July 2019 - Global Foundation for Democracy and Development

Monthly Archives: July 2019

GFDD Joined Stakeholders in New York City to Protect Oceans and Seas
GFDD, together with multiple stakeholders from all around the world, discussed several ideas to preserve the oceans at the special meeting ‘Building Support for Our Ocean’, held in New York City this week. The event was co-sponsored by partner organizations as the Permanent Missions of Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, and Vanuatu to the United Nations, as […]

Luis Porto
Senior Advisor, Strategic Counsel for Organizational Development and Management for Results, Organization of American States (OAS)

Global Roundtable Interview with the OAS’ Luis Porto Covers Democratic and Development Challenges in the Americas
Washington, D.C. – The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) was pleased to welcome Senior Advisor to the Strategic Counsel for Organizational Development and Management for Results at the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Porto, to the organization’s offices in Washington, D.C. for a Global Roundtables interview. On July 24 diplomat and GFDD […]

New Study on Prison Reform in the Dominican Republic launched
Jennifer Peirce, holder of a master’s in international relations—published on July 23 at Funglode—through GFDD’s Fellows program. Santo Domingo – Throughout 15 years of political changes and budgetary restrictions, the Dominican New Prison Management Model has adapted, integrated lessons, and shared its experiences and tools with neighbor countries in Latin America. The model stands in […]

“Institutional Democratic Revolution”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
With its triumph in the congressional or midterm elections of 2006, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), for the first time, achieved a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. This allowed us, at that time, to maintain that as a result of those elections, a reencounter with history had occurred in the […]

Remembering Fernando Báez, Family and Friends Pay Tribute to the Renowned Dominican Filmmaker in the Latest GFDD Dominican Get-Together
New York, July 16, 2019 – Last Friday, July 12, in the latest installment in its Dominican Get-Togethers series, GFDD New York offered an intimate evening of commemoration of the late filmmaker Fernando Báez Mella, including a chat with his family members María Cordero de Báez and Arturo Báez and a screening of his nature […]

“Misión Estrella” in Washington, D.C.: Honoring the Memory of a Great Dominican Filmmaker
Honoring the memory of Dominican filmmaker and photographer Fernando Báez Mella, GFDD, with the collaboration of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to the United States, hosted a special screening of his last film “Misión Estrella” at the GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, D.C. The event was held on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, and had […]

GFDD Team Takes Part in the 2019 ISTE Conference on Educational Technology
Philadelphia, July 1, 2019— From June 23-26, 2019, GFDD sent its New York Office Director Yamile Eusebio, along with Josefina Pimentel, a collaborator of Funglode’s Center for Education Studies in the Dominican Republic, to represent the organization at the 40th Annual ISTE Conference and Expo, held this year at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center with more than […]

Digital Platforms and New Communication Strategies Boost Ibero-American Gastronomy in the 21st Century
GastroComunica—the first Conference on Communication and Gastronomy: Multiplatform Narratives in Gastronomy and Tourism—held at Funglode, highlighted this new phenomenon. With the participation of prominent journalists, chefs, and strategists from the spheres of communications and tourism, the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), through its DominicanaOnline.org initiative, together with Bocatips, held its first Conference on Communication […]