Community

Africa Agenda

Africa Agenda is driven by the need to change the one-sided narrative of African News. We use the Africa Agenda website, journalistic tools, and events, including the Africa News Matters website, as platforms for critical engagement and news analysis about the African continent.

Africa Development Promise

Africa Development Promise builds on and strengthens the collective action of rural entrepreneurial women through agriculture in East Africa. We champion the cooperative approach because of its principles of democracy, inclusion, and solidarity – cooperatives empower members by promoting self-help and self-responsibility. When women can contribute their creativity, innovation, and hard work, prosperity and independence follow, lifting entire communities out of poverty.

Africa Network for Animal Welfare

Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) is a Pan-African Organization based in Kenya that promotes humane treatment of all animals and the well being of communities living with them. ANAW-USA partners with ANAW, and others, promoting an all Africa agenda, sustained by communities for conservation, compassion, protection and responsible care of all animals.

Africa School Assistance Project

The Africa School Assistance Project (ASAP) believes that educating children, particularly girls, is fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future for Africa. ASAP is increasing access to education for children in poor, remote areas of Tanzania and is developing a Learning Improvement Initiative to enhance teaching quality and classroom learning. ASAP works in accordance with the UN Millennium Development Goals and our projects meet rigorous standards for sustainability cultural appropriateness. Additionally, ASAP leads groups of American volunteers to work on our school projects to create a cross-cultural understanding between Americans and Africans.

AidKonekt

AidKonekt is an online platform that makes it easy to build and monitor your USAID pipeline. AidKonekt provides a ticker of USAID forecast changes, suggests primes/partners for each opportunity, makes DEC research easy, includes a local compensation plan archive, and much more!

Alexander & Associates LLC

Alexander & Associates supports executives and senior teams in businesses, non-profit organizations, education, and government to enhance their influence and achieve success in leadership. They also work with emerging leaders. Their clients say they help them see new and broader perspectives that allow them to address real and underlying issues that block their success. Alexander & Associates’ focus areas include corporate responsibility and sustainability leadership, change leadership, adaptive leadership, and executive coaching. Partnering with their clients, they help them to thrive in a time of changing economic, social, and environmental realities. They work with leaders, teams, and entire organizations to provide confidential and effective strategies that address challenges without obvious solutions. As seasoned leaders themselves, Joan and Bart Alexander have a special commitment to support the development of future generations of change leaders.

American Pathways University: Technology, Business, Political Science School at UC Denver, School of Mines

The mission of American Pathways University is to provide an affordable, accessible, and authorized program of higher education, including general education in arts and sciences and specialized fields of study in vocational and academic majors that facilitate immediate and long-term changes in thinking, doing, and being as cornerstones for personal freedom, successful lives, vocational careers, financial self-reliance, and community leadership. These outcomes are served by a general education informed worldview that introduces students to the world of ideas and career oriented majors that prepare graduates for the world of work.

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international NGO based in London focused on human rights globally. In-depth research is conducted on human rights abuses to investigate and expose the facts to lobby governments, companies and other groups to follow and respect international law. The Evidence Lab is a group within Amnesty International that uses innovative techniques to corroborate witness testimonies using open source information including video verification, satellite imagery and other remote sensing analysis, geospatial analysis, and weapons identification.

Amoudath Mazu

Amoudath Mazu is passionate about gender equality as well as managing and monitoring projects especially for women, girls, youth and the most vulnerable. She has a background in Development Economics, professional skills development, project development, advocacy and creating sustainable employment for rural women and girls. She is also a World Bank Group Africa alumnus where she conducted research to address gender issues and proposed solutions to reduce the gender gap (particularly for the following three projects: SWEDD-Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project; Nafa-Social Protection; Environment and Mining).

Angela Varnum

Angela Varnum is a large animal veterinarian, a licensed teacher, and develops programs in animal health and welfare for nonprofits, in higher education, and with diverse audiences. Varnum holds advanced degrees in global health and international development, is competent in the Spanish language, and has a specific interest in animal welfare. Varnum enjoys helping children to become stewards of animals and assisting adults to take ownership of animal care, and believes we are connected by animals’ worldwide importance to human livelihoods, lifestyles, and health.

Ashley Kochans

Ashley is a digital marketer that loves explaining complicated things in simple ways. As the founder of Kochans Consulting, she brings her experience in website optimization and marketing automation to mission-driven organizations. When she’s not maximizing organic traffic, she’s cooking organic meals, or practicing yoga.

Audrey Odogu

Akpevweoghene Audrey Odogu has over 10 years of working as a social development professional and with non-profits across Nigeria and Africa. Her work in the social development sector focuses on education, volunteer management, youth unemployment (TIVET) skilling and reskilling for employment, grantmaking, managing and building non-profit capacity.

Austin Snowbarger

Austin is the Manager of Learning and Partnerships at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP). CDP is the only full-time resource dedicated to helping donors maximize their impact by making more intentional disaster-related giving decisions. In his role, Austin supports education and consulting activities with research, writing, events and NGO partner and consulting relationships. Austin’s background and interests are in disaster recovery, risk reduction, program management and organizational learning.

AYA Foundation

The AYA Foundation is Colorado’s Black-led community Foundation. It is a collaborative organization that is capable of securing a variety of resources; growing and redistributing those resources in a way that supports and benefits the Black ecosystem based on researched and tested methods to build economic empowerment.

Beyond our Borders

Philanthropy that empowers women and girls internationally.  Beyond Our Borders is a group-advised fund held at The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. WFCO’s mission is to advance and accelerate economic opportunities for Colorado women and their families.

Beyond Our Borders recognizes the interconnectedness women in Colorado have to women around the world, and builds on this mission to advance and accelerate opportunities for women and girls around the world.

BLACXERA

B L A C X E R A (black-era) is a community and collegiate organization that is dedicated to the experiences and existences of Blacx (Black, Afro-Latinx, African, Caribbean, and Mixed) people who share African & Indigenous Ancestry. B L A C X E R A seeks to provide a place, a space, and a vibe to support the inner and external needs of our community and the community for collective and individual liberation.

Bridges to Prosperity

Bridges to Prosperity envisions a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty, and Bridges to Prosperity believes that connection is the foundation of opportunity. We work with local communities, partners and foundations, to build trail bridges that connect residents to education, health care, and economic opportunity. With a sophisticated data collection and evaluation program, we’re able to prove that the value and impact of our work are sustained long after the opening celebration. 

Bryan Rojas-Araúz/In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, & Consulting

Bryan Rojas-Araúz is a bilingual bicultural Licensed Psychologist and Afro-Latino immigrant of Costa Rican and Panamanian descent, and is is a scholar-activist, healer, and the co-founder of In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, & Consulting. Rojas-Araúz earned his doctorate in Counseling Psychology with a Specialization in Spanish Language Psychological Service. He is a faculty member in the International Disaster Psychology program at DU, and provides immigration evaluations, speaking engagements, wellness retreats, and consulting. His research includes Latinx Psychological Wellbeing, Immigrant Experiences, Access to Mental Health and Education, Critical Consciousness, and Cultural Sensitivity, Advocacy, & Social Justice.

CAI Global

CAI is a diverse, mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care and social services delivered to vulnerable populations world-wide. Since 1979, we’ve tackled the toughest health and social issues that confront populations and communities most effected by health disparities. Working as trusted partners, our customized services build the capacity of health and human service organizations, improving lives in the communities we serve and fostering a more aware, healthy, compassionate & equitable world.

Casey Thomas

Casey is a strategic leader with over a decade of experience driving change within nonprofits and youth-serving programming. Casey is committed to continual improvement, organizational learning, and sustainable change management. She is an innovative and creative problem-solver, consistently pushing for evolution within organizations to overcome challenges and increase efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.

CATCH Global Foundation

CATCH Global Foundation is a Whole Child organization that launches kids around the world toward healthier lifestyles by linking schools and communities to the resources needed to create and sustain physical and mental health for future generations.

Causal Design

Causal Design is a social enterprise providing economic analysis, policy research, and M&E systems support. Our firm – with staff in Denver, Cambodia, Kenya, and Malawi – partners with international development clients to provide rigorous independent program evaluation, expand cultures of evidence within organizations, and join them in efforts to relieve human suffering and end poverty.

Children’s Future International

We believe that every child has the right to a life of dignity and opportunity. Children’s Future operates a Learning Center in rural Cambodia offering unique and comprehensive Education, Well-Being, and Community Outreach programs. We serve the poorest and most vulnerable children who face the risks and hardships of life in an underdeveloped and traumatized country. Our goal is to facilitate the fulfillment of their basic human rights and support them in becoming self-reliant, compassionate individuals who develop into professionals, role models and future community leaders.

