FINAL 2011 Annual Report - National Peace Corps Association

Annual Report 2011

The
Next
Step
In
Changing
The World
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• Top: Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill.
Duke Ellington Choir at Arlington
Cemetery.
• Middle: Rep. Sam Farr and Rep.
John Garamendi during
September 2011 Advocacy Day. In
the RPCVillage at the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival. Lesotho RPCV in
the March of Flags.
• Bottom: RPCVs at the Santa Fe
Expo. Promise of the Peace Corps
Gala. At the Peace Corps exhibit,
Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
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A letter from the president and board chair
Thanks to the stirring 50th
anniversary events, 2011 was a
truly memorable year for the
N a t i o n a l P e a c e C o r p s
Association.
As the focal point for the year, the 50th
anniversary events were organized around two
milestone events: 1) JFK’s impromptu
remarks on October 14, 1960 at the
University of Michigan leading to the creation
of the Peace Corps, and 2) authorization by Congress of this bold experiment on
September 22, 1961.
Throughout this golden anniversary year’s activities, NPCA members and groups used a
variety of activities and events, as well as new and traditional media, to engage the Peace
Corps community so that we could celebrate the Peace Corps’s half-century of singular
accomplishments and strengthen our ability to “bring the world home” for the next 50
years. During this year, the community organized more than 2,000 events in 80 countries
and all 50 states engaging approximately 1.3 million individuals. While these are
described in much greater detail on pages 4 to 8, highlights include:
• Global House Birthday Parties — On March 1st, 50 years to the day the Peace Corps
was established through Executive Order 10924, we encouraged and provided support to
more than 700 house parties celebrating the Peace Corps, from Afghanistan to Zambia,
and Anchorage to Yuma.
• Folklife Festival — With the assistance of many in the community, the agency arranged
for the Peace Corps to be one of three featured themes in the Smithsonian’s annual
Folklife Festival.
• A Call to Peace — On September 21st, working with Civic Enterprises and Senator
Harris Wofford, we released the results of the largest ever survey on why individuals
volunteer and what difference that made, involving 11,138 respondents, of whom 98%
would recommend that a family or friend serve in the Peace Corps.
• Advocacy Day — Exactly half a century after the signing of the Peace Corps Act, we had
our largest ever Advocacy Day, involving close to 500 participants who held nearly 350
meetings on Capitol Hill, concluding with a inspiring reception in the Kennedy Senate
Caucus Room.
• Peace Corps and Host Country Nationals — Bill Moyers, Peace Corps’s first deputy
director, moderated an inspiring panel with three world leaders whose lives were shaped
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y Peace Corps Volunteers, turning the spotlight from the volunteers themselves to the
millions of people who have worked alongside PCVs and learned so much from them.
• Arlington Cemetery — On September 25th, RPCV/W, NPCA’s Washington, DC-area
member group, organized a moving tribute to those who served and to those who lost
their lives in service, followed by an unforgettable parade across Memorial Bridge under
the flags of 139 countries where Peace Corps Volunteers have served.
2011 was memorable in other ways. A group of courageous and dedicated Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers who were victims of sexual assault during their service worked
with the Congress to enact the Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act, requiring sexual
assault risk-reduction and response training, as well as the establishment of an Office of
Victim Advocacy, among other important provisions.
Last year, we also saw a transition in the leadership of NPCA’s Board of Directors. Tony
Barclay succeeded Jan Guifarro as Chair in September. We are deeply grateful to Jan for
her five years of wise and steady leadership of the Board, which helped to make the 50th
anniversary such a success.
Our successes in 2011 would not have been possible without the generous support of
NPCA’s donors and the active engagement of so many Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
(RPCVs), staff and others who have had their lives touched by the Peace Corps. Thank
you!
We look forward to your ongoing participation with NPCA so that we can continue to help
advance the Peace Corps’s timeless work in building a more peaceful and prosperous
world.
Sincerely,
Tony Barclay
Kevin F. F. Quigley
Kenya 1968-70 Thailand 1976-79
Chair
President
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50th Anniversary
After years of planning, it was finally here: 2011, the 50th anniversary year of
the founding of the Peace Corps. It was a remarkable year.
From the outset, the National Peace Corps Association
pursued a vision of the 50th anniversary guided by
several key principles:
• Ownership. Peace Corps belongs to the world… not
to the federal agency, not to the National Peace
Corps Association and its network of groups, former
staff or returned Volunteers. Rather, it belongs to
anyone who understands the power of individuals to
contribute to a better world.
• Participation. Anniversary events would be designed
so that people everywhere where the Peace Corps is
valued could join the celebrations.
• Purpose. These events would be more than a look
back. They would advance the essential work of
Peace Corps, promoting human development, peace
and prosperity.
• Aspiration. These events would help realize the
Peace Corps community’s long-held dream of having
a national focal point to share our stories,
meet and remember.
contests and displays, storytelling, dance parties,
scholarly panels, museum displays, and much, much
more.
To keep track of it all, NPCA launched a special 50th
Anniversary landing page
(www.PeaceCorpsConnect.org/50) and partnered with
the Peace Corps to administer a joint calendar that
enabled users to post information about the 50th
anniversary in a central, publicly accessible place.
The microsite also featured a timeline of key historic
speeches and moments in Peace Corps history.
Key NPCA Anniversary Events
Global House Parties. On March 1, NPCA encouraged
RPCVs around the world to host “birthday parties” —
both large and small, simple and elaborate, with old
friends and new acquaintances — to honor and
celebrate the founding of the Peace Corps. To “party
with a purpose,” the gatherings centered around the
issue of food security, and each host was given a
This decentralized yet inclusive approach
resulted in more than 1.3 million individuals
participating in close to 2,000 events in
more than 80 countries and all 50 states.
