Success Stories
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Press Release
Iowa
Resource for International Service, a non-profit
organization in Ames, has been awarded two grants from the
U.S. State Department totaling nearly $1.2 million for
peace and development work in ...more |
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YES Program 2006/07: Highlights
IRIS has been at the forefront of
representing the interests of sub-Saharan Africa in the
Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program by been the first
organization to recruit students from an area of the world
that makes the headlines...more |
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First Lady
Laura Bush opens the America's Children Corner in Sofia,
Bulgaria The American Corner
is a part of an exchange between Bulgaria and the US through
the American-Bulgarian Library Exchange program. The
American Children's Corner provides resources that tell the
story of the United States so children in Sofia can discover
literature that children in the United States enjoy...more |
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2006 National
Award For Outstanding Achievement in Citizen Diplomacy
IRIS was among seven Iowa
organizations honored by the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy
at the Iowa State Historical Building, 600 East Locust, Des
Moines, Iowa, on September 6, 2006 with the National
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Citizen Diplomacy. The
recognition was based on four IRIS programs namely Community
Connections, Great Lakes Reconciliation Project on Justice
and Journalism, Building Civil Society and Peace in Nigeria,
and African Workforce Developing project on Building a
Nigerian Model. Mr. Del Christensen the executive director
accepted a plaque on behalf of IRIS.
The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a national
organization based in Iowa and dedicated to serving the many
organizations active in citizen diplomacy through
development of resources which will enable the establishment
of best-practices in citizen diplomacy and the recruitment
of persons to serve as U.S. citizen ambassadors to the
world. For more information, visit
www.uscenterforcitizendiplomacy.org.
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YES Program 2005/06: Highlights
Click on the YES logo for some highlights
of the program in the 2005/06 year. |
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Alumni Group
wins the Disney Minnie Grant
One of the
IRIS Alumni groups in
Nigeria, Peace and Development Forum, Kaduna was selected by
Youth Service America (YSA)
as a
Disney
Minnie Grant winner. Their application was
selected from among almost
500 proposals from all over the world. The Disney Minnie
Grant, which is
administered by Youth Service America and funded by Disney,
helps to
underwrite youth service projects for Global Youth Service
Day, held
on April 21-23rd in 2006. Click
events to see the
schedule and description of the events in Nigeria. |
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ECA Alumni of the Month
- February 2006
Abdulhafeez Lawal (Nigeria), Study of the U.S. Institutes
To read more click
here
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best rendering).
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Bulgarian Library Exchange: Creating Gateways for Global
Understanding and Community Information Services. Click on
the logo above to check out the website. |
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