Our community is the heart of what we do. We are representative of the greater field of global development, including nonprofit organizations both large and small, private enterprises, university departments, consultants, service providers, and individuals engaged with global development issues. We number close to 200 and we are engaged in work in over 100 countries, encompassing all sectors and approaches to development work.

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Accion

Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financial inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. Our mission is to give people the financial tools they need to improve their lives and build resilience when its more important than ever.
We take an integrated approach to financial inclusion, partnering with local institutions to transform financial markets. We do this through influencing, investing, and advising.

Website: https://www.accion.org/Countries: Global Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

ADD International

The movement for disability equality is powered by the drive, vision and courage of disability activists; They have the passion to fight for change.

It’s their lives and their communities at stake. What they often need are the tools and resources to run effective organisations. That’s where ADD International comes in.
ADD International supports the global disability rights movement by supporting activists, building movements and influencing for change. They improve the way we work with organisations of people with disabilities by becoming a participatory-grant maker, to give more power and resources to disabled people working for change.

Website: https://add.org.uk/Countries: Global Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Adeline Paige

A recent Economics and Government graduate of Colby College with interest in international development and international trade, Adeline Paige has work and research experience in data analytics and economic development. Paige seeks to leverage her curiosity and collaboration skills to become an engaged member of the Posner community.

Countries: China, India, Netherlands, South Africa, United States Organization Type: Business Services

Alejandra Soto

Alejandra Soto is a bilingual, highly motivated international professional and project coordinator with +8 years of experience from NGOs, USAID, and the private sector. Her last years of experience include the support in the design, implementation, oversight, monitoring, and evaluation of crime and violence prevention projects focused on youth in Mexico, grants management, and the development of public-private partnerships. In addition, her knowledge and experience include international cooperation, public policy, higher education, democracy, good governance, rule of law, public administration, e-government, human rights, and women’s empowerment. Expert in managing and securing relationships with private sector companies and liaising and collaborating with multiple stakeholders in government, civil society, and academia, she is seeking a position in an international development organization that addresses current global challenges such as environmental, economic, social, sustainable peace, rule of law, gender equality, and the strengthening of governance to create better opportunities for marginalized populations, but especially for women and girls.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-soto-52b20b19/Countries: Caribbean, Mexico, South America Organization Type: Individual

Alex Grossman

Alex is the Senior Communications Officer at Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights. Alex has experience managing communications in the social justice and philanthropic spaces. She has a background in indigenous rights, women’s rights, and environmental policy. Alex previously developed communications content and strategy for Global Greengrants Fund, The Center of Effective Global Action at U.C. Berkeley, and The Climate Reality Project. Alex has a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Boston University and a B.A. in International Relations and Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Philanthropy or Funding

Alison Suthers

Alison Suthers is a practicing attorney with experience in criminal law and procedure and an interest in immigration issues. Alison is also a Masters in Development Practice (MDP) 2024 candidate at Regis University. She is also a board member of FLuME Foundation (focused on education in India) and the Congo Relief Mission board member (focused on children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-suthers-25b8471/Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, India Organization Type: Individual

Amir Sadafi

Amir Sadafi’s most recent professional experience is in the field of international higher education, where his efforts were focused on supporting promising young scholars around the developing world. Delivering programming in over 65 countries, he has helped thousands of students by connecting them to funding opportunities to enable them to access educational opportunities in the US. Amir has extensive experience in international programing, working in the field of peacebuilding and grassroots social, environmental, and political advocacy in Senegal, Togo, Thailand, Syria, Palestine and the UK. Amir holds an MSc in Middle East Politics with a focus on gender and conflict from SOAS, University of London.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Andrea Altman

a Certified Project Manager with 10+ years of experience building and implementing long-term plans, strategies, and processes across organizations to magnify social impact, Andrea Altman cares about people and about putting good into the world. Altman thrives on supporting cross-functional teams that are working towards a common goal. When people feel valued they can do their best work, and that is when BIG change is truly possible.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Andrea Nelson Trice