Chinook Fund

Chinook Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social and economic justice in the state of Colorado. Our funding supports the most strategic work unfolding at the local level to address globalization, poverty, war, racism and environmental destruction. A community foundation, Chinook Fund pools the resources of individuals and businesses to support the best of peer-reviewed grassroots organizations working for social change and to improve the quality of life for all Coloradans.

Christina Jones

Christina Jones is an educational and curriculum consultant specializing in re-imagining and designing humanizing and joyful learning experiences for youth and adults, institutions, businesses, and organizations. Through her creative and innovative approach to curriculum design, she strives to engage both the brain and heart!

CLLARO: Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy Research Organization

CLLARO’s mission is to empower Latinos through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado. CLLARO’s vision for the future is a State of Colorado where Latinos achieve their fullest potential.More than one out of five Coloradans are Latino. Some Latino families have centuries-old roots in the southwestern United States. Spanish colonists grazed sheep in southern Colorado in the 1600s, long before the U.S. took the southwest from México by force in 1848. Other Latinos in Colorado are—like most Americans—either immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Today, Latinos play a vital and constructive role in the Colorado economy. Nevertheless, Latinos’ median annual household income is $23,550 below that of non-Hispanic whites. Twenty-eight percent of Latino children live in poverty. While Colorado’s high school four-year graduation rate in Colorado has increased to 79%, Latinos still lag behind at 71%. The percentage of Latinos lacking health insurance is over two-and-a-half times that of whites. The average size of Latino households is shrinking, causing greater time and economic pressures on Latinos trying to care for disabled and elderly family members. Colorado’s Latino elderly population is growing nearly twice as fast as other Coloradans over 65, and will more than triple between 2010 and 2030.

CNRG Accounting Advisory, LLC

CNRG Accounting Advisory, LLC. thrives on helping more nonprofits understand their financials and speak about money with confidence through education, consulting and outsourced accounting.

Coalition for Community Writing

The Coalition for Community Writing (CCW) is an organization of educators, scholars, writers, students, artists, and community change makers who believe in the transformative potential of coalition building through writing toward social change. CCW provides resources, consultation, and partnership to our members, as well as in-person and virtual gatherings, such as the biennial Conference on Community Writing. CCW supports community writing through research and publication in our affiliated journals, Community Literacy Journal and Reflections: Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, and also encourages community-engaged teaching through consultation and mentorship, creative works and public arts, direct programming, and relationship building across communities. CCW is reimagining how writing is used as a tool for public awareness and expression, for dialogue across differences, and for community and coalition building.

Colorado Ceasefire

Colorado Ceasefire believes gun violence destroys the lives of too many Coloradans. Every day, it raises awareness about the dangers of gun violence within homes and communities, and works with Colorado lawmakers to implement and maintain common-sense gun safety reforms that keep families and children free from harm.

Because every Coloradan has the right to be safe where they work, live, learn, and play.

Colorado State University – Africa Center

The Africa Center at Colorado State University’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability advances innovative and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research that cross-cuts conventional disciplines in an attempt to tackle environmental and sustainability issues. Specifically, The Africa Center members address complex issues of biodiversity, ecosystems, wildlife, livestock, and human health well-being, and the interactions that occur between these issues across spatio-temporal scales. The Africa Center members are actively involved in research, education, and collaborative engagement between institutions in Africa and the United States to promote sustainable ecosystems and societies.

Colorado State University Public Policy and Administration

International organizations, government agencies, and nonprofits are actively seeking skilled professionals to lead teams and develop policies that improve people’s lives. Colorado State University’s Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) prepares students for public sector or nonprofit leadership through an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates research-based academic theory with real-world experience.

Colorado Youth Congress

The Colorado Youth Congress (CYC) works with young people across the state to transform people, communities, and broader systems. CYC grounds its work in the idea that by focusing on individual healing and community health, it is possible to create a society where justice, well-being, and sustainability are practiced.

Corus International

Corus International is an ensemble of world-class non-profits and for-profits working in concert to end extreme poverty once and for all. The Corus family of organizations includes global public health agency IMA World Health, international development organization Lutheran World Relief, U.K.-based technology for development company CGA Technologies, impact investing fund Ground Up Investing, and direct trade company Farmers Market Brands.

Counterpart International

For over 50 years, Counterpart International has forged partnerships with communities and local organizations to build inclusive, sustainable communities in which people thrive.  Their current project portfolio is focused on education, food security and agricultural development, effective governance, institutional strengthening, and economic development.

DAI

DAI works on the frontlines of global development. Transforming ideas into action—action into impact. They are committed to shaping a more livable world. DAI’s mission is to make a lasting difference in the world by helping people improve their lives. They envision a world in which communities and societies become more prosperous, fairer and better governed, safer, healthier, and environmentally more sustainable. Since 1970, DAI has worked in more than 150 countries—delivering results across the spectrum of international development contexts, from stable societies and high-growth economies to challenging environments racked by political or military conflict.

Daring Girls Formerly “AfricAid”

Daring Girls partners locally to ensure that girls have the knowledge, tools, mentorship, and support to confidently design their own futures. Daring Girls mentors secondary school girls in Tanzania to complete their education, develop into confident leaders and transform their own lives and their communities. Through our two core mentoring programs we support girls who dare to do something different, who choose to prioritize their education and take control of their futures. Every week, these Scholars show up to learn together in a supportive environment from a successful, university educated woman mentor who exemplifies what they can become. The outcome is resilient, proactive, and socially responsible girls who are prepared to set and reach their goals, secure better jobs, raise healthier families and increase the standing of women in society.

DaVita Bridge of Life

The mission of Bridge of Life is to strengthen healthcare globally through sustainable programs that prevent and treat chronic disease.

DEI Leadership Institute

The DEI Leadership Institute was established to develop and support activist leaders who have the skills, knowledge, and heart to be effective agents of change for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The DEI Master Practitioner Certification Program is designed to enable and empower leaders to make significant change to the diversity, equity, and inclusion of the organizations that they lead. The program is an online, adviser supported, six-week, self-paced curriculum which includes: History & Background, Terminology, Best Practices, Measurement Tools, Approaches, and Project Work.

Denver Urban Gardens

Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) provides the access, skills, and resources for people to grow healthy food in their community and regenerate urban green spaces. DUG envisions a sustainable urban future where people are deeply and directly connected to the earth, each other, and the food they eat.

Primarily serving in-need residents in Metro Denver, DUG provides neighborhoods, schools, and partner organizations the essential resources to create and sustain their own community gardens. In addition to supporting well over 100 gardens, DUG operates education, outreach, and support programs centered on gardening, healthy food access, and community leadership. DUG also operates DeLaney Community Farm, a community-supported agriculture project focused on local food security and education.

Development in Gardening (DIG)

DIG’s mission is to improve the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world’s most uniquely vulnerable people by teaching them to plant restorative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging. Since 2006, DIG has been working in regenerative agriculture to achieve meaningful impact across nearly a dozen countries.

Dina Bleecker

Dina Bleecker became interested in joining the Posner Center in order to have access to thoughtful and engaging programming and events, as well as to have access to use of the space for philanthropy, education, and networking purposes for various small groups including the Denver Foundation’s Arts Affinity Group and Metro Denver’s Impact100 organization.

Diversity Travel

Diversity Travel are an award-winning travel organization, specializing in fully integrated travel services for the humanitarian, faith, and NGO sectors. Our non-profit travel experts can support with travel arrangements to familiar and more obscure areas of the globe, with access to exclusive and flexible humanitarian airfares.

dZi Foundation

The dZi Foundation works in partnership with remote communities in Nepal to create lasting improvements in their quality of life by helping communities take control of their own future through the support of locally-initiated community development projects. dZi provides training and funds that allow communities to complete projects of their own choosing that increase education, health and income-generating opportunities. Their Deep Development program (DD) encompasses the majority of their work in Nepal. As one of the most innovative and efficient programs in the Himalayan region, DD encourages underserved communities to discover their own abilities and skills to create permanent solutions for better educational opportunities and facilities, basic health and hygiene, and income generation.

Educate!

Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate!, we’re obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn, and thrive in today’s economy by:

1) Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and 

2) Delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.

Our work has been validated by several independent evaluations, which found positive outcomes on income, employment, gender equity, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, educational attainment, and climate change resilience. Along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

Effect X LLC

Effective organizations require feedback and relevant information even more than money. Effect X addresses this information need by providing evaluation and capacity development consulting services to organizations around the world. Our academic background leverages the insights and rigor of leading evaluation theorists and our extensive background in professional philanthropy and marketing ensures practical usefulness. While we are excited about any new challenge, our work to date has focused on need assessments, program design, impact evaluation, faith-based programs and evaluating marketing and online communications.

Ekar Farm

Ekar Farm and Community Gardens is a communal urban farm, inspired by Jewish values. They work to build community, provide experiential and environmental education, and grow sustainably produced fruits and vegetables, expanding access to those in need.

