Our latest PEP crew from. Jan. 2014

THANK YOU!

• We raised nearly $30,000 to support peacebuilding around the world during our Raise Your Hand campaign thanks to YOUR support
• Brought together our 5th crew of Emerging Leaders with Palestinian and Israeli women leaders
• Delivered our 1st course through the Summer Peacebuilding Institute called Developing Peace Leadership in the Wilderness in West Virginia
• Conducted our 2nd Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding, which included participants from conflict-affected countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda
• Reunited alums at our 4th annual Connecting the Hub retreat in Croatia
• Delivered 12 experiential peacebuilding outreach and education events reaching over 480 people
• Worked with wonderful partners at OB Croatia, OBBaltimore, OB Costa Rica, UPEACE, Search for Common Ground Jerusalem, and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute

Site visit with our colleagues at Outward Bound Ecuador

Program Updates

• Ana and the Board are hard at work on a new 3-year plan, charting the course for new program development, new partnerships, and an increasingly stronger OB Peacebuilding. Look out for a blog on the new plan from Ana next month.
• The first program of 2014, the Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (PEP), led by our new Senior Facilitator Itamar Cohn, has ended safely and successfully. Congratulations to Itamar for leading his first PEP! This marks the third year of a great partnership with our partners Costa Rica Outward Bound and the University of Peace.
• Nettie and Itamar spent a week with Outward Bound Ecuador conducting a site visit as part of our risk management process for new program areas. We are excited to be working with Itamar again to deliver a June PEP with our colleagues in Ecuador.

2014 Spring Benefit

We are thrilled to announce that we will once hold our 2014 Spring Benefit at The New York Times Building on the evening of May 5, 2014.

A Save the Date will be sent out in February.

Untethered

“Soon technology is forgotten and we are home in the natural world.”

Read Nettie’s piece about disconnecting from the outside world.

 Upcoming Events

• Jan. 13 – 15: Ana was in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore productive meetings with our partner Search for Common Ground, The Foundation for Middle East peace, Vital Voices, Peter Kyle and OB Baltimore among others
• Feb. 5: Board meeting in New York 
• Feb. 6 – 15: Ana to Kigali, Rwanda for a site visit 
• Mar. 2: Ana has been invited to speak on experiential peacebuilding to the congregation at St. Bart’s Cathedral in NYC
• Mar. 27 – 28: Nettie will deliver an experiential peacebuilding workshop to the Rebecca Carver Institute on Experiential Learning at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro where she will present a daylong workshop to explore a unique and interactive framework that can be applied to better equip students to deeply engage with their global communities and to become more compassionate.