ISC News
08.14.2010 Bridge the Gulf Youth Media Workshop Helps Gulf Coast Youth tell Their Stories
ISC's Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network organized a digital media workshop that helps young people tell their stories and share their challenges, particularly in the wake of the BP oil disaster.
07.28.2010 Multi-National Group of Young Community Leaders Visits ISC
A group of 26 young leaders from around the globe visited ISC as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program to learn about Vermont's experience in nonprofit management.
04.29.2010 Chinese Delegates Visit Mississippi Gulf Coast
ISc organized an exchange for eight Chinese delegates from Sichuan, who are visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast to learn about rebuilding sustainably in the wake of disaster.
04.29.2010 Chinese visitors tour Gulfport
04.20.2010 For them, Earth Day was late in coming
Sustainable Communities Network member Derrick Evans, and his community of Turkey Creek, MS, have fought hard to preserve coastal wetlands and ensure that minority areas are recognized in environmental efforts.
08.11.2010 USAID Releases Latest NGO Sustainability Index
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently released its latest NGO Sustainability Index for Central & Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the 13th edition of the report. For the Serbia section, ISC, based on its history building Serbia's Civil Society sector, conducted interviews, collected data, and wrote reports complete with analysis and scores, all of which informed the final index.
07.15.2010 ISC hosts two Climate Leadership Academies on Low Carbon City Planning and Development in China
ISC held its first two Climate Leadership Academies in China this July, one in each of the country’s most industrialized provinces, Guangdong and Jiangsu. The trainings, organized in the cities of Guangzhou (July 8-10) and Nanjing (July 13-14), focused on low carbon city planning and development.
07.12.2010 ISC signs on to InterAction's policy recommendations on the Millennium Development Goals.
ISC has signed on to InterAction's policy paper that outlines key recommendations from U.S.-based international NGOs (nonprofits) on each of the eight Millennium Development Goals. The NGO community strongly believes the Obama administration should include these recommendations in its promised global plan to be presented at the MDG Summit in September 2010.
06.16.2010 Call for Applications
ISC is inviting teams of senior city leaders and key stakeholders to apply to attend our Climate Leadership Academy in Boston in September.
05.26.2010 Climate Leadership Academy on Green Job Creation.
From May 24-26, teams from 15 cities around the country are convening in Washington, DC to learn how they can accelerate green job creation.