Andrea earned her doctorate in Higher and Adult Education from The University of Michigan and worked for several years as a faculty member at Purdue University. Over the past two decades she has gained experience as an internal and external evaluator, nonprofit board member, consultant, and author. Her consulting and evaluation work with nonprofits and social enterprises has included a variety of clients: Northwestern University, Hope International, Resource Global, Compassion International, National Academy of Sciences, and National Science Foundation.
Andrea enjoys helping organizations gather actionable data and wrestle with their implications, as well as the challenge of measuring such abstract outcomes as hope, dignity, and spiritual growth. Andrea’s forthcoming book, Harnessing Power, examines the human complexities of establishing social enterprises in emerging markets. It is scheduled for release in Winter 2021. She is a Senior Fellow with the Sagamore Institute and an Affiliate Faculty Member of Regis University.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Angel Covers

Angel Covers is a global development organization strengthening healthcare and education in rural communities where children are vulnerable to malnutrition, trafficking, and disease to ensure that every child’s life is full of health and opportunity.

Website: https://www.angelcovers.orgCountries: Kenya, Thailand Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Anna Stolk

Anna Stolk recently relocated to Denver and works remotely as a Program Manager at Chemonics International. Stolk would like to grow her network in the international development community in Denver.

Chemonics International Mission Statement: “Our mission is to promote meaningful change around the world to help people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives.”

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Anne Zeifman

Anne Zeifman is a seasoned veterinarian from New York, who is in the process of shifting her career focus from small animal practice to the advancement of the One Health integrated approach to global healthcare. She has a deep fund of medical knowledge and experience, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and is bilingual. She envisions working for an NGO, for a governmental agency or as an educator in this important field. She will bring her passion, many years of experience, and expertise in leadership and team building to help tackle the interrelated threats to human, animal, and environmental health.

Countries: Global, United States Organization Type: Individual

Brooke Sparling

Congo Activists is a group of grassroots activists in the USA raising awareness about the conflict in D.R. Congo and working for justice and peace in DRC. The Hike for Congo is our annual fundraiser.

Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo Organization Type: Philanthropy or Funding

Chris Allan

Chris Allan is a consultant on international environmental and development programming, and has a Masters Degree in Social Change and Development from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and a Bachelors Degree in Biology and African Studies from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

He has thirty years experience in community development and environmental protection and has worked with the Environmental Health Fund as International Programs Advisor, Global Greengrants Fund as both Program Director and Development Director, Lutheran Refugee Services as Employment Administrator, Catholic Relief Services in Africa and the US, and the US Peace Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Allan has designed development and environmental programs, managed budgets from $200,000 to $20 million, raised funds from governments, foundations, and major donors, designed, managed and led evaluations of programs, designed and led training and organizational development workshops, built and managed global networks, and traveled and worked extensively on every continent except Antarctica.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Claire Read

Dr. Claire Read is the founder and CEO of ProSocial Dynamics, LLC, a woman-owned small business providing consulting and coaching services in the areas of team systems, executive, and leader/leadership coaching. Claire works with the Prosocial Process for Team Self-Governance, a method for developing swift trust, psychological safety, and a deep commitment to the team’s shared purpose. Prosocial provides a framework for teams to self-charter and have agency over their own internal affairs.

Dr. Read’s mission is to create organizations and teams that foster a deeper human pattern of consciousness, developing a deep understanding that we live in a much wider ecological system than just ourselves, for which we bear responsibility. As a proponent of the Prosocial ARC (Awareness, Relationship, Culture) Path, she is committed to introducing Prosocial principles, a set of social principles that tend to decrease self-interested behavior and foster flexible behaviors. These behaviors enhance the good of the group and the system as a whole to serve as a vehicle for embracing human and planetary needs as our global organizing principles. The Prosocial Path is evolutionary in that it develops swift change in the way teams and groups relate to their environments and to the larger systems, moving from “what is good for me” to “what is good for the group as a whole,” a useful concept for the survival of the planet.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairereadphd/Countries: United States Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Colorado State University System – SPUR Campus

The Colorado State University System exists to support, enhance, and protect the unique missions of its constituent institutions and to encourage collaboration that benefits students and Colorado.

