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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Afghanistan:
Afghanistan RPCV Daniel Koch gives global artisans an economic edge
17 February 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Afghanistan:
Brazil RPCV Dave Miller and Afghanistan RPCV Bob Hull's Firm win awards for socially responsible and humane public architecture
31 March 2003
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Armenia:
Peter Kwasniewski just launched Peter K Designs, an online business retailing designer belts and dog collars, which are hand-stitched by Armenian women from the village of Noembrayan, in the country's northeast corner. The unusual partnership was conceived after Peter and his wife Stephanie returned from a two-year stint in Armenia with the Peace Corps.
29 June 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Armenia:
After two years in Armenia with the Peace Corps, working with the villagers Village whose work ethic they had come to respect, Peter and Stephanie Peter Kwasniewski returned with a personal commitment to help set up some kind of business that would give the women of Neomberyan some real earning stability
29 June 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Armenia:
Dena Lewerke serves in Armenia as a business advisor
5 June 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Armenia:
PCV Dena Lewerke will be helping Armenians get their business started
5 June 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Armenia:
Armenia Staff Member Brian Tuck full professor with Oregon State University
28 May 2003
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Belize:
Belize RPCV Thomas Juring has joined the Small Business Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence
10 December 2006
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Pennsylvania
2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Bolivia:
Bolivia RPCV Harlan McSpadden (Mac) DeLozier appointed to Board of directors of Golden Eagle International, Inc.
28 September 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Bolivia:
Bolivia RPCV Harold "Hal" Gershman recently completed a two-year term as president of the Wine and Spirits Guild of America.
10 August 2005
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Bolivia:
Bolivia RPCV Danielle Matta worked within the small-business group, helping out in Guarani community stores
24 February 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Bolivia:
Bolivia RPCV Danielle Matta worked within the small-business group, helping out in Guarani community stores
24 February 2003
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Bolivia:
ICN Pharmaceuticals Appoints Bolivia RPCV Gelbard to Head International Efforts
26 March 2002
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Botswana:
Botswana RPCV Stephen Koepplinge named "MBA Student of the Year"
14 December 2005
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Brazil:
In his 25th reunion class book at Harvard, Brazil RPCV Bruce Fowler wrote that he had planned "three five-year phases" for his life after graduation in 1966: "The first was public service and finishing formal schooling; the second was to make a lot of money; third was to apply my newly generated riches to something in the public service."
22 September 2004
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Brazil:
Interview with Brazil RPCV Judy Pelham, FACHE, president and CEO, Trinity Health, Novi, Michigan
10 April 2002
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Bulgaria:
Peace Corps Volunteer James Mayers teaches business in Bulgaria
28 June 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Bulgaria:
Bulgaria RPCV Beth Hain helps small business owners reach their dreams
8 March 2005
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Cameroon:
Cameroon RPCV Marietta Bonaventure hosts Valentine's Night Out in Eugene Oregon
14 February 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Cameroon:
Cameroon RPCV Marietta Bonaventure runs Foolscap Books in Oregon
4 February 2003
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Cameroon:
US peace Corps to train small modium-scale businessmen in Cameroon
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Cameroon:
Peoplelink - A nonprofit marketplace benefiting grassroots artisans and their communities by a Cameroon RPCV
30 June 2001
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Handicrafts
2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Central African Republic:
After college Katie Dyer joined the Peace Corps and taught high school math in the Central African Republic for two years. She is co-owners of Cadeaux du Monde, a fair trade shop in downtown Newport that sells artwork and jewelry from all over the world, representing over 40 countries.
