ACDI/VOCA
ACDI/VOCA promotes broad-based economic growth and more effective civil society. They offer a comprehensive range of technical assistance in the following areas: Enterprise Development, Financial Services Development, Agricultural Systems Development and Crisis Recovery. Driven by the goal of adding value to local enterprises, ACDI/VOCA helps build businesses, agricultural systems, financial systems and grassroots organizations. Through its members, ACDI/VOCA is connected to rural America and has access to a wide range of technical expertise.
Citizens Development Corps/MBA Enterprise Corps (CDC)
Citizens Development Corps (CDC) supports economic growth, stimulates economic opportunities and seeks to spread the benefits of prosperity by matching innovative and proven solutions to enterprises, business support organizations, government agencies, and NGOs. With programs that focus on practice areas such as jobs creation, trade, competitiveness, tourism and hospitality, business services information/communications technology, finance, and procurement and supply chain management, CDC draws on its database of advisors from business, academia, and government to deliver training, mentoring and technical and management assistance for practical and measurable results. Long-term support is often delivered through CDC’s MBA Enterprise Corps, which provides business professionals who have a minimum of 4-6 years of business experience and have recently graduated from one of America's leading business schools.
CNFA
CNFA is dedicated to stimulating economic growth around the world by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise, and market linkage. CNFA mobilizes American farmers and other economic experts to provide training to disadvantaged counterparts in other countries. CNFA specializes in engaging private companies of all sizes in win-win partnerships to expand economic activity and increase incomes.
Coffee Quality Institute -- Coffee Corps (CQI)
CQI works internationally to improve the quality of coffee and the lives of the people who produce it. CQI's Board of Trustees has over 400 years of experience in the coffee industry. CQI has strong relationships with most major coffee associations in both producing and consuming countries and we can facilitate strategic alliances consistent with our mission. CQI's over 200 volunteers come from all over the world to share their technical expertise with host clients.
Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC)
FSVC's core work concentrates on strengthening commercial banking systems, developing central bank capabilities, and building capital markets. Major additional areas of work include the legal framework for the financial system, payments system development, pension reform, and the combating of money laundering and financial corruption. FSVC structures practical, results-oriented technical assistance and training missions staffed by financial sector practitioners who serve as unpaid volunteers.
Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas, Inc. (FAVACA)
FAVACA has a successful history of providing technical assistance and skills training through expert volunteers. FAVACA responds quickly to requests from government officials and non-governmental organizations in the areas of agriculture, economic growth, environment, capacity building, disaster and emergency management, healthcare, education, and youth and women's leadership. In the past 22 years, FAVACA has conducted over 1,300 volunteer missions to 29 countries in the Caribbean and Central America, impacting over 35,000 individuals in an effort to improve economic and social conditions in the region.
IIE/Emerging Markets Development Advisor Program (EMDAP)
IIE fosters sustainable development through training programs, service/service learning, and volunteerism in the fields of business and economic growth, energy, environment, international development, gender, and leadership development. IIE can deliver long- and short-term support through its Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program (EMDAP), which recruits and supports students/graduates of MBA and MA international economics/international affairs programs to volunteer as EMDAP advisers with USAID partners around the world. Further, IIE's cadre of senior volunteers includes university faculty, NGO, and private sector economic/business professionals from the U.S. and around the world. IIE's systems and infrastructures are tailored to field and support expatriate professionals in all parts of the world with safety, security and professionalism.
International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
ICMA is the professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators, and assistants in cities, counties, and regional entities throughout the world. Since 1914, ICMA has provided technical and management assistance, training, and information resources to its members and the international local government community. ICMA is recognized for expertise in local government management; strengthening of public service delivery; community-based economic development and strategic planning; development of transparent, efficient management systems and policies; and enhancement of the role of citizens and civil society in the local governance process.
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IESC/FSD/Geekcorps (IESC)
IESC's mission is to promote stability and prosperity through private enterprise development. As part of their integrated development programs, IESC's more than 11,000 experts and professional staff, including those in its Geekcorps and Financial Services divisions, provide a broad portfolio of business support services to both private and public sector beneficiaries, including SMEs, business support organizations and government municipalities and ministries. Under the Volunteers for Prosperity program of the USA Freedom Corps, IESC is participating in five Presidential Initiatives, including the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief and the Trade for African development and Enterprise Initiative.
International Real Property Foundation (IRPF)
The IRPF began in 1992 to assist with the transition of real estate markets in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Since 2000, its mission is to create viable private real property markets worldwide. IRPF's competencies in real estate market development include brokerage, appraisal, real estate finance, and other elements to strengthen capital markets and develop entrepreneurial market makers' capabilities to succeed.
International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP)
The ISLP provides volunteer legal services by highly skilled and experienced attorneys to advance democracy and the rule of law, protect human rights and promote equitable economic development worldwide. Through the pro bono work of retired and active practitioners, working independently and with law firms, ISLP helps governments and citizens develop and implement legal reforms, assists programs that advance the social and economic well-being of people in developing countries, and builds the capacity of local organizations and professionals to meet the needs of their communities.
Land O'Lakes IDD (LOL)
LOL is a farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with more than 80 years of experience as a leading farm-to-market agribusiness. Since 1981, Land O'Lakes International Development Division has been sharing this expertise - - Land O'Lakes' in-depth knowledge of crop, livestock and dairy production, marketing, business management and cooperative principles - - to implement successful and sustainable projects, create profitable businesses and drive economic growth worldwide. Land O'Lakes is currently providing agricultural training and technical assistance to more than 30 developing nations.
Opportunities Industrialization Center International (OICI)
OICI's mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income, disadvantaged individuals through the provision of sustainable human resource development services. OICI has specialized in creating indigenous non-governmental organizations in developing and transitional countries - community-based organizations that provide training in vocational and technical skills, agricultural and rural development, post-conflict rehabilitation and reintegration, and entrepreneurship. Today OICI works in three specific areas: education and training, food security, and entrepreneurship and business development.
Partners of the Americas (Partners)
Partners of the Americas brings together citizen volunteers from Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States to build better understanding and improve the lives of people across the hemisphere. Partners' 40-year commitment to creating economic and social opportunity is reflected in ITS diverse network of 60 partnerships that link U.S. states with Latin American and Caribbean countries. Partners taps this network of citizen volunteers -- which includes farmers, business people, professors, extension agents, doctors, and community leaders -- to address shared concerns and develop sustainable solutions. We rely on this fabric of enduring relationships, as well as on our expert staff, to mount a wide array of activities and programs.
Winrock International (Winrock)
Winrock works with people around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock matches innovative approaches in agriculture,natural resources management, clean energy and leadership development with the unique needs of its partners. Over the last 10 years, Winrock has fielded 3,500 volunteers in agriculture, natural resources development, SME, micro-credit, energy, eco-tourism, and leadership to over 40 countries.
World Council of Credit Unions, Inc. (WOCCU)
WOCCU is the world's leading development organization and advocate for credit unions. Through the model credit union methodology, WOCCU promotes the development of sustainable, cooperative financial institutions that provide a broad range of services. Volunteers represent a key component in achieving this goal. WOCCU's Partnerships program pairs credit union associations in the United States with credit unions in developing countries and facilitates volunteer technical assistance by skilled credit union representatives. Areas of emphasis include microfinance, rural finance and savings mobilization. WOCCU also promotes credit union-based remittances through its international remittances network, IRnet. |
