Peace Corps Online: September 24, 2003 - Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Morocco RPCV Barbara Ferris to speak at Hobart and William Smith College's President's Forum

September 24, 2003 - Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Morocco RPCV Barbara Ferris to speak at Hobart and William Smith College's President's Forum

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Morocco RPCV Barbara Ferris to speak at Hobart and William Smith College's President's Forum

Read and comment on this Press Release from Hobart and William Smith Colleges that Morocco RPCV Barbara Ferris, Founder and president of the International Women’s Democracy Center, will speak at the President' Forum on October 3. Ferris established the IDWC to ensure that women worldwide have the necessary tools and skills to participate in politics, policy and decision making within their democracies. She is also a co-founder with John Coyne of the Peace Corps Fund. Read the story at:

Barbara Ferris*

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Barbara Ferris

Founder and president of the International Women’s Democracy Center (IWDC)

“Altering the Leadership Landscape”

Ferris established the IDWC to ensure that women worldwide have the necessary tools and skills to participate in politics, policy and decision making within their democracies.

Prior to establishing IWDC, she served as the Women in Development Director for Peace Corps for five years—where she designed and managed economic development programs in more than 90 countries. Her major accomplishment was to institutionalize program designs in all sectors of the economy with a gender perspective to ensure that women had access to the resources that Peace Corps volunteers bring to a country.

Formerly a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, Ferris has served as the adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and consulted in management, training, program design and evaluation in more than 100 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, where she designed financial management models for the public sector. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Ohio State University and a master’s degree in public administration from the American University.

“I’m sure that Barbara Ferris’s vast experience and knowledge about gender perspective around the world will offer campus and community members a fascinating picture of how governments, organizations and communities can ensure that women are equal partners in the economic, social and political development of their own countries,” said President Gearan. “It was my pleasure to work with Ms. Ferris during my tenure as director of the Peace Corps. I know first-hand how valuable the work she is doing is to the women of the world.”

President’s Forum guests generally take the opportunity to visit classes or gather with students and faculty members to discuss issues, and Ferris is scheduled to visit classes on Friday, October 3. She will also attend the Women’s Hall of Fame inductions in nearby Seneca Falls, on Oct. 4.

May 29, 2002 - Returned Volunteers form the Peace Corps Fund

Read and comment on this Press Release on May 29, 2002 from the Peace Corps Fund announcing the formation of a non-profit, tax exempt organization, that will support community service work throughout the United States by former Peace Corps Volunteers. Co-founders John Coyne and Barbara Ferris are known for their long involvement with the Returned Volunteer community and were leaders of the Committee for the Future of the Peace Corps.

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BUSH CALL FOR EXPANDED PEACE CORPS PROMPTS CREATION OF PEACE CORPS FUND BY FORMER VOLUNTEERS*

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BUSH CALL FOR EXPANDED PEACE CORPS PROMPTS CREATION OF PEACE CORPS FUND BY FORMER VOLUNTEERS

FUND LAUNCH MARKS JFK BIRTHDAY

Washington, D.C.--Honoring President John F. Kennedy's birthday today, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) announced the establishment of The Peace Corps Fund. The Fund was created in response to President Bush's State of the Union Address in which he called to expand the Peace Corps and energize community service efforts In America.

Volunteers who serve overseas in the Peace Corps, a federal agency established in 1961, make a commitment to fulfill three goals: 1) to help improve conditions under which people live; 2) enhance understanding of Americans by people In other countries; and 3) improve Americans' understanding and appreciation of other people and cultures.

RPCVs have long viewed the Third Goal as a call for community service across the United States. With the creation of the Peace Corps Fund, RPCVs will now have the opportunity to secure grants to support a variety of community service programs, projects and activates that give them the opportunity to share what they have learned from having lived in developing countries and emerging democracies.

Programs and projects might include: cross-cultural folktales, textbooks, and essays written by RPCVs for students K-12; creation of Peace Corps Clubs for after school programs that would provide students a global view about peoples and cultures of the world; civic and language classes for new immigrants; curriculum based courses in high schools and colleges that contribute directly to a better understanding of our role as global citizens working for peace, as well as, books, films, and lecture series available for communities across the United States.

"September 11 reminded all RPCVs of their commitment to fulfill the Third Goal, "said John Coyne, a co-founder of the Fund and an RPCV who served in Ethiopia in the early 1960s."With the help of the Fund, Returned Volunteers will now be able to use their training and experience abroad to provide a domestic dividend to the United States at a time of crisis."

The Peace Corps Fund will support former Peace Corps Volunteers and former Staff as they develop local projects and programs to educate Americans--from school students to senior citizens--about the common bonds that they believe Americans share with people around the world.

According to Barbara Ferris, a co-founder of the Fund and an RPCV who served in the 1980s in Morocco, "the Fund has the support of members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Peace Corps community, and numerous Members of Congress. More importantly, we also have the enthusiastic encouragement of several former Peace Corps Directors, as well as early architects of the Peace Corps, and many professionals in the international development community."

Congressional hearings are planned to create legislation to support Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff as they develop projects, programs and activities to fulfill the Third Goal of the Peace Corps.

The Peace Corps Fund, a non-profit, tax exempt organization, is seeking support from corporations, foundations and individuals. The Fund will publish guidelines for grant requests this summer.

The Peace Corps Fund.
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Dear Friends,

Yesterday's (May 30th) WSJ carried an Opinion piece by Al Hunt entitled, "Waiting for the Call" that speaks directly to what we hope to achieve with the Peace Corps Fund. Hunt talks about a recent Hart/Teeter poll showing that young people do want to be asked to service. (He cited the famous quote about why a PCV joined the Peace Corps in the first place, "It was the first time anyone asked me to do something for someone else.")

In his article Hunt talks about the McCain-Bayh bill on the Hill as well as the companion bill sponsored by Ford of Tennessee and Osborne of Nebraska. He also mentions the 1,500 students who turned out at the University of Michigan (birthplace of the Peace Corps) to hear McCain and Bayh talk about community and public service.

Hunt ends by writing, "Since Sept 11 there has been much focus on what the country can do for us: tax cuts for the rich, farm subsidies, a blank check for the energy companies. It's time for the President to start asking instead what everyone, especially young Americans, can do for their communities and their country."

The Peace Corps Fund is ready. RPCVs have been involved in communities across the country and around the world for years and we want to do more. A few resources would help RPCVs have an enormous impact as we continue to share the world.

Announced on JFK's birthday, this week, The Peace Corps Fund will:

Provide grants RPCVs to do Third Goal activities within their communities. The Fund will support individual RPCVs, RPCV groups, and former Peace Corps Staff who seek funding to make a difference through a grant application process. Great projects created by a diverse group of people working to strengthen cross-cultural understanding will come--from all of you. Of that we are very confident. It will be your creative ideas that will drive the Peace Corps Fund. The Fund will support your ideas with grants.

The Peace Corps Fund is not a membership organization. It does not plan to collect membership dues or publish magazines or newsletters or be involved with the Peace Corps agency. We already have an organization engaged in this work in Washington in the NPCA. The Peace Corps Fund is a non-profit organization incorporated in the District of Columbia.

At the NPCA Conference, more information will be available on how the Peace Corps Fund will actually work. We are looking forward to having you join us in this challenge. We seek your ideas and suggestions.

Meanwhile, spread the word, and using the form below, please send a donation today to build the Peace Corps Fund.

We look forward to your support.

John Coyne & Barbara Ferris

Peace Corps Fund

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