El Hogar Ministries, Inc.

El Hogar Ministries, Inc. supports the mission of El Hogar Projects in Honduras. El Hogar provides a quality education and a safe and nurturing home to children living in vulnerable circumstances in Honduras. El Hogar’s goal is to break the cycle of poverty so that students can fulfill their potential as productive and independent Honduran citizens.

Empowerment International

Empowerment International, (EI) a Colorado registered nonprofit 501(c)3, has been working in Nicaragua since 2004.  EI offers community-based holistic educational programs to children and families in two extremely impoverished communities in Nicaragua. Most of the families live on less than $2/day and most adult members of the community have an average of a third-grade education and do not always understand the value of the long-term benefits of educating their children.  The goals of EI’s program are to instill the value of education in the families and children and to remove the physical and emotional barriers that prevent regular attendance of school.   This is done through daily home visits where parents are encouraged to send their kids to school and are mentored on how to enhance their children’s education.  In addition, during these visits counseling and emotional support are provided to help them find solutions to barriers, physical or otherwise, that prevent children from attending school.  EI provides material support as well such as mandatory school uniforms, shoes, supplies, tuition, and transportation for rural high school students.  The program participants have access to tutoring, a computer center, a small library and research center, several enrichment activities, and professional counseling.   Since 2009 EI has achieved a program (and school) retention rate of over 95% and the percentage of students that go on from primary school to secondary has been over 90% and rising.

Engineers Without Borders USA

EWB-USA’s vision is a world in which the communities we serve can sustainably meet their basic human needs. Our community-driven development model empowers developing communities while simultaneously transforming EWB-USA members into global engineers who are equipped with both the technical and cross-cultural expertise to implement sustainable engineering solutions. As a result of EWB-USA’s ongoing projects, children can cross sturdy bridges to attend school, local clinics have consistent supplies of electricity, and families can access clean water.

Eric Temple

Eric Temple is a Colorado native and after a few years traveling the world he now works for The Citizens Foundation, USA, an independent 501(c)(3) that fundraises for The Citizens Foundation (TCF). TCF builds and operates schools for the most underserved communities in Pakistan. TCF operates 1,833 schools with 280,000 children in all provinces of Pakistan. In the country with the world’s second worst gender disparity, TCF classrooms have a 50:50 student gender ratio and only employs female teachers and principals. TCF is the largest private employer of women in the country.

Erin Dunlap

Erin Dunlap has 15 years of global health development experience in more than 30 countries, and is currently a Technical Advisor in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID. She advises USAID HQ and Mission staff on the use of expenditure, cost, and other PEPFAR indicator data for the US Government’s strategic planning and investments for global HIV/AIDS priorities. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua, and holds a BA from the University of Nebraska and MPP from George Mason University.

Esther Balami

Esther Balami is a lawyer with over nine years of experience in the humanitarian sector, working with displaced and vulnerable people in Nigeria. Currently, Balami’s work focuses on protection of the rights of displaced people in accordance with the law, seeking to ensure their access to basic services with a view of finding durable solutions to the displacement. Balami holds a master’s degree in International Development Law and Human Rights from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and a Law degree and is passionate about development and human rights, especially improving the rights of displaced and vulnerable individuals.

Far Away Friends

Far Away Friends is a locally-led and female founded nonprofit started by two young women with a big vision: to break cycles of generational poverty in rural Uganda forever. Working in partnership with local leaders to identify investments in schools and community resources that impact the lives of children, Far Away Friends is now operating their own model primary school and teacher training hub, while also equipping girls in “Sister Schools” across rural Amolatar District with Life Skills training and menstrual hygiene management tools with the goal of lowering teen pregnancies and drop-out rates by 50% in the next decade. A tenacious, grassroots-fueled organization, Far Away Friends’ programs and projects are improving access to quality education, building the capacity of teachers and schools, enhancing health care resources, and ensuring that children in rural communities have the tools they need to break cycles of generational poverty forever.

Five Points Life

The Arvada Adventist church is dedicated to championing justice and fairness for all people while helping them create their best life.

Gail Schulze

Gail Schulze volunteers for and serves on the board of a non-profit organization called Project Redwood. Project Redwood is a nonprofit partnership of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni that provides funding, expertise and connections to social entrepreneurs who address the challenge of global poverty.
Schulze is the Chair of the Community of Grantees and Sponsors, which brings Project Redwood grant recipients together and offers non-financial support (this is in addition to the $30,000 grant awards these organizations have received).

Genesis Mwamba

Genesis Mwamba is a fourth-year student at the Copperbelt University School of Medicine pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB). Genesis Mwamba is an organizer, an educator and a champion for sustainable development. He is the founder and Executive Director of Lead Me Back Foundation. A registered Non-Governmental Organisation that facilitates and implements the first five sustainable development goals in Zambian Communities with much inclination to the fourth one “Quality Education”.

Girls With Books!

Girls With Books! was established on October 1, 2022, by the merger of two small and successful organizations – Empowerment Through Education Foundation (ETE) and Project Education South Sudan (PESS), each with a 17-year history of serving the educational needs of South Sudanese youth.

They fulfill their mission by providing education for South Sudanese girls living in the cities of Juba and Bor, South Sudan, and in refugee camps in northern Uganda. The program serves both primary and secondary students and also offers some post-graduation programs, such as computer skills and entrepreneurship, which are not commonly taught in schools.

Girls With Books! maintains a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS and also maintains an NGO registration with the governments of South Sudan and Uganda.

Global Health Connections

Global Health Connections, Inc. is a 10 year old NFP organization that provides‑education‑opportunities for individuals to connect, engage, and solve global health issues. Our current projects include: the Global Water Challenge program for middle school students in Colorado; our annual Global Health and Water Conference; and, our Health-based Vocational Training School in Leogane, Haiti.‑We believe in health care as a human right, and strive to raise global health awareness through community-based learning and mentorship.

Global Livingston Institute

The mission of the Global Livingston Institute is to positively impact the health and vitality of communities in East Africa and inform GLI participants through research, exchange of ideas, and knowledge sharing. For GLI, all roads lead back to a very simple mission: Listen. Think. Act. Before we do anything we must first ask ourselves: have we first listened and spent time thinking, before taking action? We believe this mission has the capacity to help change how people talk and think about international development and East Africa.

Global Research Institute

The Global Research Institute is a consortium of international Social Science scholars who conduct independent research on current world issues for academic, government, and judicial constituencies.

Global Seed Savers

Global Seed Savers is an International Development non-profit organization committed to building food and seed sovereignty. Currently, their work is focused in the Philippines and executed in close partnership with Global Seed Savers Philippines (Philippines Counterpart NGO). Through educating and encouraging farmers to return to the historical practice of saving seeds they are no longer dependent on purchasing seeds after each planting and forced to use harmful chemicals to grow their seeds. Through Global Seed Savers education and training programs, Filipino Organic Farmers gain the hands-on skills and knowledge needed to propagate, store, save, and sell their own regionally adapted organic seeds. This enables farmers to be self-sufficient and ensures that organic seeds are more readily available throughout the Philippines. Visit their website to learn more.

GlobalGiving

GlobalGiving connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country around the world. We help local nonprofits access the funding, tools, training, and support they need to become more effective.

Good Food Community

Good Food Community believes that the toxic food system is a story of human disconnection, and fixing it begins with healing this broken relationship. It exists to develop more active, empathetic and structural approaches of helping farmers grow food, thereby growing farmer-eater friendships for healthier communities.

Hand in Hand International Adoptions

Hand In Hand has been offering child welfare services around the globe since 1974. Their mission is to provide the necessary foundations for orphaned children to develop to their fullest potential. Their services are focused on finding them permanent families through adoption, advocating for children’s rights, supporting orphanages, training families and assisting children and communities internationally.

Head Global

Head Global provides high-quality, carefully customized recruitment and business development services to its international development clients around the world. Head Global finds talent specifically tailored to your organization’s unique needs so that you can deliver the best development services for your stakeholders around the world.

Since 2016, Head Global has provided recruitment and business development services to more than 30 international development partners, and worked in more than 60 countries across all continents and in all international development technical sectors.

Whether you need short-term consultants with a specific specialty in business development, project operations, or a niche skill-set; or you need a new long-term staff member in your home office or a project office, Head Global focuses on finding the right fit based on your unique needs. It screens consultants and job seekers based on both their experience and cultural fit, and strives to not only meet your short- or long-term hiring need, but to wow you.

Heart of the West Counseling, LLC

In the United States, Heart of the West provides an array of educational and mental health services to children and their families, adults going through life transitions, nature connection adventures to individual and groups, and well-being consulting to communities. Overseas, Heart of the West consults to communities and organizations in need of early childhood development expertise and trauma-informed best practices. The founder of Heart of the West Counseling also runs The Two Lilies Fund whose mission is : “children in bloom all over the world.