Website: https://csusystem.edu/we-are-colorado/Countries: United States Organization Type: Academic Institution/Program

David Walker

David Walker has more than 20 years of experience leading organizations in the public health and conservation sectors. He is currently Executive VP at the Population Media Center where he oversees all activity with a particular focus on strategic planning, including the successful implementation of programs and new program development. The Population Media Center’s goals are to equip people to live healthier and more prosperous lives and to stabilize the global population at a level at which people can live sustainably with the world’s renewable resources. David’s aim is to use entertainment education and mass media to promote social and cultural change by addressing the interconnected issues of the full rights of women and girls, the population, and the environment.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwalker28/Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Deena Duwaik

Deena Duwaik is currently pursuing her MPA with hopes of becoming a private sector executive. She identifies as a Middle Eastern woman and has lived/ worked in countries around the world. She has a passion for women and refugees, in particular the policies that directly impact them, and currently works at an anti-hunger nonprofit which works to identify and resolve the root causes of food insecurity.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

DenCoKID

DenCoKID builds their community’s awareness of dyslexia, provides a web of support for the families and educators of students with dyslexia, and advocates for improved learning outcomes for all Denver kids. They are a volunteer-run grassroots nonprofit working with and supporting Denver’s schools, families and educators.

DenCoKID is a partner of COKID, and aligns their work with that of the International Dyslexia Association.

Website: https://www.dencokid.comCountries: United States Organization Type: Policy, Research, or Advocacy

Denver Department of Public Health and Environment

The Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) is Denver’s nationally accredited public health agency. We empower Denver’s communities to live better, longer by providing people with opportunities that support their well-being and by improving services that enrich our community.

Website: https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Public-Health-EnvironmentCountries: United States Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Desiree Acholla

Desiree Acholla has over fifteen years of social impact work, with more than 10 years in the international development sector. Global experiences in campaign advocacy, public health, financial inclusion, and education have granted her a nuanced perspective as a Social Impact Consultant. She has worked in education and development to reduce disparity in schooling access and learning outcomes in the Global South, specializing in public-private partnerships and education financing. Desiree also helps philanthropic foundations and public health organizations to center equity in grantmaking, partnership development, and addressing the social determinants of health. Currently, as Principal of her consulting firm, Inararibonye LLC, Desiree helps organizations develop a praxis of diversity, equity and inclusion, anti-racism, and/or decolonization that is relevant, reflective, and responsive to their focal areas and stakeholders. She is the founder of DecolonizeDevelopment.org, an online support resource for aid and humanitarian practitioners to think critically about the implications of decolonizing the sector. Desiree has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Montana and a Joint Master in Education Policies for Global Development from the University of Amsterdam, the University of Oslo, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She also holds certificates in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Work from the University of South Florida, Muma College of Business.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dacholla/Countries: Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Global, Rwanda Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Doug Vilsack

Doug currently serves as Assistant Director for Parks, Wildlife and Lands for Colorado Department of Natural Resources, assisting the Executive Director on wildlife, lands and recreation related issues and working with the Directors of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife and State Land Board to achieve their missions.

Prior to joining DNR, Doug was the founding Executive Director of the Posner Center for International Development. He also founded Elephant Energy, a social venture that distributed household solar products to over 100,000 people in Southern Africa and the Navajo Nation. Doug first traveled to Namibia to work for the World Wildlife Fund in 2005 and has returned on numerous occasions to continue his work with community-based conservation organizations.

Doug was a practicing natural resources attorney in Denver before his work at DNR and the Posner Center. He received his J.D. from University of Colorado Law School and his B.A. from Colorado College.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Elevation Community Land Trust

Elevation Community Land Trust partners with local communities to ensure families can access opportunity through permanently affordable homeownership. ECLT helps stabilize families through the use of the community land trust (CLT) model, a proven asset‐building tool for lower income communities and communities of color that are at risk of displacement.

Website: https://www.elevationclt.org/Countries: United States Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Entrepreneurs for Social Impact Experiential Education (ExEd)

Vision: Better life outcomes and a healthier global environment.
Mission: Solve challenging problems, implement feasible solutions.