Anniversary events carried out throughout
the year by the wider Peace Corps
community included reunions large and
small, country updates, house parties,
service projects, film festivals, book
readings, happy hours, picnics, photo
House Party, March 2011.
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50th Anniversary
toolkit to help with the planning. In the
end, more than 700 house parties took
place around the world, in places as
diverse as Baghdad, Kabul, Bamako,
Ulan Bator, Eau Claire, Paris, New York,
Kansas City, Kazakhstan, Rome, and
Washington, DC.
Around the World Expos. In 2011 NPCA
partnered with the Peace Corps and local
RPCV member groups to hold nine
regional events nationwide to highlight
the contributions of Peace Corps
Volunteers and to celebrate the program’s
50th anniversary. The Around the World Expos — held
in Jacksonville, Fla.; Portland, Ore.; Madison, Wisc.;
Raleigh, N.C.; Brunswick, Maine; Philadelphia, Pa.;
Sacramento, Calif.; San Diego, Calif. and Santa Fe,
N.M. — provided an opportunity for the general public
to hear firsthand from former Volunteers about their
experiences and projects around the world. The final
Expo in Santa Fe was particularly high profile, as it
was held in conjunction with the colorful, communitywide
launch party for the 8th Santa Fe International
Folk Art Market.
Seven Fund Essay Contest. The National Peace Corps
Association and the SEVEN Fund sponsored a global
competition inviting the submission of essays that
described innovative ideas for fighting poverty. The
contest’s aim was to underscore the unique hands-on
microenterprise experience and knowledge that
current and returned Peace Corps volunteers can offer
to the larger development and business communities.
The winning author, Becky Straw, won $5,000 and
Peace Corps Exhibit,
Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
was a special guest at the “Conversations: The Future
of Peace Corps” panel and the Promise of the Peace
Corps Gala.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Although the Peace
Corps was the official partner, the National Peace
Corps Association played an important behind-thescenes
role in shaping the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife
Festival exhibit on the Peace Corps. NPCA
discussions with Peace Corps headquarters leadership
in 2007 resulted in the designation of a committee
within Peace Corps to initiate planning for the 50th.
The committee met with increasing frequency and on
July 3, 2008, NPCA and Peace Corps staff members
joined Smithsonian Folklife Festival staff to do a walkthrough
of that year’s festival, to envision what a
Peace Corps exhibition might look like. In 2010, with
the Peace Corps exhibition greenlighted, and the
anniversary date drawing near, NPCA took part in
several joint brainstorming and planning sessions with
Smithsonian curatorial staff. For two weeks in June
and July, serving Peace Corps Volunteers, Returned
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50th Anniversary
India Group 28 participates in
NPCA’s Day of Service.
Peace Corps Volunteers, and host country
counterparts shared their projects, talents and stories
on the National Mall, the nation’s “front lawn,” with
over 1 million visitors. Of special interest to NPCA,
there was an RPCVillage with dedicated message
boards for every Peace Corps country and an adjacent
RPCV tent, the Full Circle, which provided a space for
informal, spontaneous country of service reunions.
A Call to Peace: Perspectives of Volunteers on the
Peace Corps at 50. In 2011 the National Peace
Corps Association joined forces with Civic Enterprises
to conduct the largest independent survey ever
conducted to assess the impact of the Peace Corps
over its 50 year history and beyond. And who better to
ask than the people who know Peace Corps best: the
returned Volunteers themselves. We received an
overwhelming response from 11,000 participants —
over 5% of all people who served as Peace Corps
Volunteers — and released the finding on September
19, timed for the start of NPCA’s landmark 50th
anniversary events. Among the findings: 80% said
their service was effective in promoting
a better understanding of Americans in
the communities where they served and
an almost equal number said their
service helped promote a better
understanding of other peoples on the
part of Americans, and 98% would
recommend the Peace Corps to their
child, grandchild or other close family
member.
Advocacy Day. Fifty years to the day of
final passage and signing of the Peace
Corps Act, hundreds of Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) along with former staff,
Peace Corps applicants and other friends
(representing almost every state in the nation) went to
Capitol Hill to urge their lawmakers to honor the past,
present and future of the Peace Corps. Following an
opening rally, nearly 350 meetings were held in what
was the largest gathering of the Peace Corps
community on Capitol Hill in the past decade — if not
much longer.
Day of Service. As part of the capstone anniversary
events in Washington, DC, Friday, September 23 was
set aside as a Day of Service. That day, Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers visited the NPCA offices to
pick up a t-shirt and a coupon for a scoop of ice
cream courtesy of Ben and Jerry’s before heading to
their sites. There was such overwhelming interest
from our community that we were unable to place all
those who wanted to volunteer. Nonetheless, more
than 200 individuals volunteered with 12 D.C.-based
charities.
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50th Anniversary
Global Leaders Panel.
“Conversations: The Future of the
Peace Corps” was the featured
event for Saturday afternoon,
September 24. Bill Moyers,
esteemed journalist and member
of the Peace Corps’ founding
team, moderated a panel
discussion at the National
Theater which featured global
leaders whose lives have been
impacted by Peace Corps
Volunteers. In a wide ranging
conversation, Atiku Abubakar of Nigeria, Ashraf Ghani
Ahmadzai of Afghanistan and Alejandro Toledo of Peru
touched on themes of the role of culture, citizen
diplomacy and the relevance of the Peace Corps in a
changing world.
