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The Grant Writing Workshop presents
Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop

May 13-14, 2010
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
San Francisco, California

The Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop  is a hands-on, intensive session that leads participants through the entire grant proposal and funding research processes. Through an intense two day workshop, participants will receive an overview of program planning basics along with advanced writing techniques to develop your winning proposal. This results-based workshop allows each student to walk out with a thorough proposal outline, completed worksheets necessary for proposal submission, and a starting collection of publications and resources to build your development library. This course is designed to provide your organization with the competitive advantage necessary in our modern grants award environment.

The Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will cover the following during the two day workshop:
 
(1) Fundamentals of Program Planning
 
This session will teach professional program development essentials and program evaluation. While most grantsmanship  "workshops" treat program development and evaluation as separate from the writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall program planning and proposal writing.
 
(2) Strategic Funding Research
 
At its foundation, this session will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will emphasize a strategic funding research approach that encourages writers to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant  seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as part of a strategic grant  acquisition effort.

(3) Professional Proposal Writing
 
Designed to obtain tangible results, this session will make each student an overall proposal writing  specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, and the do's and don'ts of grant writing, this session is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this session's intent to illustrate grant  writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this session will conclude with a completed proposal outline.

TO REGISTER:

Tuition for this two day workshop is $399.00.

Those interested in attending must register at www.TheGrantWritingWorkshop.org. Registration will remain open until the maximum amount of registered attendees has been reached.

For more Information about this training, please call us at (888) 814-6912.

ABOUT US

From major foundation programs to stimulus grants, The Grant Writing Workshop has offered straight forward and results-oriented proposal writing and development courses led by experienced development professionals for over 20 years. Our approach is modern and simple. Our emphasis on storytelling and proposal structure avoids unnecessary confusion. We train competent proposal writing experts and provide our participants the tools they need to simplify the grant proposal process. The Grant Writing Workshop has trained thousands of nonprofit, government agency, and academic research professionals our proven strategies and approaches to developing grant proposals that get funded.

In the summer of 2010 the first “Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience” will take place in Karlsruhe, in the south of Germany. It will be cooperatively organized by Karlshochschule – International University and AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V. It approaches relevant topics in the field of intercultural management and communication and is intended to foster the intercultural perspective within the field of management theory as well as to develop applied solutions for the problems in business and society. Through the Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience we hope to continue the dialogue between researchers and practitioners of different backgrounds.

The Summer Academy will last three weeks (August 16th - September 3rd 2010) and students can enroll for either two or three weeks. The academy will offer lectures on Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Management, Cultures and Conflicts, European Cultural Studies, Intercultural Training and Coaching as well as Intercultural Teams and Leadership.

All courses will include workshop sessions with complementary theoretical and practical content offered by academic staff and AFS-trainers which are experts with large experience in international environments.

The Summer Academy which will be held in English is open to anyone aged 18-35 with a demonstrable interest in the field of intercultural communications and management. Primary target groups are undergraduate students and young professionals with a background or interest in intercultural experiences.
Participants will be awarded a Certificate after successfully completing courses at the Academy. Students who successfully complete two (three) courses within two (three) weeks will not only be awarded a certificate but also earn four (six) ECTS.

We would be very pleased by your interest in the Summer Academy and we would highly appreciate you passing on the information to interested audiences.

For more information on the program, the registration process as well as scholarships, please visit the webpage: http://summeracademy-karlsruhe.org

For over 15 years, Ruben Hernandez (member of Sietar Germany) has been compiling national surveys focused on how different cultures want to hear and see business and sales presentations. They are now available online.

Each article is divided into three sections totaling between 1700 - 2200 words. The first section is a diagrammed profile – using 13 cultural dimensions linked to presentations. An explanation of how these dimensions express themselves in presentations can be found on the website at the link given below. The second section covers the precise pointers on how to adapt your presentation in specific areas that include: acceptable and non-acceptable attitude of the speaker, preferred speaker qualities and body language, presentation structure, degree of background needed, content differences, listening patterns, key persuasion buttons, areas to highlight (and ignore), summary content, Q & A, and even how to dress properly for your talk. Section three is a list of likes and dislikes (do’s and don’ts) that functions as a concise summary of each article.

The pointers are skewed toward business presentations, but non-business-related speakers will also glean useful information here. There are currently 15 articles online – with more on the way; each one costs € 11.95. 

Link: http://www.ip-academy.de/index.php?id=231

Brief Bio

Ruben Hernandez (American) lives in the Munich Area of Germany. He has a B.A. in Cultural Geography, an M.A. in Education, and an MBA. He is a freelance intercultural and business-skills trainer who has worked mostly for Fortune 500 companies on 4 continents. He, along with his team, has given his banner seminar, “Powerful Presentations – Around the World” to over 4000 participants from over 60 different countries.

