Welcome to Forage Center News! You are receiving this newsletter because you are either an alum of a Forage Center program or a supporter of our work. Thank you for taking time to read our newsletter! We don't want to overload your inbox but rather provide you with information and news four times a year about our efforts, as well as update you on issues related to the fields of humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding. We want this newsletter to directly benefit you as you advance your career or support humanitarian work. If you have suggestions about how to improve this newsletter, please let us know!
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With the end of the year, you might be thinking about making a charitable contribution. The Forage Center has started a Go Fund Me Campaign to offset some of our administrative costs in 2020. If you able to give an amount - no matter how much - to support our work, we would be grateful!
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Campus Compact
Mid- Atlantic's Conference
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Forage Center staff presented at the University of Maryland for Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic's Conference on Service Learning. In an evaluation one participant in our simulation commented:
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The framing around the experience is unparalleled, and it brought together several experiences from my professional past with FEMA and the American Red Cross."
Click below to read more about the program.
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Allegany College of Maryland
Program
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Forage Center President, David J. Smith, offered the
People in Flight Simulation
, a program designed to help students understand the experiences of families and individuals forced to flee their homeland because of war and conflict at Allegany College of Maryland in Cumberland, Maryland on September 23. If you are interested in the Forage Center offering a program of this nature for your group, company or school,
let us know!
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CAREER STEPS AFTER THE FORAGE CENTER
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While studying you may have attended one the of the Forage Center field training events and now you are about to graduate or have graduated and have decided that you want to get into the humanitarian sector and work to make the world a better place. You have shown competency in:
- Recognizing the phases of humanitarian response, including preparedness, response, and recovery (Understanding the humanitarian context);
- Understanding the political and cultural context and underlying causes of a humanitarian crisis (Understanding the humanitarian context);
- Understanding of the roles of different agencies and organizations, and relevant coordination mechanisms, within the humanitarian system (Applying humanitarian standards and principles);
- Communication of key national and international humanitarian frameworks, standards, principles, and codes to evaluation of program goals and staff behaviors, and (Applying humanitarian standards and principles; Motivating and influencing others);
- Demonstrating flexibility to adapt in situations of rapid change, always informed by a focus on crisis-affected people (Making decisions);
- Capacity for active listening to new and different perspectives and experiences of crisis-affected people, stakeholders, and team members (Listening and creating dialogue);
- Understanding vulnerability in a humanitarian context by complying with safety and security protocols set by organizations and adapted to local conditions (Managing personal safety and security).
At the time of writing there are some 167 internships, 87 volunteer opportunities and 644 vacancies for those with 0 to 2 years’ experience on
Reliefweb
. Check them out!
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Advice on Starting a Career
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This piece in
The Guardian
from 2016 provides some excellent first steps in starting a career in humanitarian work.
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INTERESTED IN PEACE CORPS?
This position with Peace Corps Response looks for the skills
developed through Forage Center programming
Peace Corps
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INTERESTED IN HOSTING A FORAGE CENTER PROGRAM?
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Are you interested in offering an opportunity for your staff, community, or students to learn about best practices in humanitarian engagement, team building, emergency and disaster planning, negotiations, or peacebuilding.
The Forage Center is looking for partners . that would host a program or workshop on humanitarian and peacebuilding practice.
Programs can be tailored to needs of your group, and last a few hours or several days!
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PROFILE
Logan Varker
Every newsletter features a Forage Center alum, staff or board member, or role player. For this newsletter, we are featuring Logan Varker a participant in Coastal Promise 2018.
Logan is currently an International and Global Studies major and Spanish minor at University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
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SUPPORT THE FORAGE CENTER
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You can support the Forage Center financially in two ways. You can make a direct donation - a tax deductible through
Go Fund Me
- or you can make a purchase through
AmazonSmile.
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THE NEWSFEED
Recent Articles on Humanitarian Work that Caught Our Attention
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Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education, Inc.
https://www.foragecenter.org/
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