16 February 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Central African Republic:
Central African Republic RPCV Katie Dyer is co-owner of Cadeaux du Monde in Newport - Rhode Island's only alternative trade folk art gallery
16 February 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Central African Republic:
Central African Republic RPCV Katie Dyer is co-owner of Cadeaux du Monde, a fair trade shop that sells artwork and jewelry from all over the world
16 February 2005
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Rhode Island
2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Chile:
Chile RPCV CU grad Kermit Warner leaving Boulder, selling laundry after 12 years
11 August 2004
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Peace Corps: Business: China:
China RPCV Chris Pepe finds doing business with Artists Cooperatives in India has been an unpredictable roller-coaster ride with a sharp learning curve
1 September 2003
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
Colombia RPCV Phillip Singerman, Ph.D. as a new Venture Partner in Toucan Capital
18 January 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
Colombia RPCV Russell Kaney Establishes Multifamily Mortgage Finance Midwest Base
23 November 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
International business associates of Colombia RPCV Jimmey Iszler will spend the weekend with Iszler for his hometown's birthday party
30 June 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
Colombia RPCV Steven A. Ellers appointed President and Chief Operating Office of West Pharmaceutical Services
29 June 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
Colombia RPCV Myron A. "Mike" Wick III elected to Board of Directors of Citizens Communications
10 March 2005
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Colombia:
Colombia RPCV Paloma Grasso opens Galeria Quetzal in Cleveland
30 October 2002
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Congo Kinsasha:
Congo Kinsasha RPCV advertising executive Ted Riemann doesn't fit the typical mold
26 April 2004
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Costa Rica RPCV Bill Romenius is Director of International Business Compliance at Boeing
1 November 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Kenya RPCVs John and Karen Lewis had a typical suburban professional lifestyle. He was a trial lawyer, she a music teacher. On January 11, 1990, John quit his law practice and Karen set out to open an ecotourist business in Costa Rica
21 April 2005
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Several years ago, Sandra Feldman started Costa Rica Tours Ltd., which arranges travel packages to a country where she served in the Peace Corps in the 1960s
1 November 2004
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
TILAJARI RESORT - Owned by Jim Hamilton, a former Peace Corps volunteer who remained in Costa Rica
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Ralmar Ecoforestry Corporation - Ken Gallatin - in March 1987 the Peace Corps sent him to Costa Rica to serve as a Forestry Extensionist
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Folk Art and Nature Tour of Costa Rica - John Breuer fell in love with Costa Rica as a Peace Corps volunteer in the early l990s.
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
COSTA RICA TOURS, Ltd. - Sandra Feldman served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years in Venecia, Costa Rica.
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
As a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, Sandra effectively combined her knowledge and superb organizational skills with her great love for the country and its people
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Costa Rica:
Resort owner James Hamilton came to Costa Rica with the Peace Corps in 1968
30 June 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Cyprus:
Cyprus RPCV Bill Turner, New Mexico's natural resources trustee, has become an Internet water-rights broker
4 September 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Czech Republic:
Czech Republic RPCV Dan Jenkin finds volunteer experience was the perfect education and background for business ventures
31 August 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Czech Republic:
Czech Republic RPCV Dan Jenkin finds volunteer experience was the perfect education and background for business ventures
31 August 2001
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Czeck Republic:
RPCV Mick Hawk is Chief Executive of Bonton Entertainment Group in Czeck Republic
4 September 2003
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Peace Corps: Business: Dominican Republic:
Dominican Republic RPCVs Ed and Valerie Riefenstahl provides alternative to run-of-the-mill board leadership
3 April 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Dominican Republic:
Dominican Republic RPCV Michael L. Cauldwell appointed Senior Vice President at MTC Technologies
23 March 2005
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Dominican Republic:
Dominican Republic RPCV Kelly McDermott opens Blue Water Grill
13 October 2002
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Dominican Republic:
Krystal Williams, who heads to business school at Dartmouth College in the fall, said she recently canceled her cell phone because she didn't use it enough to justify the cost. Two years with the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republican taught her that she can live without any of the gadgets.
26 July 2001
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Ecuador RPCV Bob Leventry faces problems importing organic quinoa
29 December 2006
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Ecuador RPCV Bob and Midge Leventry import organic quinoa
31 March 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Ecuador RPCV Steve Foss and his wife Daisy run Shoestring Exchange, the couple's home-based business
11 August 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Ecuador RPCV Liza M. Roeser runs Fifty Flowers
8 May 2005
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Ecuador RPCV James T. Brache has joined the Zurich business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as an underwriter
8 July 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
Bob and Midge Leventry left Peoria for Ecuador in the Peace Corps in 1993, and today they are the largest importer of organic quinoa in Great Britain and among the top importers in the United States
21 April 2004
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Ecuador:
RPCVs Bob and Marjorie Leventry sow Seeds of Hope in Ecuador
29 November 2002
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Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Barry Rozner writes: It’s Mike McCaskey’s team and there’s nothing you can do about that
23 February 2007
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2007:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Mike Ditka disses Mike McCaskey, the Bears' chairman of the board
19 January 2007
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Ethiopia RPCV Scott Hand's Canadian nickel giant Inco will pass into the history books
15 August 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Ethiopia RPCV Scott Hand is chairman and chief executive officer of Inco Ltd.