Astute observation, context awareness, R&D, thoughtful design, customer validation, proof of concept, market testing, prototyping, team building, internal/external functionality, leadership skills and funding are emphasized. Pitch decks and pitches are developed, refined and presented repeatedly.

Structure may be: a non-profit, small or large business, benefit corp, institute, foundation, NGO or non-formal organization. Students meet with 100+ business/organization founder/leaders and potential funders during New Mexico and Colorado Entrepreneurial Tours.

Website: https://www.uwc-usa.org/Countries: Global Organization Type: Academic Institution/Program

Farah Mahesri

Farah Mahesri is passionately curious about how we can best create sustainable, transformative impact around the world and create the world we want to live in. This has led Mahesri towards testing new approaches, diving deeply into technology, leading efforts to increase inclusion, and working across sectors to find innovative solutions. Using an impact-focused, systemic approach, she works to balance team interests, business needs and organizational missions. Mahesri has helped nearly a dozen small, medium and large non-profit and social enterprises write and implement strategic and growth plans, and she has worked in over nearly two dozen countries – particularly in South Asia and the Middle East – and across the United States. Mahesri also co-leads the Bay Area International Development Group.

Website: https://www.fnmadvising.com/Countries: United States Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Farm Organic International LLC/Gopul Associates

Countries: Global Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Fatou Doumbia

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Global Level LLC

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Gretchen King

Gretchen King has 12 years of experience in international development policy, communications, and research with specializations in locally-led development, and democracy and governance. She also has experience in political economy, systems thinking and community engagement approaches. Ms. King has conducted evaluations/assessments of international non-governmental organization (INGO) programming as it relates to policy influencing with host governments, legislative reform, sustainability approaches, and efforts to advocate for policy and practice changes within the United States Government and United Nations system. Her expertise in evidence-based policy formation, policy influencing, and deep understanding of aid effectiveness practice approaches, enable her to connect global policy to practical implementation in the field. She holds a Master’s Degree in Violence, Conflict, and Development from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Columbia College Chicago. She is also certified in public participation techniques and planning and social network analysis.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchen-king-0b379b58/Countries: Global, United States Organization Type: Individual

Inside ESG

Inside ESG is a podcast, YouTube channel and blog for global companies working to decarbonize, enhance economic impacts, and work towards the Sustainable Development Goals more broadly. In addition, Inside ESG offers training and a community of best practices for boards, practitioners, investors and strategists.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Jamie Hansen

Jamie is the former Community Concierge for the Posner Center, and continues to volunteer his time in a supporting role for Communications and Development. He travels often as a musician, student of the world, and all around history dork. 

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Jamila White

Jamila White is an International Development and Humanitarian expert with 15 years of experience managing, designing, and implementing more than 100 million dollars in complex economic and social development initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. Raised in Virginia and Southeast D.C., Jamila’s life’s work has been focused on opening doors, creating access, and supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of color worldwide. Jamila believes it’s time for the social impact arena to evolve. To shift from a vertical model to a horizontal one of shared responsibility, trust, and mutual support. Jamila founded blakQuity, a connector, a cultivator, and a community of practice focused on re-envisioning what community development and social impact mean. Jamila holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Hampton University and a Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Economic Development and International Affairs from Indiana University. She was recently elected to local office in Washington D.C. and was sworn in as a Commissioner in January 2021 to a two-year term. Previously, Jamila was the Senior Africa Representative for Mercy Corps where she drove the implementation of Mercy Corps Africa’s strategy to Champion and Empower the Young African Leader and co-chaired Mercy Corps’ DC-based People of Color Affinity Group. Jamila is the co-founder of the Geraldine N. Coleman “a Seat at the Kitchen Table” College Scholarship Fund (a family fund she created to honor the legacy of her late grandmother who championed women’s rights, education, and economic freedom), a fellow with the Aspen Institute International Career Advancement Program (ICAP), Board Advisor at the Africa Summit, Co-Chair of the Society for International Development’s Young Professional Network where she uses her platform to increase the equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the industry by hosting discussions and events focused on #metoo, LGBTQI and sexual minorities, young professionals breaking into the industry, and racial diversity in foreign affairs. In addition, Jamila is a volunteer mentor with College Bound, Strategic Advisor for One World Exchange, Atlas Corps Volunteer, and works with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to develop the next pipeline of Black leaders in Foreign Affairs.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamilawhitedc/Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Julia Owen

