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Anthony Davidson Appointed New Member of GFDD Advisory Committee
March 23, 2016 - GFDD is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anthony R. Davidson, Dean of the School of Business at Manhattanville College, as the newest member of the foundation’s Advisory Committee. Davidson, who has spent the past 30 years leading organizations and managing key initiatives across a wide range of industries, and generating new growth opportunities... Continue Reading >
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Emotions and Surprises During the First DGT of the Year With Fernando Villalona
March 23, 2016 - For its first Dominican Get Together of the year, GFDD/Funglode welcomed today Fernando Villalona, el Mayimbe, one of the most famous and emblematic artists of the Dominican Republic, to talk about his life and more than 45 years of musical career at the Miami Dade College. Isabel Palacio, Academic Counselor at Miami Dade College and... Continue Reading >
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GFDD/Funglode Praises Dominican Women Writers in the US
March 23, 2016 - "The 13th International Book Fair of Dominican Women Writers in the United States, dedicated this year to the writer Kianny Antigua, was held in New York from March 18 to March 20, with the theme: "The feminine creation is auto-reflective ". The fair, one of the most important events of the Dominican writers community residing... Continue Reading >
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Women Artisans Learn to Create Art from Waste at CUNY
March 21, 2016 - The City University of New York (CUNY) hosted a workshop of creative recycling organized by the GFDD program ReCrearte, within a series of workshops held in March in New York City, March 17. The event, led by Bertha Santana, was aimed at women artisans, who learned to recover waste and transform it into new objects... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom to Attend Manhattanville College Spring Job and Internship Fair
March 21, 2016 - For the first time, InteRDom will be participating in the Spring Job and Internship Fair at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York from 12:30 – 3:00 pm on Friday, March 25, 2016. The fair will be held in Reid Castle and is hosted by the Center for Career Development. Undergraduate, graduate students and alumni from... Continue Reading >
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Praising Dominican Natural Beauty and Creating Environmental Awareness at the DCEFF
March 19, 2016 - There were conversations about environmental awareness and sustainable development as well as praise for the natural beauty of the Dominican Republic. Film was once again used not just for entertainment but as a vehicle to show the world the issues that most matter and to spread the word about them, because they are after all,... Continue Reading >
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“Women and girls have dreams, but femicide steals those dreams”, States the Dominican Deputy Attorney General for Women Affairs During GFDD UN Event
March 18, 2016 - GFDD hosted a panel discussion at the UN today to celebrate the 60th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60). The event, entitled “Efforts to Reduce Violence against Women and Promote Gender Empowerment in the Dominican Republic and Abroad”, looked to contribute to the review theme of CSW60: The elimination and prevention... Continue Reading >
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Parents and Children Learn About Creative Recycling at School
March 18, 2016 - As part of a series of workshops, organized by GFDD’s ReCrearte program through March in New York, on Wednesday the 16th, Juan Pablo Duarte School opened its doors to around 60 parents and 30 children. The workshop by ReCrearte coordinator Bertha Santana was possible thanks to the collaboration of the institution´s Parents Association, in particular... Continue Reading >
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Discussing the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
March 17, 2016 - GFDD participated in the United Nations Environment Programme''s (UNEP''s) round table discussion and consultation ahead of the UN Environment Assembly on "Delivering the Environmental Dimension of the UN''s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda." The event took place on 17 March 2016 at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C. As an accredited organization of UNEP, GFDD... Continue Reading >
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Celebrating Women at the DCEFF
March 17, 2016 - Natasha Despotovic, executive director of GFDD and DREFF, shared a panel in which she presented GFDD’s latest production, Value of Life, with two other renowned female directors For the 4th year, Women in Film and Video hosted a breakfast at Restaurant Nora in Washington D.C. during the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation´s Capital (DCEFF)... Continue Reading >
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“The Mystery of Oil Prices”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
