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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Festival Brings Latin Poetry to New York’s Financial District –Where Creativity Never Sleeps
Thanks to support from GFDD and FUNGLODE, the City’s financial district was revived with echoes of dulcet prose as 30 accomplished Latin Poets from the US and abroad, including the Dominican Republic, read excerpts of their work at the opening ceremony of the Latin American Poetry Festival in NYC, October 9-11.

Dominican Film Showcase Concludes Successful Event at Drexel University
On October 10, 2013, as part of its popular Dominican Film Showcase program organized to promote, share, and celebrate the stories, characters and history of the Dominican Republic with an international audience, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) in collaboration with Café Latino, and the assistance of the Drexel University Spanish Club, presented a Dominican film screening, Ana’s Struggle, produced by a
representative of a new generation of Dominican filmmakers, Bladimir Abud.

The IV Forum on Latin American Democracy: President of GFDD and FUNGLODE calls for Latin America to Strengthen Its Social and Democratic State of Law
The former President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, declared on Thursday in this city that, to avoid pessimism taking root in the region, Latin America has to work with a view to defining and implementing a new development model, which should be consistent and in harmony with the consolidation of a social and democratic state of law.

GFDD and FUNGLODE Present Fellow Program Candidate Findings at UN Headquarters
On Thursday, October 17, 2013, in honor of the United Nations International Day of Eradication of Poverty, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister organization in the Dominican Republic Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) in collaboration with the Dominican Republic Mission to the UN, will organize a Panel Discussion and Publication Launch entitled: “Local Capacity Development: The Key to Benefiting from
Globalization and Reducing Unemployment in the Dominican Republic“.

GFDD and FUNGLODE convene a panel on an “Innovative Financing for the Post-2015 Agenda: The Implications of a Financial Transaction Tax”
The first UN International Conference on Financing for Development was held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002. Fifty Heads of State and over 200 Ministers participated, as well as the private sector, civil society, trade, economic and monetary organizations.

GFDD and FUNGLODE Support Dominican Theatre Play in New York’s Upper Manhattan
On the heels of the huge success of the theatre play “MARÍA MONTEZ, 100 YEARS,” by Luis Dantes-Castillo, recently presented at the National Theater, Palace of Fine Arts, in Dominican Republic’s provinces of Barahona and in Baní, comes the story of the first Dominican who triumphed in Hollywood.

Announcing the 2013 InteRDom Conference: Millennials in the Workplace
InteRDom Internships in the Dominican Republic, a program of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister organization in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), is pleased to present the 8th edition of the annual InteRDom Conference, which will take place October 29-30, 2013 and
feature the topic “Millennials in the Workplace.”

GFDD and FUNGLODE successfully inaugurate Dominican Environmental Photo Exhibit at CCNY/CWE
Conservation photographer, naturalist and illustrated-book producer, Eladio Fernandez, took center stage, as GFDD/ FUNGLODE inaugurated his exhibit entitled Agriculture and People: Subsistence Practices of Hispaniola, to a crowded auditorium at the City College Center for Worker for Education on October 3, 2013.

Leonel Fernández negotiates Agreement with the New York Presbyterian Hospital to Benefit Medical Students and Professionals
The former Dominican President and honorary President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), Dr. Leonel Fernández, visited Columbia University’s Presbyterian Hospital, to begin laying the groundwork with its authorities for the signing of an inter-agency exchange agreement that would benefit medical students and professionals from both the Dominican Republic and the United States.

New Generation of Dominican Filmmakers to be Presented at Drexel University
As part of its popular Dominican get-togethers program organized to promote a better understanding of the richness and diversity of Dominican Culture, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) in collaboration with Café Latino, and the assistance of the Drexel University Spanish Club and will be hosting a Dominican film screening, to be held on October 10th, 2013 at Papadakis Integrates Science Building, Drexel University.