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Associations Make a Better World Awards Winners2007 | 2006 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 US Association Category Overall Winner American Academy of Ophthalmology San Francisco, California Program: Rotary Club Host Project The Rotary Club Host Project is a partnership of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Rotary Clubs. The purpose is to reduce the rate of avoidable blindness and severe visual impairment by providing ophthalmologists from developing nations with opportunities for ophthalmic education that will directly affect the quality of eye care provided to patients in their respective countries. Carefully selected ophthalmologists are brought to the USA for two weeks of educational and professional, as well as cultural and social experiences. In addition, the partnership generates the goodwill, learning and lasting relationships among ophthalmologists that comes from cross-cultural knowledge and contact. Overall Winner Soroptimist International of the Americas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program: Soroptimist Club Grants for Women and Girls Soroptimist club members work to improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world. To help clubs meet community need, Soroptimist introduced the Soroptimist Club Grants for Women and Girls in 1997 to assist with community service projects. In 2006, Soroptimist awarded grants to thirty-four clubs in twelve different countries. Soroptimist Club Grants provide financial support to Soroptimist clubs working on innovative community projects that affect the economic, social and political progress of women and girls. Soroptimist Club Grants enable clubs to make a real difference in the lives of women and girls in their communities by addressing specific local needs. Club members, often in collaboration with other community organizations, develop locally-focused projects that help women and girls overcome the daily burdens and obstacles that keep them from leading healthy, productive lives – emotionally, physically and economically. Some projects from the 2006 year include offering resources for Japanese women fleeing domestic violence by establishing a local domestic violence shelter; funding micro-enterprise artisan projects for low-income women in Brazil, India and the Philippines allowing them to support themselves and their families; providing shelter for run-away Korean teenage girls seeking refuge from a life of violence and poverty; and making available free health care services for low-income women of Paraguay. Honorable Mention Medical Missions for Children Westford, Massachusetts Program: MMFC Training Program Honorable Mention Contemporary Ceramic Studios Association Fresno, California Program: Great Shapes Auction Developing Nation Category Overall Winner Foundation for Africa Non-Governmental Organization Management Lusaka, Zambia Program: Africa Social Organization (NGOs) Leadership and Management In the early 1990s, social sector NGOs began to emerge in Africa. Though a sign of democratic health, emerging NGOs lack relevant competencies in leadership and management, organizational structures and transparent decision making processes. African NGOs are the engines of African Economic development. The Main objective of this program was to provide over 450 African NGOs leaders and Executives with the leadership and management knowledge and skills necessary and required to start and run African NGOs efficiently and successfully. The program included a financial and gifts mobilization workshop, a seminar on NGOs leadership and management, and long distance education and training courses. Attendees came from organizations with varying agendas - training aimed to create cohesive African communities with health, decent housing, dignified work, freedom, justice, peace and unity. All efforts contribute to making a better world. Honorable Mention Public Non-Government Partnership “CIVITAS Eastern Russia” Petropavovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russian Federation Program: Civic Competence of the Youth in the Russian Far East Honorable Mention Banks Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Program: Foundation of New, State-level Association Honorable Mention Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment Kairouan, Tunisia Program: Community Waste Management Program, Ain-Jloula Rotary International (Illinois, USA ) Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. In 2005, more than 2,000 Rotarians from 102 clubs joined in a massive effort to immunize 24.4 million children under the age of five in Indonesia. Campaigns lasted from the end of August through the end of September, marking Indonesia’s largest mass immunization drive ever. Great progress has been made. The number of polio cases worldwide has been slashed by 99 percent. As a result, five million cases of paralysis have been prevented, and 250,000 pediatric deaths from polio have been averted. In addition, Honorable Mentions Developing Nation Category Overall Winner The Association of Civil Society Support Centers is a national, open, independent, non-profit, non-governmental network, established by nine organizations (civil society support centers) in August 2002. It is an organization that creates opportunities, provides services and leverages resources with the purpose to develop a dynamic, effective and sustainable civil society in In 2005, the Association of Civil Society Support Centers in As a result of the “I Am for Honest Elections” campaign, the first election in the history of Honorable Mentions