Call for Proposals
Proposal Deadline Extended: March 20, 2010

The Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary's College is pleased to call for proposals for its second international conference on Women as Intercultural Leaders.  Please see the announcement below and feel free to spread the information widely.

 Women as Intercultural Leaders: 
Imagination, Innovation, Integrity
Second interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of women's studies, international and multicultural education, entrepreneurship, and leadership development hosted by

Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
September 30 – October 2, 2010
(Thursday noon to noon Saturday)

In 2010 the Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) marks 10 years of fostering the intercultural competence critical for the next generation of women leaders across the Saint Mary’s campus, connecting with communities at the local, state, national, and global levels. This interactive conference brings together theorists, scholars, professionals, educators, community activists, practitioners, and students.  Participants have opportunities for networking, sharing best practices, and joining a national conversation about emerging work on the following conference themes:

•    Thinking in new ways about women’s leadership and promoting women as change agents
•    Developing women’s entrepreneurship
•    Articulating ethical and spiritual foundations
•    Internationalizing and interculturalizing the curriculum and co-curriculum
•    Building collaborative relationships between colleges and communities and across disciplines

Visit CWIL’s conference website www.saintmarys.edu/cwil-conference to download the Conference Proposal Form. Additional conference information will be posted on CWIL’s Web site as it becomes available.

Mana Derakhshani, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Coordinator of the Intercultural Studies Program
Associate Director
Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-284-4058

Hello! My name is Dr. Nina Cole and I am an Associate Professor from Ryerson University in Toronto. I attended the same expat/relocation conference as you did last spring/summer.  Your help is being requested for my latest research study of the reasons for ‘early return’ from expat assignments from the perspective of the actual families involved. This information is critical in order to help reduce the often-painful circumstances behind early returns through better pre-assignment preparation.  

 If you know anyone who has returned home early from an expat assignment, could you please extend an invitation for them to visit my website at www.ninacole.net and click on the ‘Expat Questionnaire’. Questions can be directed to me at n2cole@ryerson.ca.

The questionnaire is short and is primarily asking expats/spouses to write in their own words the reasons they returned home early.  It is anonymous and confidential, and will be available on the website until September 2010. Thank you very much!

Dr. Nina Cole
Associate Professor
Ted Rogers School of Management
Ryerson University
575 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario 
Canada   M5G 2C5

An EU Perspective of Conflict Resolution, Prevention and ‘Provention’

Date: Tuesday, April 13th

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

Location: Columbia University, Room: TBA

Presentation followed by reception

PLEASE RSVP

In this presentation Dr. Demetrios A. Theophylactou, Senior Associate Member of the European Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, will explore the legal dimension of the EU model, from a comparative (theoretical) perspective, with respect to its (potentially positive) effects on conflict resolution, prevention and ‘provention’, i.e., moving beyond prevention toward the creation of conditions that are conducive to sustained, cooperative interaction between peoples and states. [i]

The analysis touches on post-modern/ liberal democracy theory as well as soft power. It posits that supranational legal institutions are likely to promote trust and induce cooperative behavior both within states and across borders.

[i] Burton, John W.  Conflict: Resolution and Provention. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.  

Please RSVP to the event by emailing Juliette de Wolfe at dewolfe@tc.edu

Juliette de Wolfe

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology and Education

International and Transcultural Studies

Teachers College, Columbia University

Project Coordinator

International Center for Cooperation

and Conflict Resolution

212.678.3402

www.tc.edu/icccr

The Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary's College is pleased to call for proposals for its second international conference on Women as Intercultural Leaders.  Please see the announcement below and feel free to spread the information widely. 

Women as Intercultural Leaders: 
Imagination, Innovation, Integrity
Second interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of women's studies, international and multicultural education, entrepreneurship, and leadership development hosted by

Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
September 30 – October 2, 2010
(Thursday noon to noon Saturday)

Call for Proposals
Proposal Deadline: March 1st, 2010

In 2010 the Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) marks 10 years of fostering the intercultural competence critical for the next generation of women leaders across the Saint Mary’s campus, connecting with communities at the local, state, national, and global levels. This interactive conference brings together theorists, scholars, professionals, educators, community activists, practitioners, and students.  Participants have opportunities for networking, sharing best practices, and joining a national conversation about emerging work on the following conference themes:

•    Thinking in new ways about women’s leadership and promoting women as change agents
•    Developing women’s entrepreneurship
•    Articulating ethical and spiritual foundations
•    Internationalizing and interculturalizing the curriculum and co-curriculum
•    Building collaborative relationships between colleges and communities and across disciplines

Visit CWIL’s conference website www.saintmarys.edu/cwil-conference to download the Conference Proposal Form. Additional conference information will be posted on CWIL’s Web site as it becomes available.

