Collaborations

Associated Organizations

Our local UNA Chapter collaborates with other organizations in the Philadelphia Region and also participates in the current Global Philadelphia City Project, which aims to bring together all local organizations that have an international aspect in their mission.

Below is a list of organizations (continuously updated and never complete) we work with:

African Studies Center

Center Mission
The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania brings together researchers and students, along with cultural, business and media entities, to gain knowledge of contemporary and historical Africa.

The Center coordinates a wide range of course offerings and events in a variety of disciplines ranging from history, language and culture to health, science and business. The geographic expertise of Penn Africanist faculty and staff spans the continent and extends to the African diaspora. They share a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of African people, their institutions, and the wider world where they now reside. Distinguished visiting scholars from the United States and Africa regularly contribute to the Center? diversity of expertise, while benefiting from the resources available at Penn and in the region.

In recognition of the quality and richness of African Studies resources at Penn, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore colleges, this four-school consortium has repeatedly received Title VI National Resource Center grants from the United States Department of Education since 1993.

http://www.africa.upenn.edu

American Friends Service Committee

About AFSC

Who we are:

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Our work is based on the principles of the Religious Society of Friends, the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

History:

AFSC was founded in 1917 during World War I. In accordance with their Quaker faith, the new organization gave young conscientious objectors ways to serve without enlisting in the military or taking lives. They drove ambulances, ministered to the wounded, and stayed on in Europe after the armistice to rebuild war-ravaged communities.

In 1947, AFSC was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on behalf of all Quakers for our work “…from the nameless to the nameless….”

http://www.afsc.org

CARE regional office

About CARE

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

Our Vision

We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE International will be a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We will be known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people.

Our Mission

Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by:

Strengthening capacity for self-help
Providing economic opportunity
Delivering relief in emergencies
Influencing policy decisions at all levels
Addressing discrimination in all its forms

Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

http://www.care.org

Citizens for Global Solutions

Our Vision:

Citizens for Global Solutions envisions a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone. This vision requires effective democratic global institutions that will apply the rule of law while respecting the diversity and autonomy of national and local communities.

Our Mission:

We are a membership organization working to build political will in the United States to achieve our vision. We do this by educating Americans about our global interdependence, communicating global concerns to public officials, and developing proposals to create, reform, and strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations.

Like a number of educational and advocacy groups in the U.S., Citizens for Global Solutions is composed of two distinct, yet related, non-profit corporate entities: Citizens for Global Solutions, Inc. and Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund. Donations to Citizens for Global Solutions, Inc. are not tax deductible because they are used for political advocacy. Supporters can make tax-deductible donations to the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund.

http://www.globalsolutions.org

The Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia

About Us

What is the Ethical Society of Philadelphia?

A Fellowship

The Society is a fellowship of individuals and families; an Ethical Humanist religious community. We celebrate and support each other. We enjoy working together. The personal growth of each member is our primary concern.

A Practical Philosophy

Instead of attempting to escape today's problems through the empty promises of material success and other-worldly religions, we look for meaning through creative actions. We can enrich our own lives by improving relationships within our families, among our friends, at the workplace and in the community. Our programs reflect a belief in the individual's capacity to make a difference. A Place to Learn

Our classes, forums and platforms help us understand this confusing, sometimes uncaring world. We turn to reason and feelings instead of dogma.

http://www.phillyethics.net

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

The Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center tells the story of the Schuylkill River and its human connections throughout history.

It is a valuable tale with timeless lessons about the need to balance the demands of development with those natural resources that make development possible.

With the river flowing along its buildings and the city skyline rising behind it, the Water Works bridges the natural and urban environments, as it has from the first.

For more than a century the Water Works supplied early Philadelphia with water pumped from the Schuylkill River. Safe water transformed all it touched, improving everything from fire protection to workers' health to manufacturing processes.

Through its detailed and faithful picture of watershed use, the Interpretive Center shows that our needs have scarcely changed in 200 years.

The Philadelphia Water Department provides the resources and guides at the Center. In fact, the Department sees the Interpretive Center as a means to achieving new levels of water quality.

To reach that end, the Interpretive Center has the mission, goals and commitment of being a place where visitors ultimately define the kind of environment they will leave to future generations.

Our Mission

Educate citizens to understand their community and environment, especially the urban watershed, know how to guide the community and environment in the future, and understand the connections between daily life and the natural environment.

http://www.fairmountwaterworks.org

Global Education Motivators

GEM was founded in 1981 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to help schools meet the complex challenges of living in a global society.

Emphasizing human rights and human responsibility, GEM is now educating a second generation to global awareness and responsibility in an interdependent world.

GEM is a non-governmental-organization (NGO) in association with the United Nations Department of Public Information.

