09.12.2011 Vermont’s Institute for Sustainable Communities Hosts Serbian Environmental Delegation
The ISC brings Serbian environmental and social leaders to Vermont to learn from the state’s successes in managing and finding value in the garbage stream.

08.18.2011 VT Delegation Announces $1M Grant to Montpelier-based Institute for Sustainable Communities
Through the grant, ISC will work with the joint HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC), which coordinates federal housing, transportation, water, and other infrastructure investments to make neighborhoods more prosperous, allow people to live closer to jobs, save households time and money, and reduce pollution.

08.17.2011 HUD and EPA Announce Awardees in a Historic Collaborative Effort to Invest in Sustainable Communities
The Institute for Sustainable Communities (Montpelier, VT) will create a National Sustainability Learning Network. This work will strengthen the capacity grantee communities to create more housing choices, make transportation more efficient and reliable, make more efficient investments in water and wastewater infrastructure, and build vibrant, healthy and economically prosperous neighborhoods for American families.

07.10.2011 Call for Applications—Climate Leadership Academy on Sustainable Economic Development
As communities struggle to rebound from recession, green, sustainable, or low-carbon development is seen as a pathway to economic recovery, resilience, and prosperity. This Climate Leadership Academy workshop will help local and regional officials work effectively with key private and nonprofit partners and state government counterparts to establish and implement sustainable economic development strategies while simultaneously reducing climate pollution and improving environmental quality.

06.01.2011 Call for Applications
ISC is seeking applications from urban sustainability directors to attend the Urban Sustainability Leadership Academy in July.

03.21.2011 Alcoa Foundation in Partnership with ISC - EHS Academy in China
Alcoa Foundation has joined a strategic partnership with ISC and other worldwide companies to support the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Academy in China’s Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces.

03.18.2011 ISC celebrates its 20th Anniversary
ISC celebrated its 20th Anniversary on March 17, 2011 at the home of the Netherlands Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos and her husband, Dr. Richard Huw Jones.

03.18.2011 ISC launches 2nd EHS Academy in Jiangsu
The new EHS Academy—housed at Nanjing University—will tackle EHS issues and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, a primary hub of the international supply chain.

02.05.2011 ISC Co-Funds Berkeley National Lab Report on Industrial Energy Auditing
China's industrial sector consumes about two-thirds of the country's primary energy. So industrial energy audits have become an important part of China's efforts to improve its energy intensity (energy per unit of GDP) and to help businesses identify opportunities to improve their energy efficiency.

01.06.2011 ISC Joins Living Cities, HUD, Harvard to Host 'Boot Camp' to Help Regions Transform Their Economies
ISC has partnered with Living Cities, a national corporate and philanthropic collaborative working to make America’s cities places of opportunity for low-income people, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Harvard Kennedy School to host a “boot camp” for metropolitan regions that have received millions in federal planning dollars to transform their regional economies.

12.14.2010 ISC Remembers Richard Holbrooke
We were saddened to learn of Ambassador Holbrooke’s death, but see this as a chance to remember why we are still working in the Balkans, how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go.

11.19.2010 ISC welcomes the Inaugural Faculty of our Climate Leadership Academy in China
The new faculty for 2010-2012 is made up of practitioners from cities and regions across the U.S. who have been trailblazers on climate action. We have been inspired by their enthusiasm to share hard-earned experience with their counterparts in Chinese cities, and to learn what it will take to adapt this experience to Chinese cities.

11.02.2010 Gulf Coast-Sichuan Exchange: Focusing on Sustainable Redevelopment
Environmental sustainability in post-disaster redevelopment was at the center of the exchange, which also included wide ranging discussions about the role of civil society organizations in the rebuilding process. The Gulf Coast delegation included representatives from local government, philanthropy, community-based organizations, and universities—all from some of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.

10.05.2010 ISC Case Studies Part of New Federal Report on Energy Efficiency
The report analyzes what motivates homeowners to invest in energy efficiency improvements. ISC contributed case studies and analysis of two residential retrofit programs.

09.10.2010 ISC's Civil Society Advocacy Initiative in Serbia Extended for 2 Years
The U.S. Agency for International Development has extended ISC's Civil Society Advocacy Initiative in Serbia for an additional 2 years. The extension will allow ISC to continue helping nonprofits in Serbia better represent the needs of ordinary people and become more influential partners with business and government.

09.05.2010 ISC Supports the Launch of a New Environmental Movement in Kosovo
Eco Movement is the first grassroots, community-based network in Kosovo that can address environmental issues and challenges on a national level. Utilizing hands-on approaches such as park and river clean-ups, as well as hiking and cycling tours that promote alternatives to automobiles, the network is helping ordinary citizens see the local, tangible impacts of their environmental protection efforts.

08.11.2010 Serbia's Sustainability Index Improves in USAID Report
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 our 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.

03.29.2010 U.S. EPA Joins Effort to Reduce Harmful Air Emissions in China's Guangdong Province
Agency representatives joined ISC's Guangdong Enviornmental Partnership for a workshop on air emissions management.

03.02.2010 Woodrow Wilson Center Highlights US-China Partnership for Climate Action
On March 11th, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will host ISC President George Hamilton, ISC Chief of Party in China Mel Rice, and WRI China Country Director Zou Ji, who will discuss the US-China Partnership for Climate Action, as well as the current political climate in China around environmental and energy issues.

02.22.2010 Moss Point, Mississippi to host the next meeting of the Sustainable Communities Network
The meeting will showcase Moss Point's progress in rebuilding a 'sustainable, river-friendly' community.