Hope Shines

The mission of Hope Shines is to improve and enhance the lives of impoverished, disadvantaged and marginalized orphans in Rwanda, Africa. We support health and education programs for 150-200 orphans through healthy child initiatives, after-school tutoring programs, and annual summer mentoring camps. Hope Shines offers communities continuous opportunities for empowerment, encouragement, and supplementary education through meaningful activities with strong foreign and local role models. Our approach is to develop and foster relationships at home and abroad with the ultimate goal of maintaining and promoting sustainable programs that improve the lives of the vulnerable and hopeless.

Humanitarian Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

The Humanitarian Engineering program at Colorado School of Mines trains engineers to serve communities by co-creating socially responsible, just and sustainable solutions. Our students are looking to connect with working professionals for career and paid internship opportunities, and each year we bring in over 100 projects for engineering design students to work on. If you have a design-focused project that could benefit from a multi-disciplinary team of students over the course of a single semester or an entire year, please contact us. Our program brings together engineering and social science professors to transform engineering by changing the ways engineers are taught to think, define, and solve problems. We offer two undergraduate minors and a Master’s degree, empower faculty to transform their teaching, bring world class speakers to Mines, and conduct research that addresses some of the biggest challenges facing engineers.

iDE

More than 70 percent of the world’s poorest people are small-scale farmers. For many of them, access to irrigation water provides a substantial productivity gain and increase in food production. iDE views productive water as the entry point to creating income opportunities for these 900 million people. We identify locations where improved access to water can have a positive impact, and then offer affordable technologies for lifting, storing, and distributing that water. iDE also looks for ways to reduce on-farm costs and increase margins available from market access and post-harvest activities.

Impact Advisors

Impact Advisors is a portfolio of projects focused on creating a virtuous and civil society. Its core project is an equity crowdfunding platform (launching 2022) that provides access to capital for entrepreneurs, social enterprises and others seeking to address economic mobility.

Impact Advisors serves organizations focused on many of the UN sustainability goals and loves impact communication projects,
including grant writing, narratives, storytelling, report writing and donor communications.

Impact has successfully directed capital campaigns and a variety of IT projects and one of its favorite new areas of inquiry is nonprofit intrapreneurship.

Impact Advisors is available on a project basis.

Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)

IRMA is a coalition of NGOs, directly affected communities, labor unions, mining companies, purchasers, and investors who have established a high-bar standard to drive more responsible mining: the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining. IRMA oversees the standard and the related system for independent third- party audits and public reporting. Our mission is to protect people and the environment directly affected by mining. We envision a world where the mining industry respects the human rights and aspirations of affected communities, provides safe, healthy and supportive workplaces, minimizes harm to the environment, and leaves positive legacies.

Intercambio

Intercambio brings English learners and community volunteers together in language classes and gatherings to build skills, confidence, and life-changing connections. The organization creates programs, trainings, and curriculum where all participants learn from each other’s experiences and perspectives.

International Association for Rural and Urban Development – IARUD

IARUD’s mission is to eliminate poverty, certain health risks, and improve the overall quality of life, through education. The education efforts focus on the most needful members of West African countries. These are primarily at risk young adults, orphans,underprivileged kids and single mothers who lack the support from a husband.
The efforts are to give general education to the young, vocational training to the older, and household home making skills to the mothers. Sadly, many mothers are never taught such basics as home making skills or some aspects of child care. Education on public health threats such as AIDS and STDs are within the scope of IARUD’s efforts as well.
The purpose of IARUD is to take, any action of general interest that can contribute to the development and progress of rural and urban communities in poor countries particularly and in the world in general.

International Coach Federation of Colorado

ICF-CO is committed to the advancement of professional excellence in coaching. Their mission is to uphold the ICF Code of Ethics and Standards, promote mastery of the ICF Core Competencies, support the health, growth and success of their members, provide educational resources, programming and tools in support of professional excellence, demonstrate the value of professional coaching, engage members to create innovative partnerships and programs, and champion access to professional coaching.

Ipas Partners for Reproductive Justice

Ipas works globally to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception. All people have the right to make fundamental decisions about their own bodies and health. That’s why we work with partners across Africa, Asia and the Americas to ensure that reproductive health services, including abortion and contraception, are available and accessible to all.

Isatou Jeng

Isatou Jeng is a program management and development specialist with over ten years of experience and diverse skills in international development, gender justice, youth development work, human rights advocacy and campaigns in the non-profit sector. She dedicates her life to uplifting women and children to live a dignified life through education, campaigns and advocacy. Jeng advocates for inclusive policies for young people, children and marginalized groups to access resources as a critical requirement for their advancement.

Jabulani Youths for Transformation

Jabulani Youths for Transformation envisions a generation of young people transforming Africa and living up to their lives’ purposes.
A community where everyone is empowered to work with each other to take action and build sustainable solutions for the common challenges.

Their Mission is to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, promote good governance, nurture talents and contribute to environmental conservation.

James Rattling Leaf

James Rattling Leaf, Sr. has over 25 years working with the US Federal Government, higher education institutions, and non-profits to develop and maintain effective working relationships with federally and non-federally recognized American Indian tribes, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Communities. He specializes in developing programs that utilize the interface between Indigenous People’s Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. He sees a greater vision of human knowledge that incorporates the many insights of human cultures and provides a context for our better understanding of the planet and the world.

Jan Cartwright

Throughout Jan Cartwright’s career, she has focused on telling compelling development stories that engage audiences emotionally and intellectually while supporting organizational communications strategies. In Cartwright’s role with USAID’s Partnerships Incubator, she crafts narratives that explore all facets of new USAID partnerships. With over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, Cartwright brings expertise from the private sector, academia, and nonprofits. Cartwright has held communications positions in USAID’s Asia and Middle East Bureaus, under a contract with Engility/IRG, in which she worked closely with USAID outreach staff throughout both regions to develop outreach and communications products for USAID headquarters.

Janina Acevedo-Yates

Jean Jacques Brou

Jean Jacques Brou, MA/BCom is an experienced online community manager, who specializes in public health communication for social and behavior change (SBC). Brou manages a francophone community for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and uses skills in knowledge management, social media management and capacity-strengthening to build a community of over 300 SBC professionals in francophone Africa.

Jeff DePree

Village X​ ​partners​ directly​ with villages in rural ​Africa and​ ​funds​ ​small-scale, high-impact development projects​ ​chosen, partially​ ​financed, and implemented by ​the villages​ themselves​. Donors enjoy a rich philanthropic experience, including live multimedia project updates, and impact analyses, showing how their money makes a difference.

Joe Miklosi

Joe Miklosi has been serving the public and bridging goals in the government, business, and nonprofit sectors in Colorado, Washington, D.C. and around the globe for 27 years. Miklosi believes that combining the time, talent and treasure from the government, business and nonprofit sectors will solve today’s most challenging obstacles. Miklosi’s diverse background includes helping start a software company, serving four years in the Colorado State House of Representatives, running for U.S. Congress in 2012 in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, and working in 35 developing nations on health care and agriculture projects to reduce poverty. He is now the CEO and Founder of Bridge Consulting, a B-Corp.

Kathy Gonzales

Mission: Utilizing customized online conflict education and conflict coaching to help individuals in non-profits and social enterprises increase their organizational impact.

KGSA Foundation

The KGSA Foundation partners with the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) to provide access to free secondary school education for girls living in Kibera, Nairobi – one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. Through financial and other resources, we are facilitating the holistic education of 130 girls every year. KGSA’s academic and extra-curricular programming, with supporting nutrition, healthcare, and mentorship initiatives, unlocks potential, expands opportunities, and enables each student with the ability to shape her future. Together with KGSA, we are working to break the cycle of poverty for the girls and their families, and empower their local community to help create a stronger, more resilient Kibera. We believe local problems need local solutions. We believe in the power of the #girleffect. Since 2006, KGSA has graduated over 340 students and helped 60 pursue higher education.

Kigere Rose/Women Rights Initiative

Women Rights Initiative empowers women and youth to advocate against violence through human rights education and advocacy, harnessing skills, and spreading information to strengthen women and youth’s capacities and visibility.

Konektid

Konektid is a US small business that supports new and established USAID partners on their work with USAID. We support new and underutilized partners to assess their fit for the USAID market, and to design and implement their USAID partnering strategies.

Kramerica Gives

Kramerica Gives was founded in 2015 to provide students with leadership skills and opportunities to empower them to live up to their full potential. High school students from several different schools around the Denver area participate in our four pillars that focus on; Leadership, Community Service, Mentorship, and Scholarships.