Julia Owen currently works in immigration law in Denver, and on anti-trafficking efforts in Colorado. Prior to this, she was lucky enough to work abroad for an NGO focusing on the human rights of children and education. Julia is interested in learning more about monitoring and evaluation, human rights research, and international relations and finds it wonderful to be a part of the Posner community in various ways for the last five or so years.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-o-b775884a/Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Juliette Jack Banerjee

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Kate Lapides-Black

Kate Lapides-Black is a longtime professional visual journalist and photography educator with a focus on humanitarian issues with twenty years of contract work for numerous non-governmental organizations, including Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee and ReSurge International in Africa, Central and South America, and rural and indigenous communities in the U.S.

For the past ten years, Lapides-Black has deepened work in marketing and communications courtesy of staff positions with several Colorado-based non-profits. Specialties include content development and strategy, photography, graphic and web design, video editing and production, and editorial work. Kate is currently engaged in all these creative hats as the director of communications and development for ‘For the Good’, a non-profit partnering with remote Maasai communities in Kenya to address barriers to girls’ education.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Katherine Labombarde

Katherine Labombarde is currently pursuing her MA in International Development with a certificate in Global Environmental Change and Adaptation from the Korbel School. She has five years of experience working in monitoring, evaluation, and learning across several sectors (agriculture and food security, health, WASH, environment, education). Labombarde is interested in programmatic research, policy, and global governance for sustainable development and climate justice.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Kenneth Mibut Dam

In northern Ghana, 8 out of 10 children under 5 years old are anemic. This has a dire consequence on their physical and psychological health, as well as their learning abilities. As a physician working in a government hospital in the northern part of Ghana,  Kenneth Mibut Dam has seen many such cases. From these encounters, Dam started providing free screening, treatment, and education for children and mothers in rural northern Ghana.

Countries: Ghana Organization Type: Individual

Lydia Vanderburg

A seasoned accountant and trainer, Lydia Vanderburg is a QuickBooks Pro Advisor with over 18 years of experience helping small business leaders. She enjoys using her human relations skills to break down the technical aspects of accounting to create a common understanding with clients who appreciate the importance of accounting but feel foreign to the topic. Provides outsourced accounting to entities in need of a complete set of personalized accounting services. Services include consulting, training and implementing new or revised accounting systems, preparing and using budgets, processing payroll, sales and business tax returns, as well as, performing all aspects of bookkeeping (accounts receivable/payable, payroll, inventory tracking, and account reconciliations).

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-vanderburg-1282249Countries: United States Organization Type: Business Services

Maeva Ekoua

Bilingual and highly accountable professional with six years of professional experience in effectively providing administrative and operational support to humanitarian programs in Africa (most recently in Nigeria) remotely and in country. Strong command of financial management, human resources, and administrative supervision, as well as programmatic implementation and security management. Collaborative leader with proven ability to successfully support programs in fast-paced environments with minimum supervision.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Maite Wantwadi

Maite Wantwadi is originally from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I migrated to the United States in 1997. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Afterward, Maite decided to sign up for City Year, an AmeriCorps program that provides math and literacy interventions to youth in elementary to high school in math and literacy. She did one year in Miami, FL and another year in Denver, CO providing whole school environment positivity and providing afterschool and social-emotional learning programs. Through this experience, she realized that her passion was working with youth but she wanted to provide education in a different way. Next, Maite began working with YouthBiz, an entrepreneurship organization that taught middle and high schoolers how to start their own business. It was then, that she fell in love with entrepreneurship and decided that is what she wanted to do. A couple of years later, she joined Young Americans Center for Financial Education, where she currently works as the Entrepreneurship Director.  Maite’s hope and dream are to start a STEAM school in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in her grandfather’s village. She wanted to learn more about development, and its importance, and how to measure development in order to be able to provide the help needed. So, she applied to Regis University’s Master of Development Practice program where she is excited to learn more about development and how to put measures into practice.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maite-wantwadi-077aa960/Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States Organization Type: Individual

