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Half Day Trainings
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Building a Collaborative and Leaderful Organization Do you want to collaborate more effectively with your colleagues and partner organizations? Would you like to see everyone on your team stepping into leadership and bringing the full capacity of their intelligence and creativity to their work? In this interactive workshop, we will share successes and challenges from […]
Site Visits
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Grow Dat Youth Farm Grow Dat Youth Farm, a 7-acre urban farm located in the heart of City Park, is a youth leadership development organization which employs and nurtures 70+ high school age students each year. Through each and every of its 5 leadership development opportunities, young adults learn about and explore sustainable agriculture, community […]
Full Day Trainings
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Farm to Institution Boot Camp In this two-part workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of developing successful and high impact farm to institution initiatives from the ground up from leaders from the worlds of K-12, Health Care, and Higher Education. Part 1 of the workshop (Farm to Institution 101) provides a crash course in the […]
Winrock’s Core Values
January 9, 2020|post
Every day around the world, a Winrock employee builds a water pump, works with a farmer to harness smartphone technology or helps a trafficking survivor find a job. These actions flow from the principles Winrock stands for — its Core Values. To Winrock’s Aboubicar Coulibaly, the organization’s Core Values “mean that we stand for our […]
Patricia McCall
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Patricia McCall is Winrock International’s chief corporate affairs and global strategy officer. She leads Winrock’s efforts to develop impact investment programs, private sector engagement, Net Zero Climate Services as well as Winrock’s development outreach and relationships with philanthropic donors. McCall has more than 20 years of international experience in philanthropy advising, investment management, economic development, […]
McCall Joins Winrock as VP of Corporate Affairs and Global Strategy
January 9, 2020|post
WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 9, 2020 — Winrock welcomes Patricia McCall as Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Global Strategy. She will lead Winrock’s efforts to develop impact investment programs, oversee corporate partnerships, and evolve efforts to secure philanthropic partners for our programs. McCall has more than 20 years of international experience in philanthropy advising, […]
Helping Vietnam Track its PFES Impacts
December 20, 2019|post
Since 2012, the USAID Vietnam Forests and Deltas program (VFD) has been helping the Government of Vietnam develop and operationalize a national Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) program that has already directed over USD $500 million to forest owners as financial compensation for maintaining forest cover. For example, Vietnam’s hydroelectric power plants now reward […]
Embedded at COP25
December 19, 2019|post
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 25, held December 2-13 in Madrid, Winrock experts spoke at multiple events on many of the defining topics of COP25: carbon markets, community-led adaptation, and private sector engagement in adaptation. Michael Cote, Meghan Doherty, Mary Grady, Chris Hancock, John Kadyszewski, Jennifer Norfolk and Anmol Vanamali were all […]
Educating girls, changing lives
December 17, 2019|post
Every weekday morning, 26-year-old teacher Fily Camara drives nearly two hours from her home in Bandiagara along dusty roads to a rural village called Tongnon. Sometimes, she admits, she’s scared. Outside the cities of this hot, arid country just south of the Sahara Desert, armed militants are known to attack or kidnap motorists as an […]
Farmer Achieves Huge Profit
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His father and grandfather have long farmed shrimp and fish, so Palash Biswas (Chitalmari, Bagerhat) has known the business since his childhood. Now he is a lecturer in accounting at a government college but sees the potential to make a good profit in aquaculture if he can develop it as a successful sideline. When the […]