After high school, she served in the Army as a linguist for two years, learning Korean. As a civilian, she later spent six months working in a Korean orphanage. Her interest in peace studies and conflict resolution grew during her years as an undergraduate at Columbia University in New York. She also served as a research assistant at the United Nations Population Fund headquarters in New York. During a stint in the Peace Corps, Rattay helped Niger women to learn to grow crops with the primary goal of feeding their families. A secondary benefit was finding help to market the crops in nearby villages.
Niger Anne Rattay is a program manager with its Social Impact Research initiative
Daughter of Stuart couple thanks Rotary for scholarship
By R.J. Harrington
Originally published 05:42 p.m., August 13, 2009
Updated 05:42 p.m., August 13, 2009
STUART - She's traveled the world with the Peace Corps, worked for the United Nations and was an interpreter with the U.S. Army.
Now she's a humanitarian working with Root Cause in Cambridge, Mass., as a program manager with its Social Impact Research initiative. Root Cause tries to advance solutions to social and economic problems by supporting nonprofits and educating donors.
Thursday morning, Anne Radday, daughter of Stuart residents Gil and Nancy Radday, thanked the Sunshine Rotary Club for nominating her for the $60,000 scholarship the national Rotary gave her in 2006 that enabled her to complete studies in conflict resolution at a Japanese university.
She received her master's degree from International Christian University in Tokyo earlier this year.
After being nominated for the scholarship in 2006, Radday entered regional and national competitions, and emerged victorious with 59 other students worldwide.
"This is a high honor," said Ellen Peitz of Family Private Care, Hobe Sound, who was president of the local Rotary the year Radday was awarded the scholarship.
Radday said she first got interested in Rotary International when she was an exchange student from New Milford, (Conn.) High School and spent a year as a guest with a German family.
Now, working as a humanitarian in Massachusetts, she told the Rotarians assembled for breakfast that when considering donating to a non-profit, "(think) of your donations as an investment on which you expect a return. . .a social return.
"Social impact investors are donors who are motivated to support organizations that make a significant social impact. And they expect to see results. Although they are interested in financial data, they look at much more when assessing an organization."
After high school, she served in the Army as a linguist for two years, learning Korean. As a civilian, she later spent six months working in a Korean orphanage.
Her interest in peace studies and conflict resolution grew during her years as an undergraduate at Columbia University in New York. She also served as a research assistant at the United Nations Population Fund headquarters in New York.
During a stint in the Peace Corps, Rattay helped Niger women to learn to grow crops with the primary goal of feeding their families. A secondary benefit was finding help to market the crops in nearby villages.