The Promise of the Peace Corps Gala. Over 800
people streamed into the dramatically decorated
atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building to celebrate the
Peace Corps in eclectic Peace Corps style. Chris
Matthews (Swaziland 68-70) served as master of
ceremonies, sprinkling in anecdotes from his own
Peace Corps service throughout the evening’s
program. Following a screened of the winning video in
the My Piece of the Corps contest, Special Olympics
CEO Timothy Shriver presented the Sargent Shriver
Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service to this
year’s winner, Sam Goldman (Benin 01-05). Later in
the evening Senator Harris Wofford presented a new
award — the Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award —
to Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of
Nigeria, business leader and university founder. Also
Promise of the Peace Corps Gala.
recognized were Becky Straw, winner of $5,000
NPCA / Seven Fund essay contest prize, and Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) Andrew Dykens and
Tom Robinson, who shared the Global Community
Project prize. Singer/songwriter Crystal Bowersox
performed several crowd-pleasers and concluded with
her own song, “Home is a Place,” set to a montage of
Peace Corps images. It was a marvelous and
memorable evening.
Arlington Cemetery Service Celebration and March of
Flags. Early on the morning of Sunday, September 25
thousands of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
streamed across Memorial Bridge to the amphitheater
at Arlington Cemetery to honor and reflect on 50 years
of the Peace Corps. Organized by the Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers of Washington, D.C. the event was
emceed by RPCV and journalist Maureen Orth and
featured speakers spanning the Peace Corps
experience and musical interludes. Following the
ceremony, RPCVs claimed their country of service
flags and marched across the bridge toward the
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50th Anniversary
Lincoln Memorial in a grand and colorful March of
Flags.
50th Anniversary Media Outreach
Over 10,000 media outlets in the U.S. and abroad
were contacted about the 50th anniversary events that
occurred in September 2011 alone. Each event was
publicized through targeting online media channels,
distributing press releases, and conducting media
outreach. Notable earned media coverage for
September 2011included:
• “The Scene: Peace Corps' Gala Celebrates 50
Years” / The Washington Post
• “Alums Say the Program Helps U.S. Image but Falls
Short on Service Goals”/ Time Magazine
• “Volunteers See, Help the World”/ The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
• “Peace Mission Hits Milestone” / The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
• “Get Ready for the $1 Trillion Peace Corps”/ US
News & World Report
• “The Promise of the Peace Corps Gala”/ The Hill
• “Peace Corps at 50”/ Brookings
• “Hardball Host Chris Matthews Loves the Peace
Corps”/ The Washington Examiner
March of Flags, September 25, 2011.
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Advocacy
2011 was a year in which
NPCA’s advocacy program
recognized and supported
Peace Corps’ past, present
and future.
The most significant advocacy moment
came on September 22nd – fifty years to
the day that the Peace Corps Act was
signed into law. On that day, the largest
single gathering of Peace Corps advocates
on Capitol Hill kicked off five days of celebratory
activities with calls for congressional action. An
estimated 500 advocates held more than 300
constituent meetings and dozens more informal
encounters to ask their lawmakers to honor the past,
present and future of the Peace Corps agency.
To honor the past of the Peace Corps, the National
Peace Corps Association urged support of bi-partisan
congressional legislation to authorize a
commemorative work near the National Mall to mark
the lasting historical significance of the founding of
the Peace Corps. By the end of the year, Senate
legislation (S. 1421) had 14 co-sponsors and
unanimous approval by the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee. House legislation (H.R. 854)
had 147 co-sponsors and awaited consideration by the
House Natural Resources Committee.
50th Anniversary advocates honored the present by
supporting the efforts of the groups First Action
Response and Kate’s Voice and urging passage of the
Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act (S.
1280; H.R. 2337). The bi-partisan legislation was
unanimously approved in both houses of Congress and
signed into law on November 21st.
To honor the future, NPCA pressed forward with calls
for strong Peace Corps funding amid an environment
of fiscal austerity. Although 2011 saw some
reduction in the international affairs and Peace Corps
budgets, the collective voice of advocates and Capitol
Hill champions minimized the reductions and turned
back efforts for deeper cuts. While significant, the
$26 million reduction to $374 million was much less
than a $70 million cut that had been recommended
by the House of Representatives. The efforts to beat
back the size of the cut was buoyed by the signatures
of more than 100 members of the House on a Dear
Colleague letter supporting the President’s original
$440 million Peace Corps funding request.
The NPCA honored two RPCV congressional leaders
early in 2011for their continued public service and
leadership to the Peace Corps community during the
50th anniversary year. Wisconsin Representative Tom
Petri (Somalia 66-67) was recognized, as was
California Representative Sam “Mr. Peace Corps” Farr
(Colombia 64-66).
2011 saw a new advocacy initiative develop as well.
NPCA conducted our first coordinated action to
support state and congressional district meetings with
members of Congress. Advocates in at least 14 states
held at least 25 meetings in August. This
complemented NPCA’s seventh annual National Day
of Action in March, during which NPCA Advocacy
organized a collective one-day show of support for the
Peace Corps with emails and phone calls, as well as a
strong constituent presence on Capitol Hill. Fifty-one
participants representing seventeen states took part in
105 face-to-face meetings with lawmakers and staff.
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NPCA traveled in 2011 to six states and seventeen
cities, connecting with about 300 members of the
Peace Corps community outside of Washington, D.C.
Advocacy Director Jonathan Pearson’s
travels included a trip to Charleston WV to help
welcome NPCA’s newest member group, attendance at
50th anniversary Expos in Philadelphia and Raleigh,
and a seven-day, seven-city swing through central and
southern Texas.
