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  • “The Lack of Sustainability is Going to Affect Us All; it’s Already Affecting Us”

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) hosted a panel discussion at its Washington, DC office, titled “Best Practices on Sustainable and Responsible Tourism”. The conversation included international speakers such as Natasha Despotovic, GFDD/DREFF’s Executive Director and President, Villa Serena Hotel in Samaná, Dominican Republic; Jake Kheel, Vice President, Grupo Puntacana Foundation (and
    co-director of the documentary ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’); Martha Honey, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) and Maryanne Culpepper, Executive Director, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF).

  • GFDD Hosts Discussion on Environmental Activism and Journalism In Its Washington, D.C. Offices

    In addition to the successful Dominican Night at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Dominican filmmakers presented two documentaries on Dominican conservation efforts, on Tuesday, March 20, the GFDD and DREFF hosted a special side event on “Environmental Journalism and Activism:  Creating and Sharing the Frontline Stories.”  The event was held at the GFDD-DC offices, and moderated by Natasha Despotovic, the Foundation’s Executive Director and DREFF
    Director.

  • GFDD/Funglode Supported a Panel Discussion at the CSW62

    On Monday, March 12. 2018 at the Gallery Room in New York. The event titled “Economic Empowerment of Rural Women through Access to Innovative Financing and Effective Partnerships” brought together a variety of expert speakers who generate substantial discussions about the effectiveness of the financial services available to rural women and shared examples of successful strategies while proposing more effective measurements to improve the rural woman welfare.

  • “No Country Can Afford to Ignore Higher Education”

    On February 8th, 2018 GFDD hosted an interesting and timely discussion on successful education and labor markets, with Maria Marta Ferreyra, Senior Economist, Office of the Regional Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank, and author of “At a Crossroads. Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Ferreyra presented the main results of her recent publication and gave an insightful regional panorama of the higher education sector; she also
    commented on the book “Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students”, by Professor Harry Holzer of Georgetown University and Sandy Baum of the Urban Institute.

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