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July 31, 2014
IESC has teamed with AARP to deliver a new volunteer program in China to advise Chinese organizations on global best practices and standards. Our first group of senior experts are currently on the ground.
Andrea Patrick discussing the new volunteer program at a meeting in Beijing earlier this year
Experienced industry professionals in food safety and meat processing, green energy…
read moreLiberia’s Golden Image award honors organizations that have made selfless contributions to peace and humanity
July 25, 2014
On July 16, the Liberia Investing for Business Expansion Program (IBEX) received the 2014 Golden Image Award for its efforts to provide technical assistance and empower local businesses. The Golden Image Award is a national Liberian award given to individuals or organizations that have made selfless…
read moreJuly 9, 2014
As America withdraws combat troops, the Afghans I have met over the past four years point to an increasingly vibrant entrepreneurial sector creating jobs and consumers ready to participate in a more stable economy. It has not gone unnoticed that Afghanistan, a nation of some 30 million people, is rich in natural resources. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that untapped mineral deposits there are worth between $900 billion…
read moreMay 30, 2014
Washington, DC — IESC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a major sub grant from Land O’Lakes International Development for the five year Yemen Competitive Agriculture Systems for High Value Crops (CASH) Program. The $24.5 million CASH Program is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a Cooperative Agreement with the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA).
The CASH…
read moreMay 8, 2014
IESC celebrates half a century of helping thousands of entrepreneurs & small businesses throughout the world
IESC was established in 1964 at the initiative of entrepreneurs and philanthropists David Rockefeller and Sol Linowitz, who saw the value of American businessmen and women providing technical and managerial advice in developing countries. President Lyndon Johnson launched IESC in the Rose Garden of the White…
May 5, 2014
November 1993. I stood at the apex of the Vietnam Memorial with former communist leaders from Kharkov, Ukraine, our faces reflected against the names of the dead etched forever into the polished black granite walls. Most everyone is moved by the memorial, and we were no exception.
We had hand-picked this delegation of 10 government administrators from Kharkov earlier in the year. My title was project manager for the…
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