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The RPCVw Board Members: 2007-2008
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Sign you name and contact information so that wecan follow up with you on how to collaborate onthe project. 
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If the project requires Board approval, we caninvite members to come and present their ideas atone of our monthly board meetings. To Access go to: https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=rpcvwd&formId=341.) Move the Cursor to the Community Dropdown menu2.) Move the cursor down and select the last item,"Suggestion Form"3.) Complete the necessary information; those in bold arerequired fields.4.) Click the Submit tabAs a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer organization, ourmission is to help each of you live your third goal by bringingthe learnings from you volunteer service back home to theDC-metro area. So, whether it is organizing a cooking class,an intramural sports team, a workshop on greendevelopment, or any other pet project that you have in mind,contact us and help us to help you live your 3
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goal. Regards,  Jim Gore, President, RPCVw 
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL PEACECORPS ASSOCIATION
Looking Ahead to New NPCA Developments
On behalf of the NPCA, I am pleased to report on excitingdevelopments in the Peace Corps community. Our multi-yearNPCA restructuring has made us a more efficient andeconomical organization poised to have a major impact onPeace Corps-related issues:
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Mentoring recent RPCVs: Our mentoring programwith Peace Corps offers returning volunteers careerand readjustment advice from established RPCVs,through dynamic NPCA affiliates in Miami,Chicago and Portland, Oregon. We plan to build onthis pilot program over the next year.
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Save the date: We are planning with Peace Corpsfor 50th anniversary celebrations in as many as 139countries and across the nation, including acapstone event on the National Mall inWashington, D.C., June 23-26, 2011.
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To succeed, we need your support. Please considera special contribution to NPCA. You can contributeon-line atwww.peacecorpsconnect.orgor by mailat: NPCA, 1900 L Street, NW, Suite 404,Washington, D.C. 20036.
 At retreat planning our exciting RPCVw year 
 
President’s Corner
RPCVw swoops into the holiday season. 
Hello all, and happy holidays.In the midst of pumpkins, costumes, candy, turkeys, andfriends and family, RPCVw is calling on you, ourmembership, to help make us a better organization. The RPCVw Board is very excited with the events andprograms that we’ve already offered this year. We are alsogreatly encouraged by the positive feedback we’ve receivedfrom you all on events such as our socially consciousinvesting, Iftar dinner/lecture, and new members’ bike rideto Mt. Vernon; however, in order to continue to meet theexpectations of you, our members, I would like to requestyour input. Rather than functioning as a Board that decideswhich programs are best for our membership, we are lookingto you for ideas. In this light, please visitwww.rpcvw.org(link to bulletinboard), and tell us what you would like to see from RPCVwthroughout the year. We’re looking for ideas on events,programs, workshops, partnerships, and the like. If you havea pet idea that you’d like to actualize, let us try and help youdo so!When you access the bulletin board,
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enter your idea for a project/event. 
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include any reasoning you feel pertinent to ourunderstanding of the idea. 
 
 
Start Thinking about the 50
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Thinking ahead, let alone 4-plus years into thefuture, is not something that comes easily tomany people or institutions. However for sometime the National Peace Corps Association hasbeen doing just that, looking forward to the 50thanniversary of Peace Corps. Visit the PeaceCorps 50 landing(pagehttp://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/peacecorps50) on the NPCA website to get some very earlyinformation about plans for 2011. You can alsolearn about Peace Corps at 50: An AnniversaryStory Project(http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=1775&ref=&fin=2).
It's a Brave New World:NPCA and New Media
 
To connect with untapped segments of the PeaceCorps community, NPCA is experimenting withnew media and emerging social networking toolson the Internet. Look for us onYouTube.com
 
,Flickr.com,Facebook.comandWidgetbox.com  under the name
PeaceCorpsConnect
(some sitesmay require registration).We are particularly excited about the advocacyand community-building potential ofChange.org, which recently linked to Facebookand its millions of members. We have JUSTstarted out and would love your help in buildingour member numbers. Visit our page at:
 
http://www.change.org/peacecorpsconnect.And if you have ideas of how NPCA can use theInternet in innovative ways to further our sharedmission – to connect, inform, and engage thePeace Corps community – e-mail our Director ofNew Media, Erica Burman, atnews@rpcv.org.
Take a Vacation and Make aDifference
 
You joined the Peace Corps to serve and to learnfirst-hand about our world and its people. Nowwe invite you to do that again! Through a newcollaboration with Global Volunteers, NPCAmembers can connect and engage in serviceprojects around the globe - and at home - onshort term "volunteer vacations".
 
