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EPDI Nigeria facilitates Participatory Strategic Planning with RCCG Faith City Junior church
submitted by EPDI Nigeria
PARTICIPATORY STRATEGIC PLANNING WITH RCCG FAITH CITY JUNIOR CHURCH The Junior Church, a unit in charge of children in the Church embarked on a transformation program for the unit. About twenty members of the unit gathered together to On October 1, 2019 to envision what the unit would be like three years from now. Ten major areas identified as key...
ICA Cote D’Ivoire provides capacity building training
submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire
The month of September was furnished with various training activities for beneficiaries and agents of ICA Cote D’Ivoire, as part of the capacity building planned in this year 4 project. The first focused on “Connecting the beneficiaries operating in the fields of agriculture and breeding, with the restaurant “MOMIJI”: point of sale of their products in the region of Agboville....
ICA Australasia colleagues engage in a range of social impact activities
submitted by ICA Australasia
ICA Australasia is a network organization – of colleagues in New Zealand and Australia. Its members are engaged in a wide range of social impact activities. These include Indigenous reconciliation and recognition, currently through the Voice, Truth Treaty campaign; working with, and learning from the First Nations people of Australia and the Maori community of New Zealand. Members also work...
ICA Associates Inc. Canada expands in 2019
submitted by ICA Associates Canada
April 1, 2019 was a watershed day for ICA Associates Inc. in Canada. For over a year the staff and owners have been preparing for a major expansion of the company by involving a group of 30 in thinking through a new structure, services and offerings. We now have 13 consultants, 12 active trainers and co-trainers with more on the...
You are invited to the ICA Asia Pacific 2019 regional conference, 7-13 November in Malaysia
submitted by ICA Taiwan
The Institute of Cultural Affairs Asia Pacific announces and cordially invites you to attend the annual ICA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2019 in Malaysia. Our Theme is “Knowing, Doing, Being… on behalf of the Future.” We will spend three and half days reporting, exploring the global reality we all face and what the possibilities might be for the...
ICA:UK & Fourmis du changement France support ToP training with ICA Benin
submitted by ICAUK
The ICA:UK Board recently approved a grant from the Village Volunteers fund as a contribution towards the training of women’s groups and Lambassa ICA Benin staff in ICA’s Technology of Participation. This article describes how the project came about and what is planned in the training. At the meeting of European ICAs in hosted by ICA Ukraine in Kiev in November,...
ICA USA’s Fifth City revisited through Chicago artist’s interpretation
submitted by ICA USA
Meida Teresa McNeal is a performing artist with Honey Pot Performance, Arts & Culture Manager for Chicago Park District, and a self-described “artist-administrator-educator”. She grew up in the Fifth City neighborhood of East Garfield Park on Chicago’s West Side, where her parents participated in ICA’s Fifth City community development project in the 1960s. Curious about her own memories and her...
ICA Canada presents the Courage to Lead Award
submitted by ICA Canada
The Courage to Lead Award On May 9, 2019, ICA Canada presented the Courage to Lead Award to SKETCH Working Arts. This award is given to an individual or organization that has demonstrated courageous and purposeful leadership within the community. For over two decades, SKETCH has greatly impacted the lives of youth across Canada who live in poverty and homelessness....
ICA USA presents origins of Accelerate77 to Asset-Based Community of Practice
submitted by ICA USA
When Terry Bergdall returned to ICA-USA to serve as CEO, the organization was in the midst of a missional shift to meet the emerging climate crisis. The City of Chicago was also attempting to respond to climate change, but the City’s approach was to convene expert consultants who drew up environmental programs, then tried to sell them to Chicagoans. Terry...
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This post was published in ICAI’s online magazine Winds and Waves – now published at Medium.com (see explanatory note). To receive articles by email as they are published subscribe at https://medium.com/winds-and-waves. “It was a very nice experience because, through it, I learned how to interact and how to support my daughters in their development,” said one participant in the Learning Basket program delivered in small rural...
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Serving People & Pla...
We are pleased to share here extracts of two new books by Rob Work, a long-time ICA colleague and author of A Compassionate Civilization: The Urgency of Sustainable Development and Mindful Activism – see also his bio below. Serving People & Planet: In Mystery, Love, and Gratitude This memoir (January 2020) celebrates the love between one person and one planet, between...