GEM is headquartered at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA (USA).

http://www.gem-ngo.org

International Visitors Council

Who is IVC?

Since 1954 we have been the official host for the U.S. Department of State’s highest exchange, the International Visitor Leadership Program. We are part of a unique “citizen diplomacy” network of 92 Councils in 48 states that receive established and emerging leaders from 120+ countries visiting the U.S. as guests of our government. Each participant visits up to five U.S. cities to meet their professional counterparts and experience American life through dinner with families in private homes and attending a variety of cultural events. The program allows visitors to see the country first-hand to form their own opinions of the U.S., its policies and people. Past visitors include F.W. de Klerk, Hamid Karzai, Willie Brandt, Nicolas Sarkozy and 248 others who later became heads of Government. Unlike other government-sponsors exchanges, this program is by invitation only. The network of 92 Councils and 80,000 citizen diplomats, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.

http://www.ivc.org

Opportunities Industrialization Centers International

OIC International (OICI) is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States. Since 1970, OICI has been improving the quality of life of low-income, disadvantaged individuals through the provision of skills training, business development, health and food security programs in the developing world. OICI's programs are comprehensive in nature, and aim to give individuals the knowledge and tools they need to build sustainable futures for themselves, their families and their communities.

OICI has a team of over 300 skilled management, technical and field staff with expertise in Agriculture, Food Security, Water and Sanitation, Vocational Training & Job Creation, Microenterprise Development, Microfinance, Health and Nutrition and HIV/AIDS. To ensure maximum impact and results, OICI allocates the majority of its resources to overseas programs, thus the majority of our staff live and work in communities where they are directly implementing OICI programs.

The main tenets of our organizational philosophy are:

Self-help: We believe in empowering individuals, institutions and communities through the transfer of knowledge and skills.
Capacity building: OICI's programs equip their beneficiaries with the life, job and business skills that enable them to become productive members of their communities.
Social enterprise: All of OICI's programs are designed with the goal of sustainability and are market driven to ensure that they both meet community needs and are based on fiscal responsibility.
Partnership: OICI believes that development is a communal effort and that only through effective cooperation will the needs of the developing world be met. In this spirit, OICI has a proud history of welcoming international and national partners in all its work.

http://www.oicinternational.org

Oxfam Philadelphia

We are a nonpartisan group of volunteers in more than a dozen US cities campaigning with Oxfam America in the fight against poverty, hunger and social injustice. Our current campaign brings awareness to climate change and its impact on poor communities, while also promoting equitable solutions to the crisis.

http://oxfamactioncorps-philadelphia.blogspot.com

Penn for Unicef

About UNICEF

Originally created by a UN General Assembly resolution to provide emergency food and healthcare to children whose countries were devastated by World War II, today the agency has sustained as a strong worldwide organization devoted to providing long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

Penn for UNICEF strives to align itself with UNICEF's mission and goals by raising funds and spreading awareness and education about issues that affect children's welfare locally and globally.

http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/unicef/contact.html

Philadelphia Darfur Alert Coalition

Organization

Darfur Alert is a Philadelphia-area coalition of American and Sudanese-born activists. Our leadership draws heavily from the Darfurian immigrant community to provide their insight and help guide our work. Thoroughly interfaith and interracial, our ranks include educators, businessmen, artists, students, peace activists, and other concerned citizens. Together, through public education and determined advocacy, we are raising awareness about the crisis, helping to support the oppressed, and working together to advance a just and lasting peace in Darfur.

The Darfur Alert Coalition is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and is registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations.

Vision

Survivors are counting on us to mount an effective response to the atrocities that are threatening the lives of over 3 million people in the Darfur region of Sudan. The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur has awakened fears in the international community of another African genocide along the lines of the recent tragedy in Rwanda.

In response to the dire situation in Dafur many concerned individuals and organizations ---both secular and interfaith --- in the Philadelphia metro and Delaware Valley region have gathered under the organizational umbrella of the Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC). For the past three years DAC has played a leading role both locally and nationally in drawing America's attention to the plight of the Darfurian people.

A unique part of DAC’s organizational outlook is that our coalition counts on local Philadelphia area Sudanese and Darfurian immigrants to provide leadership in setting our priorities. DAC’s Darfurian and Sudanese members offer information and insights about the crises within a historical context, as well as strategic and situational assessments of unfolding events that otherwise would not make sense.

Mission

The mission of DAC is to sponsor events and engage in organized activities aimed at educating the general public, advocating U.S. foreign policy positions that seek a just and peaceful end to the Darfurian crisis, and calling for increased economic and social development in western Sudan under the leadership of legitimate representatives of the Darfurian people.