Mana Derakhshani, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Coordinator of the Intercultural Studies Program
Associate Director
Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-284-4058

Dear SIETAR-USA members the Virtual Technology Survey still needs more respondents. In order to insure significant findings we need to increase the number of non-duplicate respondents, another 50 would be helpful, more  would be even better. The survey takes only 15 minutes. The link to the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZWND2LF
As mentioned before your responses are very valuable to ascertaining what technological tools professionals are using in their professional and personal lives, what differences may exist based on the demographics of age, gender, profession and/or culture and demonstrating the importance virtual tools are playing in the delivery of training and consulting services. In order to present the results at the SIETAR-USA conference in April the survey has to be completed by the end of January.
I thank each and everyone of you for your assistance and support
Peter W Hayward

Warning: If you happen to be a traveling from Canada to the USA, be ready to NOT CARRY ON. On January 8, '10, at the Horizon Air ticket counter I was stunned to be told "You have to check that... and that..." not in reference to my suitcase, but to my computer bag and my PURSE. "It has to be thin". What? My purse, fat? “We’ll only charge you for the one bag” Oh, gee, thank you. The mad repacking scramble at the ticket counter ensued: what can I absolutely not fly without, what would most likely break, and what was hardest to replace? I stuffed what I could in my overcoat pockets, then grabbing my ticket and passport in one hand, and my laptop in the other, I dashed towards the gate area. And THEN came the security gauntlet. "What's left to inspect?" I wondered. Those of us who travel frequently know the "everything and your shoes goes in the bins" routine, but tripping the metal detector brought on a full-body wand search. "Next time, you might want to pack the necklace." Ceramic beads? The chemical inspector was the most thorough: "Don't touch anything, please. Put your hands in your pants pockets and then hold them out". As I held out my hands like a guilty child, he ran his chemical test swab over them. Then I was instructed to turn everything out of my coat pockets while the inspector went through my laptop, Blackberry, camera and all other now minimal items. He also made a thorough search through my wallet: every slot and zipper pocket. "OK, now you can put these away as I hand them to you" Shoes, scarf, suit jacket, wallet, items back in coat pockets, overcoat, PC, etc.  I know this sort of search happens every day out of many countries, but I just wasn't expecting it on a short trip to and from Canada (No such ordeal on the US side going TO Canada). To their credit, the Canadian airport personnel were very polite the whole time.  We road warriors can only hope that someone somewhere out there is actually safer... Very glad I get to be home safe in Portland!

So, have a nice day getting out of Canada, eh?

(Sent by Sue Shinomiya, Business Passort, Portland, Oregon)

Dear SIETAR Member

I am undertaking to update a survey conducted in 2006 on Virtual Technology use among SIETAR members. After six weeks of the Virtual Technology Survey data collection we have 71 SIETAR respondents or 36% of the total responding population. With less than a month left we would like to raise the number of SIETARians to 250 respondents. This will insure that the results will provide valid and significant results. With your help we can. To encourage participation the SIETAR affiliate organization that can encourage the most unduplicated member respondents to participate in the study will receive US$100.

Your responses are very valuable to ascertaining what technological tools professionals are using in their professional and personal lives, what differences may exist based on the demographics of age, gender, profession and/or culture and demonstrating the importance virtual tools are playing in the delivery of training and consulting services.

The survey requires about 15 minutes to complete.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qRckP2ed6_2bkJOg2d_2fbKG7A_3d_3d

This survey is being undertaken by Peter W Hayward, founder of EHI Consulting in consultation with Dr. George Simons of Diversophy.com and Dr. Jolanda Tromp, Consultant Intercultural Global Teamwork, both coauthors of the new Cultural Detective: Global Teamwork. Peter is a long time member of SIETAR and former member of the SIETAR International Governing Board. He has over the past seven years been involved in delivering master workshops and presentations at conferences around the issue of Virtual Technology and its uses.

The information from this survey will be presented for the first time at the SIETAR USA conference in April 14-17, 2010 in Spokane, Washington, USA and afterward through the various SIETAR affiliate sites and journals and Facebook group site, as well as in through EHI Consulting web site.

If you have questions or wish to contact Peter W Hayward of EHI Consulting you may email pwh.ehi@gmail.com.