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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Summer Program Planned for Swanton, Maryland
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The Forage Center is considering holding a multi-day field-based exercise in Swanton, Maryland USA sometime between June - September 2020. If you are interested in attending a program, please share your name and contact information with
Catherine Cousar
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A decision will be made by May 1 about holding a program this summer. It is anticipated that the program fee would between $300 and $600 per person. You will be contacted soon after May 1 regarding a possible program.
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The Forage Center recently received a grant of $2,000 from the Phase Foundation, a Germantown, Maryland based foundation, to hold a program in the DC metro area on humanitarian action. If you are in the DC area and want to participate, please contact
Catherine Cousar
. The program will take place in late 2020.
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NTERESTED 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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Lena Choudhary
Every newsletter features a Forage Center alum, staff or board member, or role player. For this newsletter, we are featuring Lena Choudhary, a Forage Center program specialist.
Lena Choudhary, JD, MS, RN is an associate professor of nursing at Montgomery College. Her focus is on legal and ethical issues in nursing along with work site environments particularly lateral violence or bullying in the nursing profession.
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Forage Center Looking for Staff Assistant for Baltimore Program
The Forage Center has
a program coming up on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at the Community College of Baltimore County/Dundalk for about 40 community college students. For the program, we need a second set of hands from an alum of the program. It would be a 2-3 hour commitment, starting at 9 a.m. and ending about 11 a.m. Basically, we need someone to work individually with 1/2 the students to prepare them for a refugee simulation. The Forage Center will pay the person selected $125 for their time (including driving time). If this is something that might be of interest, send
Catherine Cousar
your resume on or before March 16, 2020.
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Job Hunting in a COVID-19 World
The COVID-19 crisis has caused job hunters to consider creative approaches to seeking out work and connections. Read Forage Center President David J. Smith's advice
here
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Launching a Career in the Field
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CORE Seeks DC Based Humanitarian Response Assistant Position: Closes 3/31/20
CORE is a humanitarian non-profit organization seeking a Humanitarian Response Program Associate to join its team, based in the Washington, D.C. area. CORE has active programs in Haiti, the Bahamas, and the US, in disaster preparedness, humanitarian assistance, education, climate change adaptation, and health. Our mission is to saves lives and strengthens communities affected by or vulnerable to crises.
The Humanitarian Response Program Associate supports all aspects of CORE’s program portfolio at headquarters, and is an active participant in the organization’s responses to crises. Go
here
to apply and learn more
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How can Greece and its still recovering economy handle its largest influx of asylum seekers since 2015? What assistance is being offered by the EU and the international community? What is the situation on the ground today? Join r a conversation with Devon Cone, who recently returned from a fact-finding mission to evaluate conditions faced by asylum seekers in the Greek islands.
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In his newly released book, Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees, Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., examines the scope of our responsibilities and considers practical solutions to the global refugee crisis.Featuring panelists T. Alexander Aleinikoff, former United Nations deputy high commissioner for refugees (moderator); Anne Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration; and Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
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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
our website
or you can make a purchase through
AmazonSmile.
Please consider supporting out work!
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THE NEWSFEED
Recent Articles on Humanitarian Work that Caught Our Attention
- “Suffering in Silence”: New CARE report highlights top 10 crises that received little to no media attention in 2019, Care International, January 28, 2020
- The Coming Generation of Social Change Professionals, PCDN, February 6, 2020
- Refugee resettlement flattens off, The New Humanitarian, February 5, 2020
- How the coronavirus outbreak could hit refugees and migrants, The New Humanitarian, February 27, 2020
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Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education, Inc.
https://www.foragecenter.org/
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