DAC’s mission is also to help build networks linking concerned Americans with Darfurian refugees displaced by the crisis in their homeland. DAC seeks to assist these persons and their families by channeling resources to them as they reclaim and restore their land, lives and livelihoods.

http://www.darfuralert.org

Philadelphia Global Water Initiative

Mission and Vision

The Philadelphia Global Water Initiative (PGWI) is a group of interested organizations and individuals committed to helping to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals for water/sanitation throughout the world. It includes among its members the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Water Department, Water for People, Aqua America, Pennoni Associates, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Uhl, Baron, Rana and Associates, the United Nations Association – Greater Philadelphia Chapter, Meta Quality of Life Improvement Foundation, Traveling Mercies, Keiyo Soy Ministries, the Delaware River Basin Commission, and Rotary District 7450. PGWI is always interested in welcoming more members.

The members of the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative envision a world where all people have access to safe water and sanitation; a world where suffering from water-related and sanitation-related diseases are eliminated. By utilizing the resources and expertise of the Philadelphia Region, we work to increase global access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services.

http://www.pgwi.org

Physicians for Social Responsability, local chapter

Our Mission

PSR, a public health non-profit, mobilizes individuals, health professionals and community organizations to promote local and global non-violence, a healthy environment and access to healthcare for all.

"PSR invites others who are committed to interrupting the cycle of violence through community action to join our work"

http://www.psrphila.org

Project Nuclear Awareness

Our Mission

No New Nuclear Weapons. We oppose new nuclear weapons development, testing, and production. New weapons send the wrong signal to those nations who have agreed to stop testing or developing them. We oppose plans for new U.S. nuclear weapons, as well as those of any other nation.

No Space Weapons. A single strike against an opposing satellite can have devastating effects on our own telecommunications, weather, and even spy satellites. Space-strike weapons violate our own security, and could set off an arms race with China, Russia, possibly Japan and others as well.

Enforce the Treaties. Uphold the Non-Proliferation Treaty and other treaties that have served to prevent proliferation, and strong measures to enforce such treaties. Ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT); if no one can test new weapons then their development is much less likely, adding to global stability.

Collaboration, not Confrontation. A collaborative foreign policy helps to prevent wars, and can ultimately end all nuclear weapons. To do so we need to re-energize diplomatic, multilateral aspects of US policy, and realign our strategic resources away from an emphasis on the military as a first solution to complex problems.

. De-Alert Missiles. This includes de-alerting the 2,500 missiles that the US and the Russians each have pointed at each other. This one measure would build confidence, instead of conflict, and make us safer. We can update a new US-Russia START Treaty, and reduce nuclear weapons to 1000 each. The old START Treaty has expired, and must be replaced promptly.

. Enforce Human Rights for All. This includes the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War and on the Treatment of Non-Combatants.

. Achieving the Mission. To achieve these goals, we visit Congress regularly; we organize conferences and exhibitions, such as our International Youth Dialogues, and our Capitol Hill Seminar on Middle East Solutions; and we visit the US State Department and other UN delegations with our message of change and renewal. We’re also on Social Networking sites, and our youth blog for Ban All Nukes USA is www.bang-usa.org. You can also now tune in on Disarm-TV, which as the name implies, shows all kinds of videos on getting to zero nukes.

http://www.projectfornuclearawareness.org

Rebecca Davis Dance Company

Entrepreneur and choreographer, Rebecca Davis has constantly sought opportunities to deepen her academic knowledge to broaden the artistic scope of her organization, The Rebecca Davis Dance Company, located in Philadelphia. She founded the not-for-profit organization three years ago with the mission of using contemporary ballet to deepen the public's knowledge of famous literary works, significant historical events and modern social issues. In addition to the professional troupe, the Company's unique pre-professional dance-theater training program fills the market gap between training and professional employment for young dancers in the Philadelphia community.

Originally from Vancouver, Rebecca has choreographed and taught in Canada, Russia, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and the United States. She was classically trained in the Russian Vaganova method of ballet while studying in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk, Russia. She received a degree in choreography from The Saint Petersburg Conservatory under the tutelage of Nikolai Boyarchikov (former Artistic Director, The Mussorgsky Ballet). She is a Fulbright scholar and summa cum laude graduate of Temple University with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship. She is currently pursuing a Masters of International Relations with a concentration in Peacekeeping through the American Public University System. In summer 2009, she spent two months in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, developing a creative movement program for youth of diverse ethnic backgrounds focusing on the theme of reconciliation in a post-conflict country.

Prior to starting her own organization, Rebecca acquired substantial arts management experience serving as a marketing intern at Stage Holding Russia (Moscow), International Ballet Theatre (New York) and The Lincoln Center of The Performing Arts. Her award-winning business plan for The Rebecca Davis Dance Company was recognized as the most viable small business by The 2004 Annual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. She is the recipient of the Garfield Weston Scholarship, Canadian Merit Scholarship and is a two-time winner of the League for Entrepreneurial Women's Essay Competition. She was recognized by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown as one of the Next Generation of Women Leaders and is a 2009 participant in the Forum for Executive Women Mentor Program.