March 17, 2016 - Over production by OPEC countries and a drop in demand from China has driven down the price of “black gold.” Although in recent weeks, prices have gone up again due to speculation in the futures market. Since June 2014 up to February of this year, that is to say the last 20 months, crude oil... Continue Reading >
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Children Learn to Create Art from Trash at the Riverfront Library in Yonkers
March 16, 2016 - The Riverfront Library of Yonkers, New York, hosted Yesterday a group of 32 children who learned about creating art with discarded materials that would normally end up in the trash bin. As part of a series of workshops, organized by GFDD’s ReCrearte program, children will learn to turn trash into new objects and create recycled... Continue Reading >
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Leonel Fernández Presents the 2015 Funglode/GFDD Awards
March 16, 2016 - Fernández led the ninth awards presentation alongside Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode; José Rafael Lantigua, director of Funglode’s Center for Cultural Studies; and Catherine Florentino, director of the Funglode/GFDD Awards. This Tuesday, March 15, the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) and the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) presented the 2015 Funglode/GFDD... Continue Reading >
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“Donald Trump: The Return of Paranoid Politics”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
March 15, 2016 - His personality shows a certain air of delusions of grandeur, of arrogance, of egocentrism and megalomania. Everything has his name on it: the Trump jet, Trump Tower, Trump University, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump Casino ... Following Barry Goldwater’s electoral triumph over Nelson Rockefeller in the Republican Party primaries of 1964, renowned American historian Richard Hofstadter... Continue Reading >
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Join Us to Celebrate Recycled Art!
March 8, 2016 - ReCrearte, an initiative of GFDD/Funglode, focuses on the three R’s of sustainability- reduce, reuse, and recycle. Workshops concentrate on repurposing discarded materials into new objects that can be sold for income and waste that can be turned into art. Bertha Santana, the program’s coordinator will be visiting New York City for a series of workshops... Continue Reading >
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Colombian Ambassador Urges Global Cooperation to Help Tackle Public Health Issues like the Zika Virus Outbreak
March 2, 2016 - For this February edition of the GFDD Global Roundtables, GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic welcomed H.E. Andrés González Díaz, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Organization of American States. The session considered the recent outbreak of the Zika virus and its socioeconomic consequences in Colombia and the Americas. Ambassador González Díaz stressed... Continue Reading >
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GFDD’s Dominican Film Showcase Brings Laughter in its Embassy Edition
March 1, 2016 - GFDD’s Dominican Film Showcase will be screening a wonderful selection of Dominican films in collaboration with the Dominican Republic Embassy in the United States. The quarterly program of the Dominican Film Showcase Embassy Edition, started with the first screening on March 1, 2016 in Washington, DC, with the film ‘No hay más remedio’ screened to... Continue Reading >
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Old T-shirts Become Tote Bags at CTC Boca Chica
March 1, 2016 - A group of 22 participants, mostly women, from young students to adults, gathered at a creative recycling workshop organized by ReCrearte to learn about environmental responsibility. The workshop took place at the CTC Boca Chica in Santo Domingo on February 29 and was coordinated by Bertha Santana. The activity began with a conversation on community... Continue Reading >
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Dominican Night at the 2016 Environmental Film Festival at the Nation`s Capital
February 29, 2016 - As part of the 2016 Environmental Film Festival at the Nation`s Capital (DCEFF) program, a Dominican Night will be hosted by DREFF on March 18th at the Hispanic Gala Theater in Washington, D.C. This opportunity is precious in fostering GFDD’s aim of facilitating the enrichment of the film culture of the Dominican Republic and bringing... Continue Reading >
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“At the Tomb of Karl Marx”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
February 29, 2016 - Despite the resounding collapse of the socialist model at the end of the 80s, nearly 200 years after the birth of Karl Marx, his ideas have begun to be vindicated by a diverse and renewed intellectual thought. Given his global ideological, political, and intellectual prominence throughout the years of my education, I always contemplated the... Continue Reading >
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