Pictured below: Arizona RPCVs with Congressman Raul
Grijalva (4th from right). Photo courtesy of Desert Doves -
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Southern Arizona.
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Communications
Guided by the 2011 framing goal to consolidate and integrate the National Peace
Corps Association’s public face and brand to better show what it is and what the
Association does, the Communications team had a very busy and successful year.
The 50th anniversary year of the Peace Corps started
off on difficult note from a communications
standpoint. The entire world was deeply saddened by
the death in January of R. Sargent Shriver, founder of
the Peace Corps and one of our country’s most
inspiring leaders of the twentieth century. Also in
January, the ABC News program 20/20 aired a
devastating report about violence and sexual assault in
the Peace Corps. In the wake of both of these events,
NPCA played an important role by informing people
about the latest developments, and providing online
fora where community members could express their
thoughts and concerns.
With excellent work by media consultant Alison
Beckwith, NPCA garnered considerable favorable
media attention in 2011 despite the challenging
communications climate. NPCA’s Global House
parties in March generated many positive news stories,
as did the Around the World Expos through the spring,
and NPCA’s participation in the International Folk Art
Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. in July. The release
of the NPCA/Civic Enterprises report, “A Call to
Peace,” was perfectly timed to be released to kick off
the week of the September 50th anniversary events.
The report was referenced by Time Magazine, The
Chronicle of Philanthropy and subsequently
mentioned on the White House blog. The NPCA gala
received a full page photo spread in the Sunday Style
section of the Washington Post.
Overall, in response to NPCA outreach, close to 100
different media outlets ran stories about the National
Peace Corps Association and the Peace Corps’ 50th
anniversary. A few notable outlets that deserve special
mentioning: Alaska Airlines Magazine, San Jose
Mercury News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The
Huffington Post, The Oregonian, The Sacramento Bee,
The Washington Examiner, Time Magazine, US News
& World Report, and Voice of America-Daybreak. The
National Peace Corps Association also secured stories
in various media outlets in the U.S. as well as those
overseas including Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria,
Sweden, and Uganda.
Throughout 2011, NPCA continued to make
aggressive use of social media as a way to connect
with the Peace Corps community and to raise and
amplify the profile of NPCA.
By the end of 2011, NPCA’s Facebook page
surpassed 13,000 fans, and Facebook links continued
to be one of the top three channels by which people
visited the NPCA website.
The NPCA Twitter account (@pcorpsconnect) ended
the year with over 5,400 followers, while NPCA’s
Africa Rural Connect Twitter account (@ideasforafrica)
had over 8,200 followers, many of them from outside
the United States.
NPCA staff took advantage of opportunities to speak to
nonprofit audiences and present their knowledge
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about social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube.
In April, NPCA’s website was featured on Nonprofit
Tech 2.0 as an example of how to integrate social
media on a website, and also in April, as one of ten
nonprofits that had “found its voice on Facebook.”
In June NPCA launched a weekly #RPCVchat on
Twitter and found it to be a great way to build
community among serving Volunteers and RPCVs.
Ning.com — the platform upon which NPCA’s custom
social network is built — chose to highlight NPCA on
its home page as a “case study.” NPCA also provided
information to the founder of Ning.com for an article
which appeared on Forbes.com.
Building / Highlights of “A Call to Peace” survey /
Peace Corps at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Fall)
and Technology Innovations / 50th Anniversary Events
in Washington, D.C. (Winter).
Looking ahead
As the Peace Corps community and the National
Peace Corps Association look ahead to the next 50
years, several initiatives are planned. In conjunction
with the Board, NPCA staff will work to revisit and
update the vision, mission and goals. We will engage
all of our tools to support Project Find the 250K, an
effort to locate every Volunteer who has ever served in
the Peace Corps. And in our ongoing effort to support
RPCVs, NPCA will launch a new job site.
Subscriptions to the monthly NPCA E-newsletter grew
to over 37,000 subscribers in 2011, with a strong
“open rate.” In August NPCA mailed a special 50th
anniversary edition of the E-News to promote the
September anniversary events.
Under the 2011 cooperative agreement with Peace
Corps, the agency purchased enough issues of
WorldView magazine so that every Volunteer could
receive a copy. WorldView themes for 2011 were
Food Security/Remembering Sarge / 50th Anniversary
(Spring); Innovations in Water (Summer); Green
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NPCA Online Store
In 2011, NPCA launched a
new online store, managed
by the company Music
Today, which introduced a
host of new and updated
Peace Corps-related logo
products.
“Skins” for electronic products,
glassware, newly designed t-shirts, mugs, lapel pins,
flags, hats, cling decals, as well as the perennially
popular and much-requested Peace Corps patch --
these just some of the items that can be found at
http://peacecorpsconnect.shop.musictoday.com.
feedback that NPCA received in previous years.
Wearing logo merchandise is a great way to find Peace
Corps people in the most unexpected places!
All of the products are sweatshop-free and, where
applicable, use organic materials, in response to
Africa Rural Connect
In 2011, the Africa Rural Connect
program received another grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
further expand the site and also offer
an opportunity to form partnerships
with other outside organizations.
The innovative online incubator for agribusiness plans
continued to draw grassroots ideas from those who
have lived on the ground in Africa, namely rural
farmers, Peace Corps volunteers, and members of the
African Diaspora. NPCA launched the Africa Rural
Connect Essay Contest partnered with key groups
including World Policy Journal and notable leaders
including the first female editor of a South African
newspaper, Ferial Haffajee, and a former World Food
Prize Recipient, Dr. Hans Herren. Over 11,000
individuals have created profiles on the website from
130 countries. In May, Project Manager Molly
Mattessich was asked to speak about Africa Rural
Connect and social media at the Secretary of State’s
Young Leaders Symposium which was a part of the
week-long Global Diaspora Forum.