01.13.2010 Sustainable Development and Long-Term Disaster Recovery
ISC convenes a panel of experts at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to inform and support the deliberations of the Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group

10.06.2009 Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network Convenes in New Orleans
Representatives from coastal communities in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are in New Orleans to learn more about green community initiatives in the Lower Ninth Ward.

10.01.2009 USAID Announces Plans to Provide an Additional $4.3 million to Support Civil Society in Serbia
New funds will help civil society organizations in Serbia better represent the needs of ordinary people.

09.24.2009 U.S.-China Partnership to Green the Supply Chain
The Institute for Sustainable Communities, a featured participant at the Clinton Global Initiative, expands its Environment, Health and Safety Academy for Chinese managers.

09.14.2009 ISC's Macedonia Office Seeking Trainers on Public Policy Analysis and Writing Policy Papers
ISC's civil society program in Macedonia is seeking short-term trainers who can design and deliver trainings and technical assistance for not-for-profit organizations and development projects.

09.01.2009 Paving the Way for Green Transportation
ISC's Climate Leadership Academy gives city leaders new resources for transportation efficiency.

05.31.2009 "Green Boot Camp" at Harvard to Draw Top Officials from 17 U.S. Cities and the Obama Administration
The event will bring together national experts and multi-disciplinary teams of senior officials from 17 U.S. cities for intensive training and peer learning on ways to improve, accelerate and scale up their building energy retrofit programs.

05.22.2009 ISC Joins with Living Cities to Run "Green Boot Camp" at Harvard

05.12.2009 Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network to Convene in Plaquemines Parish May 13-15
Local groups to host community organizations from across the Gulf Coast for site visits, workshop on digital storytelling, reception and film fest.

05.12.2009 New US-China Initiative Promises to Transform Guangdong into Model for Green Development
ISC officially launches the Guangdong Environmental Partnership program to build a network of agencies, organizations, businesses and schools dedicated to transforming the province of Guangdong, China into a model of clean energy and sustainable economic development.

03.27.2009 ISC Signs on as a Partner in Education for GreenCities Florida Conference
Steve Nicholas, ISC's Director of Environmental and Climate Programs, will speak at the Sustainable Solutions for Business and Government conference in May.

02.14.2009 ISC Kosovo Requests Applications from National Advocacy Partners
ISC's Kosovo Civil Society Strengthening Project announces a grant competition for experienced nongovernmental organizations throughout Kosovo.

02.02.2009 Community Leaders from Mississippi and Louisiana Gather in Gulfport Feb 5-6 to Launch Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network
Three dozen community leaders from the most vulnerable coastal communities in Mississippi and Louisiana will convene February 5-6 in North Gulfport, Miss. for discussions, tours and presentations focused on creating healthier, more sustainable communities. The meeting is being convened by the Institute for Sustainable Communities, and hosted in partnership with the North Gulfport Community Land Trust.

11.19.2008 ISC Launches Program in Kosovo
ISC has launched a program in Kosovo to help ease the country's transition to an inclusive and democratic government.

10.27.2008 ISC and Lingnan College Launch Environment, Health & Safety Academy in China
Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University, and the Institute for Sustainable Communities, today announced a new partnership to establish an Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Academy in Guangzhou.

10.17.2008 ISC Launches $4 million U.S.-China Partnership

08.29.2008 ISC Serbia Announces Grant Competition

05.14.2008 Donate to China Earthquake Recovery
ISC has established a China Earthquake Recovery Fund to aid the communities devastated by the earthquake that struck southwestern China on Monday, May 12. Donations made to this fund will go to local partners working on the ground to help earthquake survivors.

05.06.2008 ISC's Website Wins Two Awards
Tag New Media, a Burlington, Vermont-based web design company, has won two awards for their redesign of ISC's website.

03.20.2008 ISC founder and former Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin publishes a new book on women in politics.
Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. Informed by conversations with elected women leaders from all levels, former three-term Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine M. Kunin asks: What difference do women make? What is the worst part of politics, and what is the best part? What inspired these women to run, and how did they prepare themselves for public life? How did they raise money, protect their families' privacy, deal with criticism and attack ads, and work with the good old boys?

03.20.2008 ISC's Leslie McCuaig and Betty Weiss to speak at forum on Community Renewal
Join us for a discussion at the International Resources Group in Washington, DC on how communities can both prepare for and reconstruct from natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami.

02.01.2008 ISC's Partner IFES Announces Grant Competition to Support Civil Society Participation and Issue Advocacy around the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia
The International Foundation for Election Systems announces a request for applications for a grant competition in support of civil society advocacy projects to be conducted before and after the Parliamentary elections in Georgia.

11.21.2007 ISC Supports the First Annual Corporate Philanthropy Excellence Awards in Serbia
On November 20th, the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund awarded the first annual award for excellence in corporate philanthropy as part of ISC's project in Serbia.

09.17.2007 ISC Opens Grant Competition for Advocacy Work in Serbia
The goal of the grant competition is to promote advocacy on national reform issues related to Serbia's Euro-Atlantic integration efforts and to encourage greater citizen participation in all aspects of public life.

08.23.2007 ISC Awards Grants for Advocacy in Serbia
ISC awards Advocacy in Practice grants to 14 nonprofit organizations for projects that encourage greater citizen participation in public life in Serbia.

07.30.2007 ISC's Project in Serbia Supports Drafting of the Law on Associations
A long-awaited law eases the way for Serbian nonprofit organizations.

05.18.2007 ISC Releases Publication on New England's Future
Energy independence, climate change and health care cited as major issues facing the region in the 21st century.

03.28.2007 National Report Reveals Leadership Revolution
ISC releases "Quantum Leadership: The Power of Community in Motion."

09.18.2006 Advocacy Institute and Institute for Sustainable Communities Join Forces
Merger will enhance community-based advocacy in the U.S. and around the world.