Kuda Vana Partnerships

Kuda Vana Partnership empowers the most vulnerable children of Zimbabwe to not just survive, but thrive. Kuda Vana is not your typical orphanage. Our local staff and leadership provide whole-person care to each child, including love, nutrition, security, healthcare, education, life-skills and spiritual and emotional guidance – enabling them to live more independent, dignified, and enriched lives.

Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking

The Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to compel data-driven actions to end human trafficking by conducting research; training service providers, law enforcement and other professionals/first responders; and educating the public. Ours is not a laboratory of beakers and burners, but rather a laboratory for the exchange of ideas and collaboration. We invite you to join the conversation; bring your experience, knowledge, and passions as we work toward solutions!

Lauren Gutierrez

Lauren Gutierrez is a queer, Xicanx abolitionist social worker with a bachelor of science in psychology and is a future graduate of a master’s in social work degree at MSU Denver. Lauren has expertise in creating and supporting non-police public health and safety systems with a background in case management, direct care, training and development, systemic level change, and more. Currently, Lauren is the Director of Community Resilience at the Denver Alliance for Street Health Response and a service provider/consultant for the Denver Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) Network. In these roles, Lauren has created a mobile case management program for people in Denver who are experiencing homelessness, strengthens community services through the STAR Network, and creates/supports alternatives to policing and jails.

Leah Fenimore

Leah earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Colorado State University. She focused her early career in cause areas within the international development sector in Tanzania ranging from leading a wildlife conservation fieldwork team focused on elephant protection, teaching hard sciences (biology and physics), and wildlife conservation education in primary and secondary schools, designing community development projects, and finally, raising funds and awareness to provide clean water to rural areas. Leah’s work in Tanzania culminated in an independent effort to co-found Pure Water Joy (PWJ), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working towards providing clean water to villages in need.  PWJ has since become a locally led social enterprise focused on alleviating poverty in Mbeya, Tanzania. Once Leah was certain that her Tanzanian partner and the local community could continue operations on their own, she shifted her role from organizational leader to philanthropic support and mentorship.

Leah has decided to return to her scientific roots and is preparing to apply to a masters in Genetic Counseling. She is looking forward to contributing to the science community, serving patients and the greater global health community of clinicians, and continuing to develop her interests in international philanthropy.

Lindsay Miller

Beyond Growth Strategies is a Denver-based community and economic development consulting firm that specializes in community-based wealth-building, inclusive real estate development, and economic development that transcends the mantra, “Growth = Good.” We believe that investment and development are essential to addressing social and economic inequality, but both must be carefully planned and implemented. We approach all of our projects with the ultimate goals of social equity, long-term environmental sustainability, and widespread economic prosperity in mind. Our services include project management consulting, policy analysis and research, and program evaluation and development.

Literacy Coalition of Colorado

The Literacy Coalition of Colorado is a resource for adult education in Colorado. We are an INFORMATION HUB for adults to find classes (GED prep, ESL, Citizenship prep), for volunteers to find opportunities, and for adult education providers to network. We TRAIN volunteers and TEACH adult learners. We DEVELOP CURRICULUM accessible to early-literacy adults. We have a learner-centered vision: To ensure that adult education is available to all who seek it.

Locally Haiti

Locally Haiti believes in Haitian leadership and Haitian vision, investing in locally-led programs and community-based work. Locally Haiti’s integrated initiatives are designed to support economic development and the overall health and well-being of families in the Nippes region of rural Haiti. Locally Haiti supports efforts in education, agriculture and conservation, community health, and girls’ empowerment.

Lubang Alex Charles

Lubang Alex Charles has more than nine years of experience in education, health, administration and finance. Currently, Lubang is serving as a Finance Assistant at an international medical organization where he ensures accuracy and compliance with financial procedures. He is also a critical writer and an advocate for good governance and democracy. Lubang holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting and Finance from Mount Meru University; a diploma in Registered Nursing from Catholic Health Training Institute; and a Diploma in Education from Kyambogo University (Uganda).
Lubang is currently in the process of establishing a community-based organization called Yei Education Support for Girls (YES-GIRLS), an initiative aimed at reducing the high rate of out-of-school children especially among teenage girls.

Macs Adventure

The leading self-guided walking and cycling specialist, Macs Adventure, offers over 600 exciting self-guided trips to 40 countries worldwide. Carefully planned itineraries are crafted by passionate travel enthusiasts who love sharing the secrets that make unforgettable travel moments.

MAIA

MAIA (formerly Starfish) unlocks and maximizes the potential of young women to lead transformational change. The program targets girls who are otherwise unable to continue their studies beyond the 6th grade and empowers each to become a “Girl Pioneer” who trail-blazes an unprecedented trajectory. Through an integrated approach, MAIA is educating and empowering the next generation of indigenous female leaders in Guatemala. MAIA operates the Impact School, a secondary school for girls that serves as a regional innovation platform for best-practices in girl-focused programming. MAIA is defined by its abundance-mindset, powerful local team, and responsive design. We believe that by combining our holistic mentorship program with a rigorous academic model, our Girl Pioneers will truly be able to realize their infinite impact.

Mara Steinhaus

WomenStrong International finds, funds, strengthens, and shares women-driven solutions that will transform lives in urban communities. Partners start by listening to women, who know best what they need, and bring these partner organizations together in a Learning Lab, to develop, test, sharpen, and disseminate solutions. Through collective learning and sharing, WomenStrong is building a global community of organizations better equipped to advance the rights and wellbeing of women and girls.

Marisa Kellogg

Marisa is a trilingual International Development Professional specializing in youth and women’s empowerment. She received her MS in Global Studies and International Relations from Northeastern University, and BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the President of PridePads Africa, an international nonprofit that focuses on menstrual health and hygiene, girls’ education and women’s economic empowerment in rural Cameroon. Marisa deeply understands the need to invest in women and girls and amplify their voices to strengthen communities and achieve a sustainable and just world.

MarketShare Associates

MarketShare Associates partners with businesses, development agencies, and donors alike to address the most pressing barriers to equitable economic development. We help clients facilitate positive change by unlocking creative ideas, building local capability, enhancing learning systems and securing sustainable results. We see working with partners that operate (or seek to operate) as market facilitators and catalysts to improve market systems and empower people to take advantage of economic opportunities, as the most effective agents of lasting change.

Mary Cippolone

Mary is dedicated to making work work better for humanity. Her values of authenticity, community, and fun fuel Big Onion Partnerships. Mary has worked alongside inspiring communities in Harlem, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, and most recently served as Executive Director of the Heart & Hand Center in Denver. As an experienced CEO, Mary understands the joys and challenges of leading people and companies. She is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to cultivate the layers of resilience essential for sustainability. Mary finds joy frolicking outdoors, dancing to live music, and connecting with friends and family.

Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey – MIIS

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies is a graduate school and training ground for developing and implementing practical solutions. It is a home to some of the world’s leading experts who will be your mentors, teaching you how to take your education and experience and make the difference you want in the world. MIIS offers master’s degrees in international development, policy, environment, trade, security, translation, localization, and language teaching.

Minnesota International NGO Network

Founded in the spring of 2005, The Minnesota International NGO Network serves to connect all international humanitarian and development practitioners and supporters based in Minnesota through education, networking, and information resources. Whether you are new to the world of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or a seasoned veteran, MINN is your forum to connect with colleagues and stay aware of what other NGOs based in Minnesota are doing around the world.

Moore Philanthropy

Moore Philanthropy connects passionate donors of wealth to solution-oriented changemakers to help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We believe that sustainable impact comes from understanding and working in connection and in collaboration with the communities directly impacted by some of the world’s most intractable problems. We work closely with donors to identify issues that resonate most deeply with their personal values and ethos; helping them identify specific goals and a giving strategy to achieve the most lasting and sustainable change.

Morrow

At Morrow, our vision is for a Whole Economy, one in which our systems are responsive to the needs, potential, and dignity of all people. To get there, the member and partners in Morrow invest in companies generating returns and creating products, services, and cultures that are additive to their communities.

Over the next decade, the members and partners of Morrow will launch another 20K+ startups. This is in addition to the 21K+ startups they’ve launched over the last decade.

We at Morrow wake up every day to empower them.

Mwebaza Foundation, Inc

The Mwebaza Foundation’s mission is to enrich the relationships among our Colorado and Uganda partner schools through cross-cultural exchange and service-learning that enhances educational opportunities, fosters a healthy learning environment, and promotes self-sufficiency.

Needle & Frame

Needle & Frame is a filmmaking + arts collective that builds solidarity, unites communities, and inspires courageous action toward positive social transformation. They are reimagining how production companies tell and share stories as an inclusive, equitable, just, and ethical community of artists and storytellers who create meaningful projects rooted in activism and deep intention.