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The
Third
Goal
Is Our
First Goal
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Global Education
Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary focused attention throughout the year on “bringing
the world back home.”
The expanded attention from the media, the general
public and, particularly, the wide Peace Corps
community offered opportunities for sharing the
stories of Peace Corps in more ways than the National
Peace Corps Association could count. NPCA shares
here some of the distinct highlights:
• NPCA Global Education. NPCA’s signature
education program celebrated its 15th anniversary
in 2011. With this program, NPCA is recognized
throughout the education community for its focus on
compiling and disseminating resources to help
educators bring a global perspective to classrooms
and communities - the “Third Goal” of Peace Corps.
With particular thanks to the in-kind contributions
of Susan Neyer and Angene Wilson, NPCA continues
offering a comprehensive online Educators Toolbox,
monthly e-newsletter, quarterly PDF newsletter and
lesson plans that build on the themes of WorldView
magazine.
• RPCVs in Afterschool Programs. Through a
partnership with the New York State Afterschool
Network (NYSAN), NPCA piloted a program to
connect RPCVs to afterschool programs in Buffalo,
Long Island and New York City. Two dozen RPCVs
committed to ongoing programs reaching between
300 and 500 youth.
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• Food Security Toolkit. With thanks to ASCD for
their support, NPCA developed resources for
discussing the topic of food security in schools and
for the March 1 Global House Parties. The toolkit
now resides on the NPCA website for continued
exploration of this global issue.
• Exhibits and Presentations. NPCA took an active
role in supporting the Smithsonian’s feature of the
Peace Corps as one of its three themes for the 2011
Folklife Festival on the National Mall. NPCA
President Kevin Quigley and Vice President Anne
Baker shared a conversation on the “Peace Porch.”
Staff members visited with RPCVs in the Reunion
Tent. With over a million visitors, the Festival
needed the help of lots of volunteers and many
RPCVs rose to the challenge. At year end, NPCA
once again headed the International Alley for the
National Council for the Social Studies annual
conference.
Looking Ahead
While NPCA continues with the work outlined above,
the organization is particularly excited to develop an
educational service travel program for NPCA
members. NPCA’s program will be uniquely designed
to educate people about the work of current and
returned Peace Corps Volunteers while at the same
time offering an opportunity to work directly on
service projects. NPCA hopes to offer our first trip in
late 2012, with more to follow!
• Cooperative Agreement with Peace Corps. This
agreement allowed NPCA to collaborate with Peace
Corps around the 50th anniversary in general and
the Third Goal in particular. Planning teams
involving NPCA member groups and Peace Corps
headquarters and Regional Recruitment Office staff
put on nine Around the World Expos that attracted
nearly 3,500 attendees. RPCVs showcased their
work and Peace Corps and NPCA hosted workshops
for potential applicants and educators looking to
bring a unique perspective on global issues and
service into their classrooms.
• SIT Scholarships. NPCA is proud to partner with
the SIT Graduate Institute to offer $10,000
scholarships to NPCA members for study at SIT.
Congratulations to our 2011 award winners:
Amanda Drapcho, Erica Fredrikson, Michael Maffie,
and Jesse Routte.
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Encore Service Corps
International
NPCA continued its Joint Project with Encore Service Corps International through
2011.
Established in 2004, Encore recruits and places
skilled short term volunteers with locally-based nongovernmental
organizations. During the Joint Project,
we focused on refining the model through a demanddriven
approach targeting the health and agriculture
sectors in East Africa. Encore volunteers in 2012
continued the tradition of providing high-level
professional volunteers.
• Larry Badger spent three months with IFDC, based
in Nairobi, Kenya. In true Peace Corps fashion,
Larry had to adjust to a changing job description
once IFDC discovered his videography skills. His
videos demonstrated to donors, governments and
trade organizations the difficulties in distributing
fertilizers and supplies to farmers in land-locked
Rwanda and how to work around and avoid
counterfeit agricultural products in Uganda.
• Karen Babich and Ruth Brink built on the work
started the previous year by Encore volunteers at the
Department of Nursing (later upgraded to a School
of Nursing) at Moi University
in Eldoret, Kenya. Funded by
Johnson & Johnson, the
Encore program at Moi
University recruits volunteers
to serve as temporary faculty,
teaching/role modeling and
mentoring in both
undergraduate and graduate
courses in the core areas of
nursing, particularly
pediatric, medical-surgical
and midwifery.
• Jeannine Greenfield traveled to Kenya to evaluate
the Johnson & Johnson funded program at Moi
University. Her perspective was invaluable in
suggesting improvements to strengthen the
collaboration between Encore and Moi University.
Looking Ahead
Following the NPCA Board’s decision to extend the
Joint Project, 2012 is shaping up to be a busy year for
Encore. Johnson & Johnson extended their support
for the program at Moi University. NPCA is recruiting
for volunteers in IT Systems Analysis at IFDC and
Continuing Medical Education with Jhpiego and the
Medical Association of Tanzania. In a unique
collaboration with Africa Rural Connect and IFDC,
eight volunteers will work with rural farmers through
the Farmer to Farmer program.
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Awards
NPCA hears of numerous RPCV
projects and programs that
illustrate the concept of
“Bringing the World Back
Home” or the Third Goal.