11 October 2005
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Ethiopia RPCV Dianne Shapiro is CEO, company founder, and designer of Humane Trophies
1 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Award winning designer Dianne Shapiro grew up on a working farm in Tennessee that had a large variety of animals. After receiving a degree in Zoology from the University of Tennessee, she spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia
1 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
The Bee Barn features the one-of-a-kind furniture, lamps, jewelry, handbags and artwork produced by designer Dianne Shapiro (RPCV Ethiopia)
1 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Artist Information for Ethiopia RPCV Dianne Shapiro
1 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Save the Children's Rick Stoner, 58, who worked 22 years as an executive for Cummins Engine Co., is former Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia
4 July 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Ethiopia RPCV Scott Hand is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Inco Limited
17 May 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Scott Hand says Peace Corps taught me many things but the most valuable lesson was to respect different people and the different ways people think and live
13 November 2003
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Craig Johnson spent two years after college teaching in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and continues to make a difference through the community conscious organization he created at Venture Law Group.
18 July 2001
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Ethiopia:
Chicago Bears Chairman Michael McCaskey, who taught school in Ethiopia for the Peace Corps in the 1960s, has joined other prominent former Peace Corps volunteers promoting a peaceful solution.
18 July 2001
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Illinois
2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Fiji:
Fiji RPCV Robert J. Hix Joins Xcel Energy
19 February 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Fiji:
Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard is credited with the revolutionary combination of traditional weaving techniques with contemporary designs
6 January 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Fiji:
Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
21 March 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Fiji:
Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard has designs on global activism
21 March 2003
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Fiji:
Teaching in the Fiji Islands was a life-altering altering experience, says Jeff Shames. It influenced his management philosophy and helped shape the corporate values he lives by today.
15 July 2001
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Gabon:
Bob Utne served in the Peace Corps in Gabon
27 June 2003
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Guatemala:
Guatemala RPCV Christina Cowherd opens Infusion Tea in Orlando Florida
18 August 2005
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Florida
2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Guatemala:
Guatemala RPCV Dan Chang is co-owner of Rush River Brewing Company
12 June 2005
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Minnesota
2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Guatemala:
Guatemala RPCV Lena Medoyeff is "a businessperson who happens to make clothes"
20 April 2005
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Oregon
2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Guatemala:
Guatemala RPCV Ames Morison creates sustainable vineyard
27 August 2004
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2000:
Peace Corps: Business: Guatemala:
Guatemala RPCV Lena Medoyeff is rising star in Clothing
10 May 2000
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Guyana:
Peace Corps Volunteer Hope Wall helped launch a small woodworking business and a community library were launched at Wakapoa in the lower Pomeroon
7 February 2005
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Guyana:
Wakapoa Ada Mekeabo is a small business development project in Guyana that grew from local craftsmen's' interest and a determination on the part of a Peace Corps Volunteer to develop a truly sustainable small business
25 December 2003
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Haiti:
Rob Miller is a Peace Corps adviser and instructor to Haitians trying to start businesses
29 January 2004
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Directory of Haiti RPCVs
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2007:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Peace Corps Volunteer Sidney Slover helped start a donut production and distribution company to raise money for youth projects in Honduras
15 February 2007
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Food
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Honduras RPCV Allen Andersson knew Amylin's drug would help his Rachel
25 March 2005
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Allen Andersson, who served in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the 1960's, has been plowing some of his new fortune into his Riecken Foundation, a charity he named for his wife's parents. It has built more than 20 libraries in remote villages in Honduras and Guatemala.
19 March 2005
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Service
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Honduras RPCV Mike Bell gets jobs for Mexicans
3 May 2004
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Hispanic Issues
2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Honduras RPCV Mark Howell learned everything he knows about the coffee industry while in the Peace Corps
12 July 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
Jim MacGillis practiced business law with Hinshaw & Culbertson before leaving as a third-year associate. He is currently serving in Honduras as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
21 June 2003
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Peace Corps: Business: Honduras:
1996: Scot Brown served in Honduras in Marale FM beginning in 1996
31 December 1996
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Hungary:
Hungary RPCV Stephen Culp, founded Smart Furniture
1 October 2006
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
How Ron Tschetter was selected as Peace Corps Director
29 July 2006
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
Celeste joins Stonebridge International, a leading international business advisory firm
21 March 2006
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
After he graduated from law school, David Swope worked in the Peace Corps in Bombay, India, where he helped set up a legal aid society. When he returned to the United States, Swope then worked for several years as a corporate lawyer in New York City before he took over his father's business affairs.
