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IESC Mourns the Passing of Long-Serving Board Member Richard (Dick) Aldrich, Jr.

March 5, 2026

IESC mourns the passing of long-serving and highly valued Board Member Richard (Dick) S. Aldrich, Jr. Dick left a lasting impact on IESC and the many IESC colleagues who were privileged to know him.

Specializing in corporate law, Dick spent 33 years at Shearman & Sterling, including stints in Athens, Hong Kong, and São Paulo. Fluent in Portuguese and integrated in Brazilian culture from childhood, Dick was a lifelong champion of both his…

December 8, 2025

Volunteers have been a critical part of IESC’s mission since 1964. The Frank Pace Award, named after one of IESC’s founders, is given each year to a volunteer expert, or team of experts, who performed the most outstanding assignment in the previous year. This year’s recipient is Amanda Rose Newton, who volunteered with IESC in Kenya making a lasting impact on the communities IESC serves.

During her volunteer assignment, Amanda Rose…

December 8, 2025

Established in 2013, the Tarek Nabhan International Achievement Award recognizes staff members in our overseas offices who regularly go above and beyond their normal job responsibilities to achieve excellence. The award is named after Tarek Nabhan in recognition of his 31 years of service to IESC.

For 2024, we honored our winner María José Morales, who serves as the Organizational Capacity Building Specialist for IESC’s activities in El…

September 23, 2025

USDA competitively awarded IESC a fiscal year 2025 Food for Progress (FFPr) project in Vietnam, as announced on the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service website: FY 2025 Food for Progress Awards Announcement | USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. Through this project, IESC will advance FFPr’s goals of strengthening agricultural sectors in developing countries, increasing agricultural productivity, and expanding markets and trade in agricultural…

September 4, 2025

The following serves as an advance notice regarding the forthcoming release of our 2024 annual report (accessible soon at Annual Reports – IESC), as well as an update on IESC given the profound changes of this year. Regarding 2024, it was a milestone year for IESC. Not only did we make significant progress alongside those we serve, but we also commemorated 60 years of impact since our founding in 1964.

IESC was…

Continuing Our Mission

February 27, 2025

Since 1964, IESC has empowered people and communities in 139 countries to improve their lives. Over the past decade alone, we have helped nearly 75,000 individuals secure new or better jobs and supported growing businesses in generating $1.1 billion in sales. Many of the countries we’ve worked with, such as Singapore, South Korea, Portugal, and the Czech Republic, have transformed from receiving foreign assistance to becoming self-reliant,…