Each year one RPCV is
recognized for his or her
outstanding work through the
Sargent Shriver Distinguished
Humanitarian Award.
This award is given to a Returned Peace Corps
Volunteer who continues to make a sustained and
distinguished contribution to humanitarian causes at
home or abroad or is an innovative social entrepreneur
whose actions will bring about significant long-term
change. The award was named to recognize the
tremendous contributions of the first Peace Corps
Director, Sargent Shriver, in the founding and
development of the Peace Corps.
The recipient of the 2011 Sargent Shriver award was
Sam Goldman. During Sam’s Peace Corps service in
Guinagourou, Benin, the son of one of his neighbors
was badly burned by a kerosene lamp (one of many
thousands of such accidents around the world). Sam
vowed to find a way to provide people in the
developing world with safer, brighter, and more
affordable lighting. Upon his return to the U.S., he
enrolled in Stanford Business School and it was there
that d.light design was born. His start-up company
aims to improve the lives of 100 million individuals by
2020, beginning by replacing every kerosene lantern
with revolutionary energy and lighting solutions that
are affordable, durable and energy-efficient.
Sen. Harris Wofford presented a new award this year
— the Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award — to Atiku
Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria,
business leader and university founder. Adamu
Abubakar accepted the award on behalf of his father,
while his father’s Peace Corps teacher, Steve Clapp,
looked on.
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Statement of Activity
National Peace Corps Association 2011
Expenses
• Membership $142,999
• Publications $282,416
• Education / Advocacy / ARC $1,219,878
• Management/General $126,913
• Fundraising $89,575
Total: $1,861,781
Revenues
• Earned Income $312,990
• Advertising $189,953
• Grants / Contracts $643,600
• Contributions $407,549
• Membership $168,307
Total: $1,722,399
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Thank You!
The 50th Anniversary year was successful in large part due to the extreme
generosity of the NPCA family. Many of you gave one time special gifts while
others continued to support the programs that keep NPCA moving forward into the
future. Thank you for supporting the spirit and accomplishments of the Peace
Corps.
Diamond
Anonymous
John Alexander
Will Alexander
Ron Boring
Sheana & Lewis Butler
Janet W. & Wylie Greig
Jan M. Guifarro
John Y. Keffer
Marianne & Robert Smythe
Gold
Tony Barclay
Michael J. Peter
Susan Flaherty & Kevin F. F. Quigley
Gordon L. Radley
Silver
Priscilla S. Goldfarb
Juliane M. Heyman
Arlene M. Mitchell
* Kevin O’Donnell
Rosemary George Straley
Judith Whitney & Robert C. Terry, Jr.
*deceased
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Directors Circle
Anonymous
Alice M. Alexander & Fred Mosher
Dr. Jack Allison
J. Henry Ambrose
Bruce Anderson
Anne E. Baker
Rowland F. Bennett
Jayne Booker
Thomas O. Burwell
Joseph J. Chapon
Lisa Blocklinger & Nicholas Craw
William R. Davis
Kay & Kevin Dixon
George T. Duncan
John E. Earhart
Helen M. Eaton
David H. Elliott
Newell Flather
Allen W. Fletcher
Diane & Charles Frankel
Anthony F. Gasbarro
Richard C. Glazer
Arlene Goldberg
Elizabeth McKee & James Gore
Bonnie Gottlieb
Robert Graulich
Stephen Paul Groff
Natalie Gee & Michael Hall
Kathleen M. Harnig
Franklin R. Innes
Andrea L. Johnson
Darryl N. Johnson
Roland Johnson
Lynn Juhl
Elizabeth F. Karplus
Karen J. Keefer
Larry Keefer
Thomas M. Kerst
Sharon Stash & Deepak Khatry
Virginia Kirkwood
Sharon & S. Damon Kletzien
Christopher Klose
Sandra M. Lauffer
Kenneth A. Lehman
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Directors Circle
David Locksin
David P. Magnani
Judith & Raymond McGuire
Bruce McNamer
Ann & Mike Moore
Russell E. Morgan, Jr.
Russell E. and Elizabeth W. Morgan Foundation
Paul T. Murphy
Susan M. Neyer
John D. Pearson
Jonathan E. Pearson
Mary C. Pendleton
Donald J. Putrimas
K. Richard Pyle
William S. Reese
Eleanor Revelle
John E. Riggan
John D. Rockefeller, IV
Elena B. Russell
Christopher Vincent Ryan
Paul Sack
Jack Schafer
George Scharffenberger
Gary L. Schulze
Judy Erickson & Douglas K. Shifflet
Mary & Paul Slawson
Susan Solomon
Kirk Talbott
Stephen B. Thayer
Ventura County Peace Corps Association
Terry Vogt
Patricia A. Wand
Mal Warwick
Steve Werner
Anna Whitcomb Knight
Todd Scripps Wilkinson
Angene & Jack Wilson
Leslie F. Wilson
Steven E. Wolf
Thomas W. Wolf
Frank M. Yates
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Contributors
Stephen Abott
Herb Adelman
Jacqueline Alcorn
Carl Kim Allender
Richard Ames
David W. Anderson
Judith L. Appleton
James S. Bancroft
Debra Banks
Michelle Bashaw
Thomas Conrad Bayer
John Beasley
Lorrie Beck
Keith W. Bell
Edmund H. Benner
Stephanie Lynn Berens
William Bergquist
Barbara Berman
David D. Black
Ben Bloom
Lorena M. Blount
Frances E. Boardman
Don Michael Boileau
Irving R. Borden
John C. Bost
Barbara J. Brady
William E. Brenneman
Norma E. Brewster
Roger C. Brown
Constance M. Brunn
Pearle Burlingame
Paul & Barbara D. Bussey
Jennifer Sue Butler
James C. Cairns
Capella University
Rita D. Carey
E. Timothy Carroll
C.J. Smith Castagnaro
Carol Sue Chapman
Marilyn L. Charles
Lawrence Doyle Childers
James A. Christopherson
Beverly A. Clary
Jeanne E. Clayton
Jonathan F. Cohanne
Kathleen Conlan
Susan H. Connolly
Virginia Lee Coon
Susanne B. Cooper
Geri Critchley
LuAnn Csernotta
Donald J. Dakin
Jean Britt Daves
Robert H. Davis Jr.