Mariana Diaz

Mariana began working at the Internet Society Foundation in March 2022 as a Grants Specialist. The Internet Society Foundation champions ideas and enables communities to unlock the Internet’s potential to tackle the world’s evolving challenges.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Philanthropy or Funding

Matthew Bravo

As an international development practitioner, Matthew Bravo has worked extensively in rural community development in Africa and South America. By building reciprocal partnerships with NGOs, universities, government agencies, and community leaders, he has engaged in numerous community initiatives focusing on women’s empowerment, sustainable farming, HIV/AIDS prevention, social entrepreneurship, and social movements. Currently, Bravo is approaching international development through an academic lens by pursuing a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Development at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His research primarily focuses on the intersection between development, cultural identity, gender, and globalization.

Countries: Bolivia, Ecuador, Rwanda, Uganda Organization Type: Individual

Melissa Krug

Melissa Krug works with nonprofits, organizations, and businesses to carry out qualitative research projects for market research, organizational culture, or evaluative purposes. With a focus on linguistic analysis, Krug takes a detailed view of conversations, printed content, and social media to make recommendations to improve internal and external discourse, reduce miscommunications, and streamline community access to organizational resources.

Countries: Peru, United States Organization Type: Individual

Micah Fay

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Michele Stillwell-Parvensky

Michele Stillwell-Parvensky is a committed advocate for social, economic, and racial justice with fifteen years of experience managing successful advocacy campaigns to achieve educational equity and improve the health of children and families. Michele provides policy, advocacy, and communications strategy consulting to help nonprofits achieve social change. Previously, she served as Vice President of Advocacy and Policy at Kidango, a large nonprofit child care organization in California, spent seven years at Children’s Defense Fund-California directing policy work on poverty, health, education, and juvenile justice, and worked on advocacy communications at Preschool California.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelestillwellparvensky/Countries: United States Organization Type: Policy, Research, or Advocacy

Mogli Technologies

Mogli’s native Salesforce apps enhance your platform investment and help you make a greater impact in the world. Mogli SMS empowers clients by enhancing communication, improving efficiency, and driving results for commercial businesses, government, domestic and international nonprofits, K-12 and higher education, and social venture organizations.

Website: https://www.mogli.com/Countries: Australia, Canada, France, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States Organization Type: Engineering/Technology

Mutoni Maureen

Mutoni Maureen is a Bakery Manager for The Women’s Bakery at their flagship store in Kigali, Rwanda. She is interested in finding a mentor to help her progress in her life and career.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutoni-maureen-b44923227/Countries: United States Organization Type: Entrepreneurship/Business Development

Nick McClure

Nick McClure is a technical specialist with 8 years of experience in natural resource management, resilience, and market-driven development approaches, primarily in East and Southern Africa. He is an experienced project manager and has provided technical and administrative support to donor-funded projects in the biodiversity conservation, fisheries, resilience, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sectors. At RTI International, Nick supports proposal development for international projects focused on biodiversity conservation, landscape management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, and implements a chimpanzee conservation project in western Tanzania.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickjmcclure/Countries: Global, Guatemala, Tanzania Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Nidia Trujillo

Nidia Trujillo thinks of herself as an organizational engineer, striving to optimize and find synergies between and among systems, structures, people, and culture. Her expertise is in business and program operations and management, built over 20 years working with the private and non-profit sectors. Fifteen of those years, she spent working with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partners, leading and managing multimillion-dollar programs and operations domestically and internationally. Nidia has managed programs in a variety of technical sectors, including rule of law, economic growth, health, and education. On a personal level, Nidia is exploring the need for meaningful human connection in the workplace and what it means for human capital in the digital era and researching motherhood in America and what needs to happen for women to have the option to have a family and a career.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidia-trujillo/Countries: Global Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Pezue Ventures

Countries: Global Organization Type: Entrepreneurship/Business Development

Philip Schuyler

Philip Schuyler is an Audit Principal at Fortner, Bayens, Levkulich and Garrison (FBLG), an accounting and advisory firm based in Denver that primarily serves community banks and other financial institutions. He founded Social Business Alliance LLC to support individuals and organizations working to address internationally recognized development goals. The organization seeks to advocate for the acceleration of solutions serving marginalized countries and communities. The organization issues newsletters promoting individuals and organizations working to change the world.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Business Services

Phillip Schuyler

Phillip Schuyler is interested in a variety of sectors that work to improve the lives of others, and hearing about how they are being implemented and the innovation within them. Schuyler is an Audit Principal at Fortner, Bayens, Levkulich and Garrison (FBLG), an accounting and advisory firm based in Denver that primarily serves community banks and other financial institutions.