Rebecca has choreographed five full-length ballets: Antigone (Kimmel Center, 2006), Helen Keller (Prince Music Theatre, 2007), Darfur (Arden Theater, 2008), Greed: The Tale of Enron (Prince Music Theatre, 2009) and Van Gogh (Prince Music Theatre, 2009).

http://www.rebeccadavisdance.com

Vets for peace

Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985. It is structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members. There is an annual convention each year attended by our members, families and supporters from across the nation. Members receive periodic VFP publications.

The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.

Veterans For Peace is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the UN. http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Women in War Zones

Women In War Zones International (WWZI) is a charity dedicated to telling personal stories of women in areas of conflict in order to promote women’s human rights and health, prevent war crimes and achieve victory over abuse of women living in war zones.

http://www.womeninwarzones.org

Women's Campaign International

Working in emerging democracies and post-conflict regions around the world, Women’s Campaign International advances opportunities for women to actively participate in public advocacy and political processes. In providing the requisite skills, knowledge and culturally-sensitive support, we develop leaders who transform the lives of everyone they serve.

Women’s Campaign International was founded in 1998 by Pennsylvania Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies. After serving in Congress, Ms. Margolies led the United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. At the conference, 189 countries signed a Platform for Action that pledged to further the rights of women around the world. Inspired by these commitments and the astounding attendance of thousands of women participants from around the world, Ms. Margolies founded WCI to help women achieve the goals laid out in the Platform for Action. WCI’s programs help women find their voices by giving them tangible skills in areas such as leadership, public speaking, media relations, grassroots organizing, campaign strategies, voter outreach and mobilization, polling, policy analysis and fundraising. WCI has worked with political leaders, activists, advocacy groups and non-profit partner organizations to ensure that women have a legitimate opportunity to participate in the development of public policy, and that women’s issues are placed on local, national and regional agendas. With the help of local civil society organizations (CSOs), WCI is able to tailor its programs to fit the needs, culture and abilities of women in each country.

http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.

WILPF works to create an environment of political, economic, social and psychological freedom for all members of the human community, so that true peace can be enjoyed by all.

On April 28, 1915, a unique group of women met in an International Congress in The Hague, Netherlands to protest against World War I, then raging in Europe, to suggest ways to end it and to prevent war in the future. The organizers of the Congress were prominent women in the International Suffrage Alliance, who saw the connection between their struggle for equal rights and the struggle for peace. WILPF's foremothers rejected the theory that war was inevitable and defied all obstacles to their plan to meet together in wartime. They assembled more than 1,000 women from warring and neutral nations to work out a plan to end WWI and lay the basis for a permanent peace. Out of this meeting the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was born.

Jane AddamsWILPF's first International President was Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago and the first U.S. woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. For more information about Jane Addams, visit the official site of the Nobel Foundation.

It was the wisdom of our founding foremothers in 1915 that peace is not rooted only in treaties between great powers or a turning away of weapons alone, but can only flourish when it is also planted in the soil of justice, freedom, non-violence, opportunity and equality for all. They understood, and WILPF still organizes in the understanding, that all the problems that lead countries to domestic and international violence are all connected and all need to be solved in order to achieve sustainable peace.

http://www.wilpf.org

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Philadelphia

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international Non Governmental Organization (NGO) with national sections, covering all continents with an international secretariat based in Geneva, and a New York office focused on the work of the United Nations.

Since its establishment in 1915, WILPF has brought together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means, promoting political, economic and social justice for all.

http://www.philawilpf.org

World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia

The World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia (WTCGP) was founded on one clear mission: To provide a world-class portfolio of services that enhances international trade growth and leads the Greater Philadelphia region to economic prosperity.

As a single, powerful source of international business support and resources, we are committed to helping our members thrive in global commerce.

We’ll show you how to identify global opportunities, supply you with vital connections that open doors, and provide you with educational and business services that bring success in international trade. Whether you’re already trading globally, looking for new markets, or simply want to stay on top of international trade news and events, we have what you’re looking for.

In addition, as a licensed member of the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) we’re able to connect our members with access to innovative WTCA networking and trade services, as well as World Trade Centers around the globe.

http://www.wtcphila.org

The Young Professionals for International Cooperation

Young Professionals for International Cooperation (YPIC) is a program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) that seeks to engage young professionals in discussions of international affairs, with an emphasis on the importance of multilateral cooperation and the UN.

http://www.unausaypic.org

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