Rosella De Riemer
Kevin Delany
Daniel Demecillo
Bonnie Denoyer
James E. Diamond
John and Mary Dickson
Rosalyn P. Doggett
Charles L. Donahue Jr
Mary M. Donovan
Henry L Doyle
Phyllis C. Draper
Carol Dries
H. Jesse Dubin
Linda C. Duffy
John Dunlop
Pamela B. Dewulf
John Dwyer
Steven Ehrlich
Donald K. Erickson
John D. Evans
Georgene W. Fabian
Lowell H. Fewster
James M. Fields
Barbara Parker Fischlowitz-
Leong
Daniel H. Fitts
Anne Fitzgerald
Stephanie FitzGerald
Denny FitzPatrick
Fiona Flaherty
Virginia Fleming
Patricia Cole Foster
Jill M. Fox
Thomas Fox
Edward R. Frankel
Jack E. Fry
Claire Butkovich Gadbois
Pat Garcia de Nixon
Paul D. Garriepy
Lorraine Goldman
Alison Graham
Frank Greco
Pamela W. Greene
Beth and Neil Groundwater
Henry J. Gwiazda, II
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Contributors
Gretchen Ott Hall
Philip K. Hamilton
Peter J. Hansen
Lonna H. Harkrader
David W. Harrop
Bonnie Hash
Candace Heaphy
Carl F. Herbold
Sandra Hertlein Rouse
Joseph R. Higdon
Gretchen M. Hillman
Ted Hochstadt
John Hollister
Samuel M. Holtzman
Arthur J Horowitz
Lee R. Hougen
Ray Hubener
Cynthia S. Huse
Harriett L. James
Lenta Lynn Jarrett
Kay Donahue Jennings
Holly A. Johnson
Samuel B. Johnson
Penny Jonscher-Kipp
Barbara A. Junge
Nathaniel B. Kallon
Marta F. Kealey
Ardith Keck
Karen A. Kelleher
Shirley M. Kempton
Jane Elizabeth King
James Kirchhoffer
Barbara Ann Knutson
Laurence K. Koff
Hilary Kouhana
Thomas Kramer
Carol Kuhlmann
Jennifer M. Larkin
Charles R. Larson
Patty Tlapek Laughlin
Demetra Lawrence
Kevin Sean Leahy
Sharon Lease
Hannah H. Leckman
Gary Lefkowitz
John Levy
Sally L. Lindover
Letitia M. Lladoc
Phil Lopes
Sonny Low
Sally Luke
Gregory C. MacCrone
Sally Maclay Dayton
Matthew Marek
Kathryn A. Matchett
Daniel Matthews
Wanda Mayberry
Angela Mccaffrey Rosenberg
Pamela C. McCarthy
Janeice V. McConnell
Sherrill McCullough Davis
Catherine M. McCutcheon
Jill E. McGovern
Maggie McLaughlin
Maryann McLoughlin-O'Donnell
Therese McWhinney
Leila and Imran Meghji
Richard E. Merritt
Chris Meyer
Ward C. Miles
Christian W. Miller
Bernadette & David A. Miron
Naoma Mize
James Mohan, Jr.
Donald Mooers
Ronald D. Morgan
Gabrielle Mulvihill
Richard Murphy
Bruce Muskin
Carolyn M. Myers
Edward Nef
Larry K. Nelson
Theresa Neuroth
Marianne Newman
Johnathan Nguyen
Mariette E. Norbom
Harry S. Nungesser
Elizabeth O'Brien
Malcolm J. Odell, Jr.
Jerry Y. Ogawa
Cathy Y Olson
Kelley O'Neill Lin
Richard L. Ottinger
Jeremy Padbury
Nancy Parker
Sue H. Patterson
Lori Payne
Philip M. Peek
Ann Pfingsten
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Contributors
Katherine Pickard
Sally Pierce McCandless
Anne Pirie McCready
John Poertner
Emmanuel Pons
Kenneth E. Porter
Russell R. Pratt
Paige Prescott
Virginia A. Pruitt
Margaret Y. Purves
Melanie Anne Reda
David Michael Reed
Peter H. Reid
Leslie Ann Reingold
Daniel Reyes-Canosee
Joanne Richards
Margaret Riley
Patricia Leslie Roberts
John H. Rogers
Robert J. Rourke
Patricia A. Rupel
Stuart W. Russell
Elizabeth Pathy Salett
Donald Rowell Sanders, Jr.