Countries: Global

Princess Bazley-Bethea

Princess Bazley-Bethea is the Director of Global DEI for Programs and Operations at CARE USA. She joined the organization in December 2021 and works across country and regional offices to evoke bold, meaningful, and systemic change, and ensure DEI strategies are responsive to, and reflective of, CARE USA’s global context. In her most recent role, Princess served as Director of DEI, supervising InterAction’s efforts to promote and enhance DEI across the INGO sector. Prior to joining InterAction, she worked for the National United Methodist Church, Delta Sigma Theta, and the National Women’s Law Center. She is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served as a Community Development Officer in St. Kitts and Nevis. Princess has an M.A. in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs from American University and a B.A. in Sociology from Winthrop University.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/princessbethea/Countries: Global Organization Type: Humanitarian Aid or Emergency Response

Rachel Fisher Ingraham

Rachel Fisher Ingraham is a skilled gender and social inclusion specialist, with over fifteen years of experience in gender-based violence, health, and women’s empowerment. Rachel has a background in policy analysis, research, and qualitative evaluation as well as in public health social work. She is an experienced writer with an outstanding ability to collect, process, and analyze complex data into objective and coherent tools for learning and decision making. Committed to social equity, Rachel has worked with both local and global clients. Rachel co-leads the WASH subgroup, part of the international Gender & COVID Working Group, focused on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, WASH, and public health.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-fisher-ingraham/Countries: Global, India, United States Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Rebecca Skala

Muso works to cure delay in health care as a cause of death. We collaborate with governments to design, test and scale community-led health systems that deliver care with speed.

Countries: Cote d'Ivoire, Mali Organization Type: Philanthropy or Funding

Rural Community Assistance Partnership

Ashley Zuelke cares about expanding economic opportunity and quality of life. As Research and Program Director for the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Ashley Zuelke is focused on supporting a network of U.S. nonprofits that provide assistance to small communities so they can provide safe drinking water, sanitary wastewater, and solutions to aid economic vitality to local residents and businesses. She is focused on helping the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, based in Washington, D.C., more broadly share the perspective of working with rural communities and using data to make creative, effective, and impactful decisions and policies. She is an experienced public servant with a background in strategy, communications, coordination, partnerships, international trade and economic development.

Website: https://www.rcap.org/Countries: United States Organization Type: Network/Consortium

Sandra Shuster

Senior management professional with 30 years’ experience leading multi-cultural teams often in high pressure, dynamic environments. Dot-connector extraordinaire with an entrepreneurial spirit and a diverse skill set, applied both nationally and internationally, that includes strategic planning, business development, team building and operations. Technical areas of expertise include international development, governance, grant making, energy transition, conflict mitigation, civil society development and community revitalization. Highly skilled at building effective teams that deliver results. Certified leadership coach (International Coaching Federation and the CoActive Training Institute). Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluent in Spanish and French.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Sandy Zook

Sandy Zook is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. She received her Ph.D. from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and her MPA from the University of Kansas.
Zook’s research is focused on civil society development, nonprofit financial management and social entrepreneurship– domestically and internationally. One of her current projects is coordinating an international team of researchers with the Ghanaian government to develop a digitized database of registered NGOs operating in Ghana.

Countries: Ghana Organization Type: Individual

SDB Missions

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Sharon Davis

Sharon Davis is a consultant who is passionate about leading strategic transformation, capacity building, and development within advocacy organizations to ensure sustained effectiveness.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Sloane Kohnstamm

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Stewart Kane

Stewart Kane is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Cambodia 2011-2013) and recent law school graduate. His focus area is community development, both in the United States and abroad. Kane currently works for HUD in Omaha.

