Monthly Archives: December 2014

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  • Major Changes Needed for Financing Development Post-2015

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, in collaboration with the UN Association of the United States of America Council of Organizations (UNA-USA COO), convened a panel of speakers at the UN Church Center on December 18, 2014 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations (UN).

  • New Fellow Christina Davidson Explores the History of Protestantism in the Dominican Republic

    The Fellows Program, an initiative of GFDD and FUNGLODE, is excited to introduce its newest scholar Christina Davidson, doctoral candidate in history at Duke University. Christina’s body of research focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean with a specialty in Dominican History. Her dissertation, entitled, “Converting Spanish Hispaniola: Transnational Genealogies and Racial Politics of Protestantism in the Dominican Republic,” explores the intersection of
    national, racial, and religious imaginaries and how ideas about race, religion, and the nation change across time and within the transnational, circum-Caribbean world.

  • GFDD/Funglode’s Film Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience wins the award for Best Documentary at the Miami Short Film Festival

    The documentary Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience, produced by Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), won Best Documentary Award at the 13th Edition of the Miami Short Film Festival (MSFF), held from December 5 to 12, which showcased over 100 short films. This is the third award that the Dominican film -directed by Natasha Despotovic, Executive Director of GFDD- has received from some of the
    most prestigious film festivals of its kind worldwide in addition to eleven official festival selections.

  • ReCrearte Participates in the Biodiversity Conservation Project at La Humeadora Mountain National Park

    The ReCrearte program, an initiative of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), participated last December 9th in the activity “Sharing experiences for the conservation of biodiversity”, in which the Pro-Nature (Pronatura) Fund showed the cooperation work that has been carried out by civil society organizations, government institutions and the private sector to promote the effective management of La Humeadora Mountain National Park.

  • Christmas Get-together with GFDD Partners and Team Members at the Washington, D.C. Office

    Sponsors, partners, friends and colleagues of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) are the fundamental pillars that help it carry out its mission: to create and implement initiatives that further development, in all its forms, in the Dominican Republic and throughout the Western Hemisphere. On this opportunity, the non-profit organization took advantage of the start of the holidays to thank them all by means of a cocktail that took place in its Washington, D.C.
    office last December 4th.

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