Until You Talk to Me
Edna Kilusu is an international student from the Maasai ethnic group in Tanzania. She is currently a Communication and Marketing Student Intern at Posner Center member Orkeeswa, and studying Psychology and Anthropology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. Read about her experiences in this article, originally published in Terralingua’s Landscape Magazine, vol. 8 “What?” my friend… Read more »
The Giving Project: Change, Not Charity
A Posner Center tenant, the Chinook Fund’s Giving Project brings together a diverse cohort of people from all income levels who are passionate about social change and interested in developing new skills in fundraising, grantmaking, and community building. You can join this online community leadership program to find out how to deepen your volunteering and… Read more »
Symposium 2021: An Inspirational Collage of Points of View
The Posner Center’s Symposium 2021 is in the books and it was truly an inspiring experience! It took place as a series of virtual sessions from Nov 3rd to Nov 19th with an interactive platform for sharing, collaborating, and learning. The platform will continue to be available for participants to continue discussions, review session recordings,… Read more »
USAID and New Partners
Why now is the time to consider partnering with the largest bi-lateral aid donor USAID has long been the largest bilateral aid donor in the international development market. Recently, it has grown even further in size and has taken important steps to making its funding more accessible to new partners around the world. While securing… Read more »
MIIS Partnership Creates Scholarship Opportunity for Posner Community
Thanks to a new partnership between the Posner Center and Middlebury’s Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Posner Center Community members are now guaranteed a $10,000 scholarship toward on-site Middlebury Institute master’s programs. In addition to the Posner Center Scholarship, students may also receive additional merit and need-based scholarships depending on the strength of their application… Read more »
Three Tips to Get Started Working with USAID
For New USAID Partners Securing funds from USAID can be resource-intensive and highly competitive, but getting a piece of the $21 billion the agency awarded last year can be well worth the effort. At AidKonekt, we want to make it easier for new partners to enter and grow in the USAID market. Our mission is… Read more »
Posner Center gets a Mural
As anyone who lives, works, or visits the RiNO neighborhood of Denver knows, murals are omnipresent and super popular! And now, we’re going to get our own mural by local artist, Lindee Zimmer. She’ll be doing the mural installation, with participation from local youth and community organizations in early April, 2021. Lindee believes in art… Read more »
2020 Goalmakers Report
The Posner Center was proud to be Denver’s host organization for Goalmakers 2020, a nation-wide initiative to bring together practitioners from NGOs, companies, foundations, and universities to advance the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals (#SDGs) given the severe setbacks around the world from Covid-19. Throughout 4Q2020, roundtable discussions and public events centered on individual SDGs were held in seven… Read more »
Community Spotlight: Waleska Crowe, Guatemala Deputy Director for EWB
If you would like to get to know one of our Posner Center Community members working in Central America, listen to this Calculated Change podcast featuring Waleska Crowe. Waleska is the Guatemala Deputy Director of Engineers Without Borders. Waleska shares her story in this podcast interview. Her unique identity as 50% indigenous Quiche Mayan and… Read more »
Rebuilding and Transitioning to More Equitable Global Systems After COVID-19
In their annual Goalkeepers Report, Bill and Melinda Gates noted that after decades of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, progress has stalled, and we are in fact going backwards on nearly all of the indicators. We are now in a situation where we need to restart and rebuild systems and solutions to get the… Read more »
A Tale of Two Buildings
On two different continents sit two similar buildings, the Kili Hub and the Posner Center for International Development. They are both unique and innovative places within their entire countries of Tanzania and the United States. These buildings are filled with passionate people working for many different NGOs that, collectively, are improving countless lives around… Read more »
2020 Development Practice Graduates Aspire to Change the World
This month, 9 students from 5 countries will graduate with their Master of Development Practice (MDP) from Regis University. For the past three years, these students have pursued their degree by participating in courses via the Posner Center’s IEEE Global Classroom – a real-time, virtual classroom environment that brings students together from around the world…. Read more »
Women’s Voices for the Earth Educates on Safer Disinfecting
A titanic amount of column inches could be—and has been—written about the current and possible repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis has highlighted weaknesses in infrastructure, government, the economy, and healthcare, to name but a few, and has called into question the basic systems that we have come to treat as sacrosanct…. Read more »
Symposium 2020: Collaboration with Local Partners in Business and Research
As a communication researcher invested in community-based research, I was especially excited to be able to attend the Posner Center Symposium’s session, “Putting Power in the Hands of Local Entrepreneurs” presented by Devin Hibbard, Founder & CEO of Street Business School. I was particularly interested in what insight Hibbard might share that could be applied… Read more »