Whether you are 25 or 75, single or with aspouse and family, make a difference again byworking with at-risk children and theirfamilies.With your trip, you get to take a tax deduction.In addition, Global Volunteers makes acontribution to NPCA. And, you come homefrom your travels relaxed and refreshed,knowing that you've made a difference again.What more could you ask for?Plan your next trip now with GlobalVolunteers. (http://npca.globalvolunteers.org/welcome.asp).
Go Safely with Global Rescue
 
Global Rescue knows that former Peace Corpsvolunteers continue to travel extensively andfrequently visit remote locations. And while mostRPCVs fancy themselves experienced travel hands,it never hurts to be reminded of some commonsense travel tips. Visit the NPCA website(
http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=1697
 
) for a travel checklist from Global Rescue’sDirector of Flight Operations, plus information onGlobal Rescue’s partnership with the NationalPeace Corps Association.
Global Rescue
 (
http://www.globalrescue.com/plans.cfm
 
)is a membership organization that provides best-in-class emergency medical, aero medical evacuationand security services to individuals, families,corporations and educational institutionsdomestically and abroad.
School for International Training Announces New $10,000 NPCAScholarships
 
The School for International Training (SIT), ledby President Carol Bellamy (Peace CorpsVolunteer Guatemala 63-65, Peace CorpsDirector 93-95, Former Executive Director,UNICEF, and member, NPCA AdvisoryCouncil), announced increased National PeaceCorps Association academic scholarships of$10,000 to pursue master's degrees ininternational programs at the school'sBrattleboro, Vt., campus. The mission of SIT isto prepare students to be intercultural effectiveleaders, professionals, and citizens.
 
 
The NPCA Scholarship was established in 2000to recognize the long-standing ties between SITand the Peace Corps. Members of NPCA whohave one year or more of significant interculturalexperience are eligible to apply. Several awardsof $10,000 will be made each year. NPCAmembers can request information regarding thisexclusive scholarship opportunity at 800-336-1616 or 802-257-7751, or online athttp://www.sit.edu.
SAVING PEACE CORPS’ HISTORY
(before it’s too late)
 As we approach the 50th Anniversary of ThePeace Corps, the RPCV Archival Project hasbegun a renewed effort to seek out those whowere the pioneers of the Peace Corps, volunteersfrom the 1960s. Year by year we are losing thatcohort and their unique stories of volunteerservice. The Project hopes to add 3000 1960sinterviews to the National Archives at the John F.Kennedy Library in the RPCV Collection beforethe anniversary year; that would be about 10% ofthose who served during that period.The RPCV Archival Project is an informalnetwork of RPCVs who work to preserve PeaceCorps’ legacy by conducting oral historyinterviews of those who have served as PCVs. Inthe five years of its existence, more than 40 RPCVinterviewers have completed approximately 300interviews [SEE <jfklibrary.org> Search: TheRPCV Collection]. The Project’s basic resource isand will continue to be the unpaid voluntaryefforts of those RPCVs who’ve participated,operating in cooperation with NPCA Affiliategroups.We need people to volunteer to participate bybecoming interviewers; a commitment of threehours a month during 2007 could add 12 moreRPCV stories to the Collection. The Projectprovides training and orientation through anoperational guide; once started, participantswork directly with the RPCV Archivist at theKennedy Library.Interested? Questions? Comments?Contact Bob Klein (Ghana 1961-1963)Project OrganizerRPCVArchivalProj@att.net
 
Socially Responsible Investment101
 
On Monday, October 1
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, approximately 15interested RPCVs and friends gathered at theLatin American Youth Center in ColumbiaHeights to hear a presentation given by JustinConway, the Sales and Information Officer atCalvert Foundation, a nonprofit provider ofinnovative financial products and services thatchannel affordable capital to underservedcommunities and markets. Before joiningCalvert Foundation, Justin managed theCommunity Investing Program of Co-opAmerica and the Social Investment Forum,where he was instrumental in helping growthe overall demand for community andsocially responsible investing. Theseexperiences made him more than qualified toeducate the group on various ways to investtheir money, be it 401k, 403b or other funa way that contributed to the greater (or moreimmediate, depending on your preference)ds, inommunity.antayc According to Conway, the most importfactor to deciding where you invest iseducating yourself about where you minvest, as well as the types of socially-responsible issues in which you prefer toinvest (because there are a MULTITUDE ofthem). This situation is yet another example ofhow personal research can reward thoseinvolved. The three components of Socially-Responsible Investment (SRI) are Screen ing,hareholder Advocacy and CommunityT),arilyientationys ofhanneling much-needed funds to areas ineed of economic opportunity.SInvesting.Screening can be exclusionary (screening OUcompanies that finance certain issuesinclusionary (screening IN companies thatfinance certain issues), Comparative(companies compared for best-in-class) andBlended (a combination of above approaches).Shareholder advocacy can mean involvingyourself in a company that doesn’t necessmeet your screening requirements, but forwhich you use your position as a votingmember of that company’s Board to advocatefor policies that would meet your screeningrequirements, ranging from recommendationsto reporting transparency to office recyclingpolicies to CO2 emissions to sexual ornon-discrimination policies, etc. Communitinvesting is more of a local meancn 
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