Association for Protection of Shareholders Akcioner2001 ( Developed Nation Category Overall Winner The International Society of Nephrology promotes the global advancement of nephrology. ISN aspires towards the elimination of kidney disease worldwide. Chronic non-communicable diseases have now replaced communicable diseases as the leading threat to public health and healthcare budgets worldwide. Collectively, if left unchecked, these diseases will claim 36 million lives by the year 2015. In response, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) have launched a World Kidney Day to be held annually on the second Thursday of March. From Albania to Zimbabwe, well over 100 participating organizations spanned a total of 45 countries representing an interesting and welcome mélange of societies, foundations, universities, colleges, hospitals, associations and trusts – an encouraging sign for the future given that the success of any World Day largely relies on the participation and willing of all, irrespective of society/federation membership or affiliation to specific professional communities. Honorable Mentions Petroleum Services Association of
2004 Winners Social Achievement Category Winner: Million Dollar Round Table Program/Project: Seeds of Life Program The Seeds of Life Grant Program was established in 2002 to provide seed money to organizations in an effort to help them grow. The 2003-2004 project started with a focused appeal at the MDRT Annual Meeting to the 6,000+ members in attendance. Members were asked to make a "Million Dollar Promise" - a promise to help support grant efforts that would purchase wheelchairs for the disabled and build playgrounds for children in impoverished areas of the world. The most support raised at a meeting prior to this year was approximately $50,000. This appeal, however, generated support of $325,000 from representatives of over 40 countries. MDRT members then signed on to volunteer to work with other members from around the world to change lives through these projects: playground build in Tianjin, China; wheelchair distribution in China; and wheelchair distribution in Jamaica. Economic Achievement Category Winner: Association of Business Incubators and Technoparks of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ABIT) Program/Project: Partner in Regional Trade Promotion Project The Regional Trade Promotion Project enhances trade opportunities within Central Asia and between Central Asia and other parts of the world. Available to small and medium-sized enterprises in all Central Asian Republics, Regional Trade Promotion provides an Internet-based marketplace at www.smetradecenter.net linking buyers and sellers in Central Asia with each other and with the global market. Central Asian companies benefit from regional and international exposure for their products; access to a broader, market-oriented supply base; general trade and economic data on the various regions of Central Asia; and opportunities to compete for business with specific buyers in search of products and services. Advocacy/Policy Achievement Category Winner: Montenegro Business Alliance Program/Project: National Business Agenda MBA's National Business Agenda consists of seven challenges that shape the future of Montenegro and create a new platform for economic growth and development. The goals of the agenda are to: decrease the overall payments (taxes and contributions) on wages; decrease taxes and improve tax laws and regulations; decrease state bureaucracy and business barriers; promote conditions of doing business in the tourism sector; promote conditions for doing business in the area of wood-processing; increase economic freedoms through new customs rules which will increase competition; and ensure stable sources of electric energy for the future. 2003 Winners Social Achievement Category Winner: AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. (Worldwide) Moved by the events of September 11, 2001, AFS successfully engaged its network of organizations around the globe to increase understanding, communication and cooperation between Muslim and non-Muslim peoples, resulting in a wide variety of activities including educational forums, community service, outreach to Muslim immigrant populations in Western countries, and several first-time intercultural exchanges between Muslim and non-Muslim countries worldwide. Economic Achievement Category Winner: National Association of Meat and Dairy Processors in Macedonia Developed, promoted, and expanded a now widely recognized and used of Seal of Quality Program, which has had a major positive impact on enhancing the brand, safety, and competitiveness of meat and dairy industries in Macedonia. Advocacy Achievement Category Winner: National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria Implemented a financial decentralization process in Bulgaria by organizing discussion forums and building consensus among 263 member municipalities, institutionalizing dialogue between the central and local government sectors, developing and clarifying standards and responsibilities, and raising the profile and role of local authorities/municipalities throughout the country.
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