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FALL 2016
ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF CORE GROUP LISTSERVS?   

We offer many ways to connect with your peers throughout the year, both in person and online, and one of the most popular mechanisms is our email listservs. 

The general CORE Group Community listserv is best for keeping up with CORE Group and global health news relevant to all, while our many Working and Interest Group listservs give you personalized content based on your areas of interest.

Listservs also allow you to share out your upcoming events, new tools, news, technical questions, and more to a large community of practitioners.


Save the Date for the 2017 Global Health Practitioner Conference_ April 18 - 21 in Baltimore_ MD

Save the date for our 2017 Conference! More information is coming your way in the next few weeks.

We are proud and excited to celebrate CORE Group's 20-year anniversary throughout 2017! 

Look out for more details coming soon.
CORE GROUP AT APHA
October 30 - November 2, 2016 | Denver, CO

RESOURCES AVAILABLE:  FALL 2016 GLOBAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 13 - 14, 2016 | WASHINGTON, DC 

The CORE Group Fall 2016 Global Health Practitioner Conference brought together 253 participants from 7 countries representing 75 organizations and 10 universities. 

Attendees exchanged and learned about community health approaches and good practices, connected with their global health peers, and strategized on joint efforts in Working Groups. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO 2016 DORY STORMS AWARD WINNER KAREN LEBAN  

At the Fall 2016 Global Health Practitioner Conference, CORE Group Board Chair Judy Lewis presented the 2016 Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award to lifelong child health advocate and former CORE Group Executive Director Karen LeBan.

Read a tribute to Karen written by CORE Group Board Member Janine Schooley.

The Knowledge Sharing Meeting brought together over 200 implementers, donors, and researchers from over 95 organizations for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around food security and nutrition programming.

Attendees explored the changing landscapes of food security in the region including the growing role of youth, and the need to build sustainability and resilience strategies into projects. 


CORE Group, through the TOPS/FSN Network Knowledge Management Task Force, hosted a 3-part Summer Series that tapped into the collective wisdom of sector experts to deliver solutions to some of the challenges of online engagement. Recordings and other resources from all three sessions are available below:

Part 1:  Let's Talk Online Engagement, Stan Garfield

Part 2: Assessing the Health of Your Online Community, Richard Millington


 Young Professionals Network Happy Hour:
Networking Tips & Tricks  

Thursday, November 10, 2016 | 5:30 - 7:30pm
BlackFinn, 1620 I Street NW, Washington, DC

Whether you're a networking pro or just need a bit more practice, join CORE Group's Young Professionals Network this Thursday night to learn some networking best practices. 

RSVP here! Stay up-to-date on future events by joining the YPN listserv - send a blank email to ypn-subscribe@lists.coregroup.org. 
LESSONS LEARNED: 
NEWBORN CARE PILOT IN ETHIOPIA

USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program funded a six month pilot project on Social Mobilization and Demand Creation for Improved Newborn Care in Errer Woreda, Somali Region, Ethiopia from October 2015 to March 2016. CORE Group implemented the pilot using the CORE Group Polio Project platform, led in Ethiopia by CCRDA.

On August 24, 2016, a workshop was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to disseminate results of the project's final assessment, which show encouraging results for the feasibility of using established immunization platforms to promote newborn health messages. A final report will be distributed shortly. 
PAN AFRICAN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY LEARNING LAB 2016
OCTOBER 16 - 21, 2016 | MANZINI, SWAZILAND 

CORE Group Community Health and Civil Society Advisor David Shanklin joined over 100 participants, most from southern Africa, for a full week of panel discussions, field visits, keynote addresses, informal learning discussions, and participant networking all to answer the question, "How does context affect social accountability outcomes?"   


Global Nutrition Summit
SEPTEMBER 21 - 23, 2016 | DALLAS, TEXAS 

CORE Group Executive Director Lisa Hilmi presented a "Global Overview of Nutrition and Partnership" at the Global Nutrition Summit, hosted by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, during the opening  session with the USDA Under Secretary for Food and Nutrition, who presented the domestic landscape.  Over 100 diverse stakeholders, including policy makers, clinicians, private companies, NGOs/INGOs, and academics, celebrated 100 years of the Academy's history and discussed devising solutions for the greatest food and nutrition challenges of the 21st century. See graphical representations of the presentations here.
A CALL TO ACTION - COMPLEXITY MATTERS
 
CORE Group encourages all Member Organizations and Individual Associates to sign on to the 
Call to Action - Complexity Matters, which  advocates for context-sensitive and complexity-aware monitoring and evaluation approaches and the commitment of both donors and implementers to act on what we know about the importance of context to the nature of change.

Learn more and sign on to the Call to Action  here .
NEW HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE
 
In response to the need for improved coordination, communication, and collaborative learning, CORE Group  is convening a Humanitarian-Development Global Health Task Force to focus on emergency response, recovery, and development.  This task force will work closely with INGOs, CSOs, national governments, UN, donors, and policy makers to improve dialogue in response and the humanitarian- development nexus.

Join the task force listserv by sending a blank email to:

WELCOME TO NEW STAFF
 
John McPhail
Senior Director of Partnership and Business Development
John McPhail has over 23 years of experience in organizational leadership involving strategic development, partnership building, management and administration of national and international community development programs, stakeholder engagement, and design and engineering support of engineering projects, including sixteen as a country and regional director and team leader for social sector and faith-based non-profit organizations of up to 350+ staff. He has held leadership roles on boards of six networks and local organizations, providing organizational development and operational and strategic direction, including leading eight strategic planning processes. Read More.
WORKING GROUP CHAIR UPDATES
 
OUTGOING CHAIRS
CORE Group would like to extend a sincere thank you to the following Working Group chairs who have recently stepped down after many years of service:
  • Justine Kavle, USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program, PATH (Nutrition)
  • Maureen Gallagher, Action Against Hunger (Nutrition)
  • Lenette Golding, Alive & Thrive, FHI 360 (Social and Behavior Change)
NEW CHAIRS
We would also like to welcome these new Working Group chairs. We applaud their enthusiasm and look forward to their leadership:
  • Kathryn Reider, World Vision (Nutrition)
  • Gwyneth Cotes, SPRING, JSI (Nutrition)
  • Tom Davis, Independent (Social and Behavior Change)
  REGISTER FOR UPCOMING WEBINARS
 
We offer webinars throughout the year to keep global health practitioners informed of key and timely global health topics. Join us for these upcoming webinars:
CORE GROUP MEMBERS & ASSOCIATES -
WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!
 
CORE Group's Membership is truly an extension of our organization, and we strongly value our Members' and Associates' thoughts, opinions, and advice. 

So when you see a membership survey in your inbox in the next couple weeks, please take the time to fill it out! We only do these surveys every few years, and the feedback will guide much of our activity, so make sure your voice is heard!
 FEATURE YOUR ORGANIZATION'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

Tell us about your new resources, upcoming events, and other announcements to be published in the next CORE Group Member Highlights eNewsletter.  This quarterly eNewsletter features our Members' innovations and updates. 
 
Submit content by Friday, November 18, 2016!
ABOUT CORE GROUP

CORE Group supports effective implementation at scale of programs that promote and protect health in all communities, including the most marginalized. We represent nearly 70 global nonprofit and non-governmental organizations working worldwide. We are public health professionals working together to develop innovative tools, resources, and programs to improve health outcomes. Our collaboration results in greater impact than organizations can accomplish individually.

Vision: Communities where everyone can attain health and well-being.

Mission: Improve and expand community health practices for underserved populations, especially women and children, through collaborative action and learning.

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