Community organizing and Professional Fellows exchanges 2011-2025 www.glc-teachdemocracy2.org We will continue working with the sane 5 European countries.
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The Great Lakes Consortium for International Training and Development in Northwest Ohio- a program of Great Lakes Community Action Partnership (GLCAP), formerly known as WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc. - received the first Professional Fellows Program (PFP) grant in September 2011 from the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of Citizen Exchange Professional Fellows Division for "CITIZEN LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and USA. We received the 2nd Professional Fellows Program grant for the same countries "BUILDING GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES" in September 2012. In September 2014 we were selected for the 3rd PFP grant on "SUSTAINING CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES" which was a renewable grant, so we continued the PFP with additional (4th and 5th) grants in September 2015 and September 2016 with the same focus and same countries.
In September 2017 through a new competitive process we were awarded a new Professional Fellows Program grant “SHAPING PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY” which included one more country Albania to our previous 4 European countries. This grant was also renewable for an additional two years, so we continued this exchange with a new grant in September 2018 and September 2019. This last grant will allow us to continue our work until the end of 2021. The PFPs in each grant cycle include activities in the US and in selected countries of Europe, as well as on-line training and engagement for about 2 years with many post-grant activities afterwards. Building a strong GLCAP PFP ALUMNI community from fellows participating in the program from the beginning has been a special focus in order to share professional experience and develop collaboration within country and also regionally within Europe and/or also with the U.S. alumni mentor partners. By the end of 2019 we had a total of 256 PFP alumni in Europe and more than 110 in the USA who participated in the exchanges in the past years.
Success stories were published in “Taking Action-Changing Lives in Minority Communities” Volume I (in 2014); Volume II (in 2015) ; Volume III (in 2017); Volume IV (in 2018), Volume V (in 2019). Brief history:
In each PFP we have a special focus on sharing community organizing knowledge and experience, provide training and tools that can be useful to engage and empower different minority and disadvantaged groups in identifying and solving some of their common issues in their communities. Collaboration with partners in community organizing incl. ECON (European Community Organizing Network) and CEECN (Central and Eastern European Citizens Network) and in the selected countries started in 2010 with David Beckwith leadership from the US, with additional support -as advisors - later from Cris Doby, Peter Ujvagi, Sondra Youdelman. In Europe we received support and advise throughout these years from Chuck Hirt, Paul Cromwell, Kajo Zboril. Collaborative partners and country directors in each country implementing this project -as of in June 2020 :
