February 26, 2014
Helping Thousands of Small Businesses in Southern Africa to Cope with the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS
WASHINGTON, D.C.–International Executive Service Corps (IESC) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the successful BizAIDS program set up in Zambia in 2004 by IESC, through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, to help small businesses and local communities mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.  BizAIDS…

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February 25, 2014

“Volunteering … can be a good way to get your foot in the door and determine whether you enjoy living and working abroad. International Executive Service Corps (www.iesc.org) recruits retirees from a variety of professional backgrounds and matches them with foreign companies. For instance, one volunteer who spent his career as a vice-president at McCormick & Company has traveled to Morocco and Sri Lanka to help spice…

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February 21, 2014

Washington, D.C. – IESC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the five year Capacity Building of Cambodia’s Local Organizations Program (CBCLO), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a Cooperative Agreement with the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA).

CBCLO aims to build the institutional capacity of Cambodian NGOs ‘ part of the broader USAID Forward…

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December 17, 2013

In Morocco, many Commercial Development Organizations (CDOs) – trade associations, cooperatives, business development organizations and chambers of commerce ‘ lack the capacity to support their members because of financial and technical limitations.

The Morocco Commercial Development Organizations Support Program, implemented by IESC and funded by the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI),…

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December 9, 2013

Over 90 heads of state are planning to visit South Africa this week to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. Mandela’s memorial service will take place Tuesday, December 10th, and today we would like to share some examples of the work IESC has done in South Africa since 1992.

We are proud to have led two programs in South Africa under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. This included the JPMorgan-funded IESC program…

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November 21, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ambassador Tom Miller, President and CEO of International Executive Service Corps (IESC) discussed the competition for global talent at the Shenzhen Forum on Competition for Global Talent earlier this month.

President and CEO, Ambassador Miller, said, “I think that newly retired Americans, which we call baby boomers, are a tremendous source of talent for China in its search for global…

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