Needle & Frame collaborates with nonprofit organizations and socially conscious businesses to build their communities and amplify their work through creative storytelling processes. They work with their clients to ensure fair and accessible rates. Needle & Frame’s tailored consulting meets the unique needs, strengths, resources, and talents of their clients, weaving in participatory filmmaking methods and community-driven approaches. Their consulting offerings provide a meaningful and empowering experience for their clients that leaves them with an inspiring story they can share with their communities for fundraising, advocacy, and/or educational purposes.

NIVAS

NIVAS helps families in Nepal build capacity and autonomy through the process of home ownership. From advocating for land acquisition, to learning earthquake resilient construction techniques, to setting bricks, each step is a move toward stability and safety.

NovoVigeo Consulting

NovoVigeo is a strategy, development, and transformation consultancy. We enable clients to be more effective, achieve transformation, and deliver even greater mission impact. We do this by helping them cultivate strategy, culture, and change superpowers enabling relevance, results, and resilience – making employees, organizations, and communities better. NovoVigeo works across the private, public, academic, and nonprofit sectors; and we get even more excited when working with them all at once on a collective impact initiative. We have a special passion for supporting mission-driven organizations including international nongovernmental and faith-based efforts advancing education, social entrepreneurship and innovation, social justice, and humanitarian and medical relief, among others.

OMNI Institute

The OMNI Institute is a 501c(3) non-profit social science consultancy that accelerates positive social change by supporting the public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors with integrated research and evaluation, capacity building, and data utilization services.

One Earth Future Foundation

One Earth Future (OEF) is an incubator of innovative peace-building programs. OEF designs, tests and partners to scale programs that work hand-in-hand with communities to eliminate the root causes of war. Each of the programs in the OEF portfolio has been designed and iteratively tested to work for a sustainable solution to a specific problem, while gathering and sharing lessons learned about cooperative governance with sister programs and external partners more broadly. Whether working with networks of multi-sector collaborators to support grassroots coalitions in Colombia, connecting Somali businesses to lenders abroad, or working toward cooperative solutions to maritime security, One Earth Future is committed to its vision of sustainable peace through collaboration and cooperative governance.

OpenTent

OpenTent is a Salesforce consulting partner for nonprofits and purpose-driven teams. We help organizations answer more questions and tell better stories by creating a living, shared source of truth about their work. Our team forms a highly collaborative long-term relationship with our clients, powering sustainable system success and enabling our clients to better identify, measure, and improve what matters.

Orkeeswa

Through accessible, high-quality, community-based education and leadership development, Orkeeswa cultivates thoughtful decision-makers and creative problem-solvers prepared to achieve their own vision for impact. Using the community as a classroom, we invest in student-centered, skills-based learning for young people at three critical points: 1) Orkeeswa Outreach utilizes trained and motivated Orkeeswa student and alumni leaders to run holistic programming in local primary schools; 2) Orkeeswa School provides high-quality academics, robust co-curricular programs, student wellness services, and community-based leadership through a holistic secondary school experience; and 3) Orkeeswa Incubator supports the ongoing impact of alumni through professional development, higher education scholarships, and small grants and mentorship for entrepreneurs.

Otisa Eads

Otisa Eads is an HR & Systems Strategist Consultant to help established business owners create systems that optimize their business for growth and expansion. In addition, Otisa loves creating strategies with start-ups, nonprofits, and business owners who want to expand their choices with new aligned and effective solutions to the problems in their business. In her HR expertise, she specializes in creating strategies, on-boarding systems, and leadership development coaching & training. Otisa is passionate about organizational culture and DEIJ when she is working with clients and speaking at events.

Oury Law, LLC

Oury LLC is a next generation law firm focused on enabling technology organizations that have a central mission to propel international social impact. James Oury has joined the Posner Community to provide legal expertise to our Tenants and Members.

Patty Breech

The Purpose Collective is a digital marketing consulting firm with extensive experience in the nonprofit world. It knows that the average nonprofit professional is passionate about their cause, but also facing limits on staff, time, and money. The Purpose Collective can help tell your story online in a way that creates more engaged supporters, so that you have more time to focus on your mission, and can provide social media, email marketing, web design, and database services.

Paul Adkins

Paul Adkins joined Management Sciences for Health (MSH) as a Security and Compliance Specialist in November of 2022. MSH is a global nonprofit advisory organization that provides governments, health organizations, and the private sector with strategies, tools, and management support to effectively and efficiently deliver high-functioning health systems. As a Safety & Security Specialist, Adkins works closely with local staff in over 20 countries around the world to help ensure the safety of MSH staff as they travel to partner countries to implement MSH’s projects.

Peak Creative

Peak Creative is a collection of artists, planners, and builders dedicated to design with purpose—informing, increasing awareness, and building relevance.

Peter Stansbery

Peter Stansbery is a young professional who has worked in the international development industry for the past three years. Although Hansbery is still early in his career, he would happy to provide trainings or share best practices on his experience implementing projects across the globe. These could include trainings on procurement, project management or thematic topics, such as how to develop programming for political party strengthening, independent media, youth participation through sports and legislative strengthening, among others.

Pious Musonda

Pious Musonda is a fifth year medical student at the Copperbelt University in Zambia. He is passionate about AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) and is currently enrolled in a program run by Student’s against Superbugs training young students from around africa to be AMR Ambassador. He is also passionate about public speaking and has served in the Debate Society at his institution where he has been part of several training of fellow students on public speaking. He recently spoke at the 2022 Posner Center Symposium on a panel regarding public speaking in post colonial Africa.

Pushpa Iyer

Dr. Pushpa Iyer (she/her/hers) is an activist, scholar, and practitioner in conflict resolution, diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is currently an associate professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California. She is passionate about social justice, which she understands as navigating and managing social change through creative approaches.

Ramon Balderrama Sanchez

Ramon Balderrama Sanchez’s overarching mission is to provide people the tools they need to broadcast their authentic self to their intended audience using the power of still images and video.

Range of Motion Project (ROMP)

The Range of Motion Project (ROMP) is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the mobility of people with amputation. ROMP realizes its mission by providing high-quality prosthetic care, follow-up services, community-based rehabilitation, and product innovation through its permanent operations. Since 2005, ROMP has delivered over 4,200 custom-made prosthetic devices in Guatemala, Ecuador, and the U.S., and conducted over 11,000 patient visits. In the next three years, ROMP plans to expand to new areas in Ecuador and Guatemala to serve the most vulnerable people with limb loss. Visit their website to learn more or help advance their mission.

ReachWell

ReachWell is equitable community engagement. It provides an accessible platform for families and providers to easily engage one another. With ReachWell, families have access to the academic and social assistance tools and resources they require to support their students’ learning needs, to enhance their overall well-being, and to have their voices heard in their communities. Schools and non-profits effectively connect with families regardless of language, literacy, technical ability, or income.

Regis University MDP

The Regis Master of Development Practice is an innovative degree program backed by a fully accredited, 140-year-old Jesuit university, and imbued with the real-life experience of its working-practitioner faculty and students and the Posner network.  Live video-conference classes bring people from all over the world together in a continual process of discovery that yields truly global approaches to development challenges. Regis MDP grads collaborate effectively with a range of development actors from an integrated, inter-sectoral and global perspective to facilitate creative, holistic, development solutions, ranging well beyond the silo of any single expertise.

RENEW Capital

The vision of RENEW Capital is to change the way the world engages Africa—from a place of giving to one of investing. Renew Capital invests capital into African opportunity while building the ecosystems and infrastructure needed to make these investments possible.

Richard Chama

A skilled medical student who is also a vocal proponent of mental health and sustainable development, Richard Chama is a peer educator and volunteer who is eager to assist the community in addressing important issues related to health and education. He is also a podcast host for Men with Pure Intentions.

Robbie Hodgson

Robbie Hodgson is the Knowledge Management Specialist for the USAID-funded Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program, implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH). In his current role, Robbie fosters knowledge exchange, enables organizational learning, conceptualizes technical documentation, and provides project management support. Prior to joining MTaPS and MSH, Robbie worked in COVID-19 surveillance, tracing, and response at the Virginia Department of Health. In this role, Robbie led a large team of case investigators in meeting the epidemiological needs of the Blue Ridge Health District, one of Virginia’s premier health zones.

Rooted Wisdom Africa (Formerly Into Your Hands-Africa)

Rooted Wisdom Africa, formerly Into Your Hands Africa, works in rural Uganda, where community members live on less than 49 cents per day. The organization strives to interrupt this cycle of poverty by working with local leaders to implement education and business development programs (with a primary focus on agriculture). While many organizations depend on an influx of foreign workers and investment, Rooted Wisdom knows that communities want to create value and improve their circumstances – they help them start that journey.