Eileen Sunada Sarasohn
Warren C. Sawyer
Michael J. Schaffer
Janet N. Schilling
Joseph J. Schoder
Elizabeth M. Schwartz
David Schweidenback
Alexander Shakow
Rachel Shattuck
Leo Eugene Shelley
Lawrence H. Shirley
Kimberly Sims
Linda Slonksnes
Alice J. Smith
Jeanne W. Smith
Philip E. Smith
Virginia Smyly
John R. Sneed
John Snow
Dorothy Soper
Raymond J. Speigl
Elizabeth Spurgeon
Robert M. Star
Edith Sternberg
Deborah Stewart
Jennifer Strauss Gurss
Michele Ann Strobridge
James C. Swank
Catherine Swenson
Jill Swiss
Margo Tabet
Ted R. Tate
J. Michael Taylor
Alaina Thole
Martha Merino Thomas
Paulette Q. Thompson
Mary M. Thorne
Rita Thrun
Karen Tiregol
Ruth A. Toth
James Tucker
Marie K. Tymrak
Madeline Uraneck
Vincent Valvo
Kelly Brest Van Kempen
Amy A. Vandegrift
Irvin S. Varkonyi
Doris M. Vincent
Linda D. Voss
Michael A. Waite
Vera Mae Walsh
Melanie R. Wasserman
Mary Lou Weathers
Betty F. Weitz
Janet E. Wenninger
Janice O. West
Debbie Dodd Wheelwright
Marcia Ann White
Carol Wilcox
Kathleen A. Williams-Ging
Sara Willson
Renee Wolforth
Melvia L. Wong
John C. Young
Caroline Susan Zill
Fortune Zuckerman
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Foundations and In-Kind
Foundations
American Express Foundation
Avant! Foundation
Bank of America
Ben & Jerry’s
Bristol-Myers Squibb
From War to Peace
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Johnson & Johnson Corporation
The Marpat Foundation
Madecasse
Public Welfare
Putumayo
RPCVs of Wisconsin-Madison
SerendipiTea
Shearwater Foundation
Special Olympics
The After School Corporation
The Firelight Foundation
The Hippie Coffee Company
The SEVEN Fund
The UN Foundation
Unilever
In-Kind
The Honorable Atiku Abubakar
Tony Barclay
Don Dakin
Kay Dixon
Colin Dreizin
Google
Susan Flaherty
Graphics In Atlanta
ICTV1 Networks
Susan Marie Neyer
David Lena Photography
David Lockshin
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin -
Madison
Angene Wilson
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Advisory Council
Tony Barclay (resigned 9/11)
Founder, President, Development Practitioner’s Forum
Carol Bellamy
Executive, World Learning
Ron Boring
Former Executive, Vodafone Japan
Nicholas Craw
President, Automobile Competition Committee for the
U.S.
Sam Farr
U.S. Congressman, California
John Garamendi
U.S. Congressman, California
Mark Gearan
President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Tony Hall
Former Member of U.S. House of Representatives,
Ohio
Former U.S. Ambassador to Food and Agriculture
Organization
William E. “Wilber” James
Managing General Partner, The Rockport Capital
Partners
Roland Johnson
Former Executive, The Grundy Foundation
John Keffer
Chairman, Atlantic Fund Administration
Virginia Kirkwood
Owner, Shawnee Holdings, Inc.
Richard M. Krieg
President & CEO, The Horizon Foundation
Kenneth Lehman
Founder, Winning Workplaces
C. Payne Lucas
Consultant, AllAfrica Foundation
Kevin O’Donnell* (Through February 2012)
Founder, O’Donnell and Associates
Gordon Radley
Former Executive, LucasFilms
John E. Riggan
Former Executive, TCC Group
Mark Schneider
Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group
Donna Shalala
President, University of Miami
Paul Slawson
Former Executive, InterPacific Co.
Sharon Stash
Director, John Snow International, Inc.
F. Chapman Taylor
Senior Vice President and Research Director
Capital International Research Inc.
Joan Timoney
Director for Advocacy and External Relations,
Women’s Refugee Commission
Harris Wofford
Former U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania
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NPCA Board, Staff, Consultants and Interns
Board of Directors
Staff
Consultants
Tony Barclay, Chair (as of 9/11)
Jan Guifarro, Chair (until 9/11)
Patricia A. Wand, Vice Chair
Janet Greig, Treasurer
Gary Schulze, Secretary
Kate Schachter, Forum
Coordinator, ex officio
Kevin F. F. Quigley, ex officio
Michael K. Baldwin (until 9/11)
Jayne Booker (as of 9/11)
Harris Bostic II
Jill M. Fox (until 12/11)
Priscilla Goldfarb
James Gore
Robert Graulich
Steve Groff (as of 9/11)
Joseph Hindman (until 9/11)
Hope Johnson (until 7/11)
Darryl N. Johnson
Barbara Junge (as of 9/11)
David Magnani
Bruce McNamer
Paul Murphy (until 9/11)
Mike Peter
Jensy Patterson Richards
Susan Solomon (until 7/11)
Sharon Stash (until 9/11)
Joby Taylor (as of 9/11)
Kevin F. F. Quigley
President
Anne Baker
Vice President
Lissan Anfune
ARC Project Assistant
Emily Bello
Manager of Membership and
Operations
Erica Burman
Director of Communications
Khalisa Jacobs
Director of Development
Erin Madsen, Global Education
Program Assistant (until 5/11)
Molly Mattessich
Manager of Online Initiatives
Jonathan Pearson
Advocacy Director
Alison Beckwith
Media Relations
Lollie Commodore
Finance
Natalie Hall
50th Anniversary
JoAnna Haugen
Alumni News
Kim Matranga (5/11-9/11)
50th Anniversary
Aura Kirstein (until 9/11)
50th Anniversary
Interns
Abad Allawi
Liana Bennett
Brooke Byington
Ty Diringer
Greg Doolitle
Jocelyn Fong
Susan Stine
Zoe Quint
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