Countries: Cambodia, Central America, Global, South America Organization Type: Individual

Tamara Jazbec

Tamara Jazbec has twenty years of experience in non-profit program management, focusing on international and intercultural education through entrepreneurial leadership development. Jazbec is skilled in working with international partners & youth ambassadors to develop programs according to the organization’s mission and program goals, as well as training volunteers and other stakeholders to implement the program on a daily basis.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Academic Institution/Program

Todd Sanford

Todd Sanford is a climate scientist with experience in academic, Federal, non-profit, and private sectors. Sanford is currently involved with an ocean conservation non-profit that is seeking to connect ocean conservation and research with sustainable development outcomes, and also has extensive experience in ecological restoration and how that impacts local communities. Sanford’s work also involves a wide range of data analytics and technologies.

Countries: United States Organization Type: Individual

Tom Coogan

Tom Coogan is retired from Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado where he worked with special needs students. Previously, Tom has experience as a Finance and Human Resources (HR) Coordinator with two international aid organizations. His strengths in those positions were in budget development, monitoring and management, accounting, internal auditing, and human resource management. Prior to working with non-profit aid organizations, Tom had a successful career in corporate sales and account management.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-coogan-b00b426/Countries: Global Organization Type: Individual

Tom Hilton

Tom is an economist with 12 years’ experience working on sustainable economic development across the Global South. His research at Colorado State University focuses on the application of market systems thinking to problems of climate change and biodiversity conservation.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Academic Institution/Program

Waleska Crowe

Waleska Crowe, born and raised in Guatemala. She has worked with Engineers Without Borders Guatemala and is a Rotarian. With both organizations she has gained experience working on WASH in HCFs, community WASH, WASH in schools.
Current Member of WASH in HCF Community of Practice Steering Committee, Launched by Emory University’s Center for Global Safe WASH.
Her passion is to connect with others and help those in need by acting as a liaison. She is degreed in BM, has co-founded an NGO and three social businesses in Guatemala. Waleska enjoys swimming and hiking with her family.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Water For Generations

Water For Generations, based in Malawi, Africa, is an organization created with the passion to support sustainable water resources management by influencing the government to review and enact new water laws and policy frameworks. Water for Generations leads by conducting applied field research and policy analysis, institutional improvement through broad policy reform dialog platforms and advocacy with water sector stakeholders in Malawi to generate collective and informed policy reform decisions for sustainable water supplies. The organization also focuses on provision, rehabilitating, construction of new water sources in schools, health facilities and needy villages in Malawi.

Website: http://www.waterforgenerations.comCountries: Malawi Organization Type: Project Implementation or Direct Service Delivery

Western Colorado University: Clark School of Environment and Sustainability: Master in Environmental Management

Through experiential learning and project work with organizations in the Rocky Mountains and around the world, students earning Western Colorado University’s Master in Environmental Management degree enhance skills to tackle environmental problems and craft careers with government agencies, nonprofits, and for-profit organizations. We have an engaged community of students who choose either a residential or distance option, as our hybrid courses are accessible from anywhere in the world. We have three different tracks for students to choose from: Global Sustainability, Integrated and Public Lands, and Sustainable and Resilient Communities.

Website: https://www.western.edu/academics/school-graduate-studies/master-environmental-management-memCountries: Global Organization Type: Academic Institution/Program

Yoshiyama Shouten Franchise LLC (USA)

Countries: Global Organization Type: Consultant/Training

Ziah Orion

Arise Investments is a crowdfunding platform that helps our investors – or “seedlings” as we like to call them – accumulate enough for the down payment on their first home. By renting our single-family homes by the room to not-for-profits, we generate above-average cash flow that enables us to provide our seedlings with an outstanding return on investment. Our approach isn’t just about making money, it’s about changing lives. We believe that owning a home can provide a sense of security, stability, and pride that’s unmatched by renting. With our platform, you can be a part of changing someone’s life and helping them achieve their dreams of owning a home.

Countries: Global Organization Type: Entrepreneurship/Business Development