Since its inception, Rooted Wisdom has worked with local partners to send students to school, nurture local leaders, provide skills-based training, and facilitate sustainable enterprise projects as requested by the communities we serve. Their commitment is to create and sustain positive economic change by galvanizing the resources, and support communities need to succeed and cultivating a sense of ownership over both programs and their futures. Where they work, each region is considered its own ecosystem in which resources are shared, community participation is encouraged, exit strategies are developed, and impact is illustrated on a larger scale, allowing communities, with a jumpstart from their support, to take a systems approach to poverty alleviation and ultimately bring about corresponding positive changes in education and economic self-sufficiency.

Roots of Development

Roots of Development is a nonprofit organization that supports and advocates for a more sustainable approach to development around the world. We believe in a world in which the very communities living in poverty are the ones leading the fight against it; a world in which impoverished communities decide their own future and manage their own development.

Rotary Club of Five Points, Denver

RPCK Rastegar Panchal

RPCK Rastegar Panchal is an international boutique law firm focused on providing highly-tailored and innovative solutions to social impact investors, large family offices, investment funds, public charities, private foundations, entrepreneurs and growth enterprises around the world. Our subject matter experts span corporate law and governance, corporate finance, intellectual property, employment law, employee benefits, mergers and acquisitions and litigation and are united in our mission to co-create and facilitate the launch of scalable and investible solutions to effect meaningful social and environmental change.

Rural Community Assistance Corporation

RCAC creates opportunities in rural communities through training, consulting, financing, and advocacy. We build local partnerships to ensure rural communities have safe, affordable drinking water, waste disposal, and other infrastructure; provide quality affordable housing for lower income residents; have access to economic opportunity; and are guided by well-trained leaders who access knowledge, technical, and financial resources to make sound decisions. Headquartered in West Sacramento, CA, RCAC serves 13 western states and the Western Pacific and partners with government entities, nonprofits, and tribal organizations in communities with populations of 50,000 or less.

Ruth Brodeen

As the Executive Director of India Transformed, Ruth Brodeen has a deep passion for providing marginalized communities with opportunities that will bring socio- economic transformation through self development, training and education. India Transformed is all about Education for Today, Hope for Tomorrow and Faith for Eternity. Their programs educate children, empower women and equip communities to reach their God-given potential.

Ryan Fila

Ryan Fila’s main goal is to approach life from a place of love, and allow the expressions to grow from that place. Right now, the expressions come through as creative storytelling, curated community gatherings, and marketing. Over the past few years, Fila has been blessed to tell stories of beautiful souls in Haiti, Ukraine, Colombia, Kenya, and Perú through photo and video. Through this community, he is really excited to meet and drop-in with other service focused humans.

Shadhika

Shadhika provides funding and support to women-led, locally controlled non-profits in India working to empower at-risk girls so that they — and India – can realize their aspirations for a better future. We seek to break the cycle of poverty and address gender inequality in India by investing in the education, empowerment and economic self-sufficiency of girls.

Soccer Without Borders

Soccer Without Borders uses soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing newcomer refugee, asylee, immigrant, and marginalized youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success. SWB programs integrate soccer, education, and community to empower youth to become positive change agents in their community, with national and international programs serving thousands of youth annually. Our programs help youth develop resilience, leadership, and life skills within the context of a strong, supportive network of peers and caring adults.

Society for International Development (SID-US)

The Society for International Development’s Washington Chapter (SID-Washington) brings diverse constituencies together to debate critical ideas, innovations, policies and practices, advancing equitable development. SID-Washington is the largest and most active SID chapter, an international network founded in 1957 to serve as a global forum dedicated to sustainable economic, social and political development. Through the locally-driven programs of our member organizations and individuals, the majority of whom work on the front lines of development, we are uniquely positioned to inform and promote more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable international development.  SID’s network includes chapters and individual members in more than 50 countries. The Secretariat has offices in Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), and Rome (Italy).

Solar Energy International

Solar Energy International (SEI) is one of the oldest renewable energy training organizations in the United States. Founded in 1991, as a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization, our mission is to provide industry-leading technical training and expertise in renewable energy to empower people, communities and businesses worldwide. The Spanish Program at SEI offers comprehensive hands on, and online trainings in how to design, install and maintain solar photovoltaic systems. The program aims to facilitate the expansion of sustainable sources of energy and to create greater access to electricity for communities in the USA and Latin America.

Space for Humanity

Space for Humanity (S4H) is working to expand the global perspective as the first non-profit gateway to space. Our mission is to democratize access to space by providing all expenses paid trips — where anyone, from any walk of life, can apply for an opportunity to experience the Overview Effect: the cognitive shift in awareness that occurs when a human being looks down on the Earth from space. Upon their return, each citizen astronaut will share that experience through a social impact ambassadorship with their communities and beyond. Through this unique program, we believe that we can generate creative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable problems.

Street Business School

Street Business School is a leader in global training. They are on a mission to end extreme poverty by empowering women as entrepreneurs. Street Business School teaches other organizations, through their unique social franchise model, how to implement their proven and effective business training.  Street Business School’s world-class and world-changing model will help 1 million people lift themselves from poverty by 2027. 

Sustainable Development Strategies Group

The Sustainable Development Strategies Group (SDSG) is an independent nonprofit research institute advancing best practices for sustainable management of renewable energy and natural resources. We use research, practice, and teaching to provide guidance to communities, companies, and governments on law and policy frameworks that advance best practices for sustainable energy and natural resource development. Our vision is a future where resource development respects human rights, aligns with the economic and social objectives of local communities, and protects the natural environment.

Syah B. Consulting / Deep Dive DEI, LLC

Syah B. Consulting is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion service organization aimed to equip leaders with the skill to revolutionize their workplace culture to be more empowering, sustainable, and effective for all team members. Through our Deep Dive DEI modality, they create transformative experiences that will challenge participants to integrate social justice concepts and empathy skills into their personal and professional lives.

Sydney Jackson-Clockston/Citrine Unlimited

Sydney Jackson-Clockston is a Leadership & Entrepreneurial Coach, DEI Consultant, Public Speaker, and Author. She owns Citrine Unlimited LLC and works part-time as an Entrepreneurial Trainer and Coach with Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute. Sydney loves volunteering with youth and her mission is to use her business as a tool to empower and mobilize clients.

Sydney’s/Citrine Unlimited LLC’s values are: Transformation, Honesty, Sustainability & Restoration, Joy, Community, Equity & Accessibility.

Tearfund USA

In partnership with churches and communities, Tearfund is working on the frontlines of some of the most urgent issues in the world today. We respond to crises and conflict, advance sustainable development, and advocate for just policies and practice.

TGTHR / Emma McKay

Emma is the Data Coordinator for TGTHR – a nonprofit in Boulder that is building a movement that galvanizes communities, empowers young people, and puts an end to youth homelessness. TGTHR runs several programs for young people experiencing homelessness in Boulder County (including 3 street outreach programs, an overnight and daily drop in emergency shelter, a transitional living program, and a permanent supportive housing apartment complex), and it is planning on expanding to Denver and Fort Collins in the near future. Emma manages TGTHR’s Salesforce platform, and analyzes data for grant applications, and monitoring and evaluation.

Before working for TGTHR, Emma was a community economic development volunteer for Peace Corps Senegal, and she graduated from CSU with her MBA in Global, Social & Sustainable Enterprise in December, 2020.

The Carter Center

The Carter Center is guided by the principles of our Founders, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Founded, in partnership with Emory University, on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering, the Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.

The Chijnaya Foundation

The Chijnaya Foundation works in partnership with rural communities in southern Peru to design and implement self-sustaining projects in health, education, and economic development. We believe in a community-led, integrated approach that emphasizes local leadership and prioritizes working with communities long term on a diverse set of projects. 

The Montibon Company

The Montibon Company (TMC) provides marketing and communications consulting for scientists, researchers and environmental and social justice organizations to maximize social impact, produce effective messaging, expand audiences and realize their vision. This includes strategic identity and brand development.

Roy Montibon is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, corporate executive, designer, educator and community organizer with over 20 years experience assembling and directing teams to realize complex national and international projects. Clients include educational institutions, Fortune 1000 corporations, major consulting firms, science-based start ups, arts organizations, state and municipal governments and non-profits. He recently earned a Graduate Certificate in Social Justice from Harvard/HES and is currently a Master’s Candidate (ALM) in Anthropology at Harvard University with an emphasis on Technology, Indigeneity and Human Rights. Montibon is currently developing high-tech authenticity and provenance systems to combat counterfeiting and international fraud against Indigenous artists.

He has taught at UCLA, UC Irvine and Chapman University and helped grow the UCLA Extension Media Arts program into the leading program in the nation during the ’90’s. Montibon has produced and directed a number of international design symposia at UCLA and UC Irvine and has taught and mentored over 6,000 undergrads, graduate students and working professionals. In Downtown Los Angeles, Montibon founded what became the largest and most successful art walk in the nation. He currently runs the Entrepreneurs for Social Impact program at United World College USA, one of the top IB schools in the world. UWC was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize—twice in three years.. He has been engaged in successful Public Policy work and has served on the Governor’s Policy Council for Food, Hunger and Agriculture and on the NM First Food, Hunger, Water, Agriculture Policy Workgroup in New Mexico.

