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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Forage Center Conversations
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As a continuation of our April webinar (see below), the Forage Center is starting a summer Forage Center Conversations series.
The first will be held on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
It will take place by Zoom between 4-5 p.m. EDT.
In "The Power in the Peer: Peer Partnership Development in Humanitarian Education" we will consider strategies to create an environment where peer relationships are viewed as an equal partnership rather than those based on power, including how to can develop a strong, multi-generational, and diverse team while capitalizing on the wealth of experience so everyone feels included and valued.
Lena Choudhary will host panelists Will Muehl and guest panelist Dr. Keleigh Blount.
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Forage Center Hosts Webinar
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The Forage Center hosted a webinar,
Beyond the Checkbox: Making the Most of Your Training Exercises
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on April 15. During the webinar, Forage Center staff their ideas on the components often missing from holistic emergency management and crisis response training exercises. Preparedness, response, and recovery activities require so much more than tactical planning – as such, communities depend on agencies to have short- and long-term strategies in mind. During the discussion, we examined ways to introduce elements of complexity – specifically, public health, consistent messaging, community conflict, and assessing community resources – into your own training exercises or debriefing procedures to develop depth in your workforce. The Forage Center is looking to hold other webinars during the summer months! Read below for more information
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Upcoming Career Events
Forage Center President David J. Smith will participate in two upcoming career events. He will be a panelist at the Society for International Development/Washington's
Finding a Job in the COVID-19 Era
(June 25, 2020, 1-2:30 p.m.)
and the guest presenter at the
Virtual Roundtable Breakfast Series
Sponsored by ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College in NYC
(July 2, 2020, 8 a.m.)
on careers. Career seeks should consider attending these events! They are free.
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Sarah Gresham
Every newsletter features a Forage Center alum, staff or board member, or role player. For this newsletter, we are featuring Sarah Gresham, a Forage Center Intern.
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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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Read the Forage Center's 2019 Annual Report
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Do you have time on your hands? Check out this list of upcoming webinars other organizations are putting on.
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Resilience at Risk: Cities, Crises and Confronting a Changed World host by the Harvard Humanitarian Institute
HHI hosts a new webinar series on urban humanitarian crises via Facebook Live: "Resilience at Risk: Cities, Crises and Confronting a Changed World". The four talks feature discussions between experts in the urban humanitarian response space: Ronak Patel, David Sanderson, Meg Keen & Anshu Sharma. Event Partners include HHI, UNSW Sydney, the Australian Pacific Security College at ANU, and SEEDS.
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Coordinating access for humanitarian protection hosted by the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection
The fourth session of the series on access and protection will focus on issues related to coordinated negotiations and approaches to access – including the use of armed escorts, civil-military coordination, and coordination with peacekeeping missions – and how these relate to protection.
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Finding A Job During the COVID-19 Era hosted by the Society for International Development
Join SID-Washington - in partnership with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey - for an interactive discussion on how the international development job market has changed in the past few months, receive practical tips for making your application stand out, and learn what skills are most important in this new virtual working world.
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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
- Bittersweet Images of Disaster Adaptation: A Photo Essay from the Philippines, Medium May 27, 2020
- Preparing for a disaster in the middle of a pandemic, Devex, June 1, 2020
- Hard lessons from COVID-19 on looking after the dead, The New Humanitarian, June 15, 2020
- New UN field hospitals will treat humanitarian workers with COVID-19, Devex, June 12, 2020
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Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education, Inc.
https://www.foragecenter.org/
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