[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 682

[Garry & Anne Krischock]

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  1. 7: Changes for Rotary peace programs From: Sunil K Zachariah 

  2. 1328: Rotary ranked among top five NGOs for corporate partnerships From: Sunil K Zachariah 
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  1. 1327: Changes for Rotary peace programs 
Posted by: "Sunil K Zachariah" sunilkzach at yahoo.co.uk   sunilkzach 
Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:20 pm (PST) 
Changes for Rotary peace programs

By Antoinette Tuscano 

The fine-tuning continues for The Rotary Foundation's two peace 
programs: the five-year-old Rotary World Peace Fellowships and the 
year-old Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies.

To help increase the applicant pool, multicountry districts now can 
submit more than one application to the two-year graduate Rotary 
World Peace Fellowships program, said Rotary Centers Committee member 
Carolyn Schuetz. Initially, each district could propose only one 
applicant, but this policy created some disadvantages, especially for 
multicountry districts in places where Rotary would like to encourage 
more applicants, such as Africa. As before, districts can propose as 
many qualified applicants for the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies 
program as they wish.

Another development is that applicants now can be sponsored by 
districts outside their home area, given that some parts of the world 
don't have a Rotary club, Schuetz said at the Rotary World Peace 
Symposium, held 14­-16 June in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Changes also have been made to the length of some of the programs. 
Several were shortened to improve their curriculum, help students 
move through them more quickly, and assist with budgeting issues, 
said Schuetz. The program was reduced from 24 to 15 months at the 
University of Bradford in Bradford, England; from 21 to 18 months at 
the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and from 21 
to 16 months at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

In addition, the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace 
and conflict resolution are now located at six rather than seven 
sites. Sciences Po in Paris no longer has a center. There are now six 
Rotary Centers at seven universities, including one shared between 
Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It's possible that additional centers could be added to the program, 
said Schuetz. About 10 universities around the world have expressed 
an interest in housing a Rotary Center, though the Trustees haven't 
made a decision about changing the current structure at this time. 
The topic will be discussed at the annual Rotary Centers Committee 
meeting in October.

Meanwhile, the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies program in Bangkok, 
Thailand, "has evolved, and we need to communicate further what's 
going on there. Often, Rotarians and potential students don't know 
about it," Schuetz said.

The program at Chulalongkorn University opened in 2006. It differs 
from the older Rotary Centers because it features a three-month 
curriculum meant for midcareer participants. "It's a rare 
professional development opportunity" that allows working people to 
upgrade their knowledge and put it into immediate action to resolve 
conflicts, said Kalyan M. Banerjee, chair of the Rotary Peace and 
Conflict Studies Selection Committee. In the future, the Trustees and 
the Rotary Centers Committee will look at how this program is fitting 
into the overall plan.

"We have a wonderful program, and we'll continue to make it better," 
said Schuetz.

Source:Rotary International News
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2. 1328: Rotary ranked among top five NGOs for corporate partnerships 
Posted by: "Sunil K Zachariah" sunilkzach at yahoo.co.uk   sunilkzach 
Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:46 pm (PST) 
Rotary ranked among top five NGOs for corporate partnerships

The Financial Times has ranked Rotary International one of the top 
five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for corporate partnerships. 
In the newspaper's special supplement, Corporate Citizenship and 
Philanthropy, Rotary came in fifth in the global rankings of 34 
finalists. 

Published in conjunction with the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 
held 5-6 July in Geneva, the supplement reached some 1.4 million 
senior business executives, industry and government leaders, and 
private/institutional investors across 140 countries. 

The summit, which was chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 
featured an international roster of business leaders, government 
ministers, and heads of civil society and focused on such key 
challenges to building future markets as human rights and climate 
change. RI Director Bernard Rosen of Belgium represented RI President 
Wilfrid J. Wilkinson at the event.

UN Global Compact and Dalberg Global Development Advisors, who 
developed the report in preparation for the summit, surveyed 20,000 
companies worldwide, identifying 550 NGOs, UN agencies, foundations, 
and other organizations with which companies had partnered, and 
profiled 85 of those based on company ratings. 

Organizations that ranked higher than RI showcased long-standing 
partnerships with corporations. Because RI's global partnerships 
include only UN agencies and other nonprofit organizations - and only 
Rotary clubs and districts have partnered with corporations to date - 
the organization's ranking should be considered exemplary. RI has a 
long and distinguished history of collaborating with other 
organizations in the name of humanitarian service. Learn more about 
how Rotary works with other groups.

Read the special report at The Financial Times Web site 
http://www.ft.com/reports/philanthropy2007 

Source:Rotary International News 
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