The Road to Hope

The Road to Hope builds self-sustaining communities through partnering with individuals and organizations in the U.S. and Haiti to learn and build mutually supportive relationships. We believe in bridging the distance between communities globally, which is why we partner with communities throughout the U.S. and Haiti to provide in-person and digital cultural experiences and outreach for students, community leaders, musicians and other interested parties. We invest in food, agriculture, education, music, the arts, and water and sanitation programs in the communities we serve.

The Sarara Foundation

The Sarara Foundation is building sustainable communities for the next generation by working with indigenous communities in East Africa to integrate solutions across five areas of life: Education, Healthcare, Food & Water, Energy, and Communications.
The partnership between The Sarara Foundation and The Association Montessori Internationale has designed, developed and piloted the world’s first nomadic Montessori program.

The Suddes Group – For Impact

We help you tell your STORY, develop TALENT, and FUND your VISION!

The Village Institute

The Village Institute is a holistic family support center for refugee and immigrant families in Northwest Aurora that helps families build wealth, worth, and wellbeing by bringing family advocacy, resource navigation, career readiness training, mental health services, early childhood education, and community-building events all under one roof. Its mission is to cultivate a multigenerational ecosystem which uplifts the power of refugee and immigrant families and brings them closer with their neighbors.

The Women’s Bakery

The Women’s Bakery is an education-centric social enterprise committed to empowering women and developing women-owned businesses. TWB works to improve nutrition and socio-economic standing of women across East Africa. TWB offers 185+ hours of business, baking and life skills training, access to resources, start-up capital, and on-going support to develop local bakeries.

Third Sight Strategies

We provide a suite of comprehensive and sustainable capacity building services to nonprofits, NGOs, cities, and municipalities to help organizations expand the impact of their mission, and reach their true potential. Services include: Strategic Planning & Organizational Development; Resource Mobilization & Sustainability; Program Evaluation/Development/Expansion; Nonprofit Startup; CSR Development.

Through a three-pronged approach that combines evaluation (Hindsight), assessment (Insight), and strategy development (Foresight), we develop well-informed, collaborative and often bold pathways to sustainable growth and improved outcomes.

Founder and Lead Consultant, Lauren Palumbo contributes 20 years of nonprofit and international development experience.  She is driven by an insatiable desire to disrupt the status quo, and believes the best solutions come through curious, collaborative pursuit of that disruption.

Tigist Mehabie

Tigist Mehabie has more than 10 years of experience as a senior public prosecutor and legal drafting expert. She currently leads the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law Implementation Project Office, under the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia.

Tigist obtained her bachelor of laws degree from Haramaya University, Ethiopia in 2009 and her Master of Laws Degree, from the University of Barcelona, International Economic Law and Policy Program (IELPO) in 2015. Mehabie is also a 2022 Mandela Washington fellow.

As part of the office of the Federal Attorney General, now known as the Ministry of Justice, Mehabie led a major effort in overhauling the Criminal Procedure Code which has been in place since 1960. She has been one of the only woman experts tasked with drafting the new Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law.

During the past few years, Tigist saw the finalization of the drafting task, and adoption by the Council of Ministers. As the coordinator of the drafting team, she takes great pride in the finalization of the drafting task.

Together With Tanzania

Together With Tanzania partners with local Tanzanian organizations to assess and meet needs of the community and individuals. Current areas of focus include women’s issues, economic development and business entrepreneur training.

Trees, Water & People

At Trees, Water & People, our mission is to improve lives by helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage their natural resources.

Uhambo

Uhambo supports children with disabilities in southern Africa by partnering with the Uhambo Foundation (South Africa). Uhambo employs a holistic approach by serving children with disabilities, their parents, families, caregivers and communities to reduce inequality and create social inclusion.

UNICEF USA

Over eight decades, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has built an unprecedented global support system for the world’s children. UNICEF relentlessly works day in and day out to deliver the essentials that give every child an equitable chance in life: health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. UNICEF USA advances the global mission of UNICEF by rallying the American public to support the world’s most vulnerable children. Together, we have meaningfully improved more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization.

University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs – Career Development/Admissions/Alumni Relations

As the top-ranked public affairs school in Colorado and among the best in the nation, CU Denver School of Public Affairs is creating the next generation of visionary leaders. Our downtown Denver location provides unprecedented access to a diverse urban environment where policy becomes practice. Our online courses give students flexibility and choices that fit their lifestyles. Our faculty’s expertise makes us a go-to resource for state and national policy makers, and for students who have a vision for a better future. The School of Public Affairs prepares the next generation of leaders in public service and criminal justice professions to solve society’s most pressing problems. Working together, faculty, staff and students also conduct research that improves the quality of life and informs policy making and management in the public and nonprofit sectors.

University of Colorado-Denver, Institute for International Business

University of Colorado (CU) Denver’s Institute for International Business (IIB) serves as the center for the advanced study and teaching of International Business at the University of Colorado. It is also home to CU Denver’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), a national center of excellence in international business education.

University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies

The Josef Korbel Office of Career and Professional Development deploys a depth of experience and knowledge to help our students develop the career tools they need to succeed.

We seek to enhance career success by providing: Professional development through career coaching and targeted skills development training. Career education through courses, workshops and events and resources. Opportunities for connections between students, alumni and employers through targeted and proactive marketing and relationship management.

Up With Africa

Up with Africa focuses on the intersection of three issues- education in the developing world, refugees and the forced mass migration of people, and conservation of endangered species in Africa. Our approach involves coming alongside people and their communities to provide greater understanding of the problems at play and form networks to source solutions.

Upstream Education Inc.

Launched in 2016, Upstream Education’s mission is to make it as easy as possible to equip educators and students with the tools they need to reduce anxiety, strengthen resilience, and increase well-being. Upstream addresses the constraints of academic schedules through 93+ bite-sized, 5-10 minute lessons that come with scripts and matching presentations. As a Tier 1 intervention and proactive approach to mental health, Upstream reaches all students in a school building with teachers and support staff delivering and integrating the tools within classes, advisories, small groups, one-on-one, and even staff meetings. Upstream is partnered with 60+ districts and schools. 70% of Upstream students experienced a reduction in their stress and statistically significant reduction in their anxiety learning just one tool-per-week.

Urban Peak

Urban Peak ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives. It provides a full range of programs and services that helps youth experiencing homelessness in the Denver metro area and puts them on a path toward self-sufficiency. Urban Peak’s services include street outreach, daytime respite space, overnight shelter, housing, support services, and Peak Thrift, a social enterprise thrift store. Its vision is for all Colorado youth to have safe housing, supportive relationships, and the opportunity for self-sufficiency and success.

Wartburg College West

Wartburg College West is a Denver-based, experiential, urban semester program for college students from Wartburg College (Waverly, IA) and associated partner colleges. Through experiential learning in an urban setting, students clarify their personal values and professional goals and explore urban issues such as social justice, sustainability, global issues, and more. As part of the Denver program, students participate in summer-long or semester-long internships for academic credit and engage in academic and community-based work. Wartburg College is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning. Wartburg College is called to be the leading institution in education of the whole person. Together, we create an inclusive community combining diverse curricular and co-curricular experiences to prepare students to be resilient leaders of positive change through service in a complex world.

Water For People

Water For People works to build a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease. We work with people and partners to develop innovative and long-lasting solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene problems in the developing world. We strive to continually improve, to experiment with promising new ideas, and to leverage resources to multiply our impact.

Women’s Voices For The Earth

The mission of Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) is to amplify women’s voices to eliminate the toxic chemicals that harm our health and communities. WVE imagines a world where the earth is taken care of, workers are paid well and treated fairly, and there are no toxic chemicals in homes, communities, or the environment. In this world, every point in the cycle of production and consumption – from extraction, to processing, to use, to disposal – contributes not just to a less toxic world, but to a thriving world. 

World Trade Center Denver

World Trade Center Denver is a business network and services organization dedicated exclusively to the international business success of companies based in Colorado and the surrounding Rocky Mountain region. 

WorldDenver

To strengthen and expand the community of engaged global citizens and organizations in Colorado through education, cross-cultural exchange, and personal interaction with international leaders, professionals and students.

Zero Dropouts

Zero Dropouts (ZD) is inspired by the remarkable potential of youth. We are an educational social enterprise grounded in the belief that all students have the ability to be successful in education and life. In collaboration with school districts and community partners, ZD offers comprehensive, custom-fit services that assist students in high school completion as well as provide a bridge to post-secondary opportunities.