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NEWSLETTER | Vol. 3, No. 1: 03/19/2007 |
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International Cooperation: The Path to Global Poverty Reduction
| Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation and Former Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations, will speak on UN efforts to promote international partnerships to combat poverty. She will be joined by three distinguished panelists and all will participate in a public discussion. This event is presented by UNA-MD, the LWV of Baltimore County, and Goucher College. The event will take place on Thursday, April 12, from 7:00-9:15pm in Merrick Hall of the Dorsey Center at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. |
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The panelists joining Ms. Sorensen will include Jessica Walker Beaumont, Trade Specialist with American Friends Service Committee; Cherri Waters, Chair of the Development Policy Unit, Interaction; and Nisha Thapliyal, Assistant Coordinator, IMF Project for Action Aid International USA. This event is sponsored by The United Nations Association of Maryland, The League of Women Voters of Baltimore County, and Goucher College. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.unamd.org/content/view/60/47/.
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Global Warming: Saving Maryland's Coastline
| What acute dangers do we face on the Eastern Shore, in Maryland, and in the world? What changes in our usual thinking may be necessary to deal with the challenges? What opportunities does today's political environment present? What can we citizens, Maryland and American, do? |
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The featured speaker is Dr. Kenneth Allen, chair of the Policy and Membership Committees of UNA-MD. This event will take place on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, from 7:00-9:00pm in the Delmarva Community Services Center in Cambridge, MD. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.unamd.org/content/view/62/47/.
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2007 UNA-USA Biennial Convention Report
| From UNA-MD President Bud Hankins' report: "A number of members of the Maryland Chapter of the United Nations Association were able to attend the four day national convention in New York City in early March of this year. Held at the world famous (Theodore) Roosevelt Hotel, the biennial convention offered equal opportunities to listen to progress reports delivered by persons active within the United Nations organization, participate in panel discussions about topics of concern to the United States and the UN, and to |
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adopt a series of resolutions calculated to encourage public support for strong US leadership in the United Nations. At least fourteen members from UNA-MD were in attendance for UNA Members' Day, including five high school students who were the guests of UNA-MD because of their superior performance at the Model UN Conference held at Hood College earlier in the year."
Also of great importance are the substantive resolutions passed by UNA-USA at the convention. These include a variety of policy stances on issues such as UN reform, Iraq, and the Millenium Development Goals. The resolutions are intended for use in advocacy activities. You can read more about the various speakers, activities, and resolutions that were part of the Biennial Convention on our web site at http://www.unamd.org/content/view/63/47/.
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UNA-MD Membership Survey
In 2007, the leadership of UNA-MD hopes to more actively engage our growing membership so that we can expand our advocacy and educational programs. You may already have been contacted by phone by one of our Board members or other volunteers, in a project that is being led by Lane Berk. If you have not heard from someone, or have additional feedback you would like to share with the organization, we are providing an opportunity to do so with an online survey. The objective is to make sure we understand all of the goals, interests, and skills of our members and that our events and communications are addressing them. It is very important that we can provide opportunities to participate and volunteer for all of members.
Your participation in this survey will help the leadership of UNA-MD to better understand the goals, interests, and talents of our members. Your responses are completely anonymous. If you wish to follow-up with the Board, please send an email to info@unamd.org. We promise a quick response and that we will work to get you involved with the organization! To participate in the survey, visit our web site at http://www.unamd.org/component/option,com_philaform/Itemid,58/form_id,1/ or click on the Membership Survey link in the left side panel on any page of the site.
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Other News and Notes
UNA-MD Membership Award
Also announced at the UNA-USA Biennial Convention were awards for membership growth for 2006. UNA-MD repeated their 2005 performance in 2006 by showing ten percent membership growth again. Thanks to all our members for continuing to support the mission of UNA!
High School Essay Contest Winner
UNA-MD would like to congratulate Kyle Hutzler of Huntingtown High School for his excellent entry, "Maternal Health and the Feasibility of Meeting the Millenium Development Goals." His winning essay was entered in the UNA-USA national level contest. Download the essay at http://www.unamd.org/media/MaternalHealth_Kyle_Hutzler_Entry.doc.
UNA-USA Updates on the UNA-MD Web Site
In an effort to make sure our members don't have to go far to get the latest updates from UNA-USA, we have recently added a section to our web site called Info from UNA-USA. Summaries of all email communications from UNA-USA will be posted there, organized by month. Keep checking the page for the current month, as it will be updated on an ongoing basis. Visit http://www.unamd.org/content/category/7/24/57/ for more.
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