21 March 2005
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
India RPCV Blake Willeford, now 61 and a retired carpenter, was just back from the Peace Corps when he bought The Clyde from the original owners, Norman and Hazel Clyde. At first his hippie friends worked concessions in exchange for free tickets. Now only the ticket sellers are volunteers, some for as long as 25 years.
9 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
Blake Willeford bought the Clyde Theatre in February of 1972. Blake was newly out of three years in the Punjab of India with the Peace Corps, and really knew nothing about running a movie theater.
9 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
Blake Willeford purchased the Clyde Theatre 1972 when he returned from a stint in the Peace Corps. Blake and his wife Lynn (who started as a ticketseller) have owned and operated the theater ever since.
9 December 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
India RPCV Frank O. Heintz, president of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., will retire Oct. 1, BGE's parent company Constellation Energy Group said yesterday
2 September 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
India RPCV Frank O. Heintz plans to retire as president of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
1 September 2004
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Maryland
2001:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
RPCV Jim Verdonik says when I was a Peace Corps volunteer, our effort was based on the thought that "It's better to teach a person how to farm than to give a person a free meal."
24 August 2001
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2000:
Peace Corps: Business: India:
At 21, Darshan Dhaliwal met a Peace Corps volunteer who spoke of American customs that seemed unbelievably refreshing: moving out of the house at 18, dating who you like, going out to parties. Dhaliwal was hooked. He soon applied for admission to the United States, packed a suitcase and left with "a few bucks" in his pocket.
1 April 2000
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Indonesia:
[Access0] Malaysia RPCV Tom Garsombke has consulted for Asian Development Bank in Indonesia, does research on The Socratic Method and its application in modern business usage
21 June 2003
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Business Education
2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Iran:
Donna E. Shalala. elected to serve three-year term ending at Gannett's annual meeting in 2008
14 April 2005
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Florida
2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Ivory Coast:
Robert Haas, former CEO and current board chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. to retire
24 July 2005
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Ivory Coast:
Business Development Strategy:Promoting Linkages for Sustainable Development
4 July 2001
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Kazakhstan:
Kazakhstan RPCV Emily Dewhirst opens Nomad Gallery
29 August 2004
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Kazakhstan:
Kazakhstan RPCV Emily Dewhirst says that the people of that region remain among her favorite in the world, and she plans a return visit soon
1 March 2002
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Trish Wheaton has transformed Wunderman Canada into a CRM and direct marketing powerhouse
6 March 2006
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2006:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
When it comes to crafting fine furniture, Kenya RPCV David Moser, of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers in Auburn, Maine, says "God is in the details" - but the devil is, too
16 February 2006
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
At 40, Renice Jones quit a good-paying computer job to join the Peace Corps and go to Kenya. Now she and her husband, Kevin Ward, sell African crafts and deal fairly and ethically with the craftspeople
6 May 2004
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Working with Kenyan farmers is rewarding for Peace Corps Volunteer Danny Canarick
25 February 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Renice Jones runs Global Crafts gift store
28 November 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Renice Jones expands Global Crafts gift store
27 November 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCVs Tom and Kim Leo return to open Ice Cream Parlor
15 July 2003
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Renice Jones' Global Crafts sponsors African Drums in Daytona
22 May 2003
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Dan Steininger of Catholic Knights expresses ethical concerns to SEC
8 November 2002
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2002:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
Kenya RPCV Steve Sachs sells vintage clothing on enokiworld.com
31 August 2002
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2001:
Peace Corps: Business: Kenya:
David London traveled to Kenya to learn Swahili, Kenyan cultural norms, and rudimentary Kenyan business practices before serving in the Peace Corps' business advising program in that nation
9 July 2001
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2005:
Peace Corps: Business: Korea:
Tom Coyner first came to Korea decades ago as a Peace Corps volunteer, married a Korean woman, heads multiple community organizations and publishes a newsletter called the Korea Economic Reader.
1 April 2005
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RPCV John Coyne (Ethiopia)
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2004:
Peace Corps: Business: Korea:
Korea RPSV Marjorie Bloem enjoys being her own boss
8 March 2004
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2003:
Peace Corps: Business: Korea:
Nick was a Peace Corps volunteer who taught English in a small middle school in southwest Korea