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Speaker(s) Wanted

DATED Events

OPEN / ONGOING activities
• Collecting Stories & Pics to Digital 50th Anniv Library
• Ideas for PC 50th Anniv
• Mentoring: PC & NPCA
• WorldViewMagazine
• Peace Corps-Wiki
• RPCV Print Cloth

5.26.10

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 Community Bulletin Board

  • Want to have a potluck with RPCVs who served in your COS?
  • Having a garage sale and want to invite the SDPCA folk?
  • Seeking a dear PC friend who served with you?  
  • Want to invite us all to a party?  
  • Know of an peace activist event you think we should attend?

Send your notices to from which they will be posted.

  • Be sure to include important details and dates
  • Edit your material to approximately 45 words or less
  • Though this website is for RPCVs, access is open to all 
  • We recommend use of email addresses only and with discretion

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50th Anniversary Digital Library – Calling all RPCVs and Volunteers!

Peace Corps invites you to contribute to our digital library—a searchable collection of photos, stories and documents about Peace Corps, the Volunteer experience, and the agency’s legacy of service around the globe.

As we approach Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary, please help us reach our goal of including photos and stories from each country where Volunteers have served, and from each decade of Peace Corps history.  You can contribute one story and up to five photos from your Peace Corps service using our online process. 

Interested?  Go to http://collection.peacecorps.gov/index.php to start your submission or browse the growing collection of materials

Questions? Suggestions? 

Email digital@peacecorps.gov

–Kirsten Radewagen kradewagen@peacecorps.gov

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Ongoing: 2011
On PC's 50th Anniversary: Ideas from local Groups

It’s not too early to begin thinking about how you and your affiliate group want to celebrate Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary in 2011.

This is a great opportunity for RPCV groups to coalesce and plan events that celebrate Peace Corps’s legacy. Please check out the attached document from Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary committee that outlines some ideas and themes for the celebration.

If you have any plans or ideas that you would like to discuss with us, we’d love to hear from you!

Please feel free to contact Kate Kuykendall, 310-356-1106 or kkuykendall@peacecorps.gov, with your ideas!

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Posted: August 4, 2008 -- Ongoing
Mentoring for Global Citizenship:
Become a Mentor / Contact a Mentor

Coordinating Connection through--
--NPCA (nationally) - http://www.rpcvmentoring.org
--Mercy Corps (nationally) - http://www.mercycorps.org
--Local Affiliates – SDPCA (locally) -

• Connecting RPCVS across the country to mentors
• Identifing RPCVs to be mentors to other RPCVs
To learn more about the RPCV Mentoring Program, visit the website at http://www.rpcvmentoring.org

• SDPCA Mentoring
SDPCA's has identified local RPCVs for others who seeking mentors in a variety of topics.
.......Go to SDPCAs Member-to-Member Services
.......Contact for more information --
.............. to serve as a mentor and/or to work with a mentor.

• Put your Peace Corps Experience to Work: Become a Mentor!
NPCA and Mercy Corps (http://www.mercycorps.org) created the **NPCA/Global Citizen Corps Mentoring Program** through which Returned Peace Corps Volunteers provide key advice, support and mentoring to exceptional high school student leaders selected each year to join Mercy Corps' Global Citizens Corps (GCC) Leadership Program.

The program provides a unique opportunity for RPCVs to help educate, inspire and empower young people from across the U.S. to fight global poverty - and it's all done online! By mentoring tomorrow's leaders, we support the Third Goal of Peace Corps. We foster the next generation of Peace Corps Volunteers. We keep the flame alive.

Learn more about the program and apply online at: http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=1221

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Due by: Ongoing
WorldView Magazine, (NPCA)
Call for Submissions

In three years, Peace Corps will celebrate its 50th anniversary. How has it fared in that time? What is its legacy—and its future? Can a bigger, better and bolder Peace Corps be part of an overall "smart power" effort to restore U.S. standing in the world to better help address pressing global problems?

Tentative topic areas include:

  • Goals and Models: If Peace Corps was invented now what would it look like, how would it be organized? How does Peace Corps stack up with its competition?
  • Partnership: How could Peace Corps be more open to and creative in working with other entities?
  • Technology: How is technology changing Peace Corps and what can Peace Corps do to make better use of technology?
  • Size and Scale: How could we scale Peace Corps and obtain the resources required to do that and still ensure quality?

Article length should be between 700 and 1000 words, Word document format. Accompanying photos (digital format, high resolution) are welcome. Submissions can be e-mailed to pubs@rpcv.org. Those articles not published in the magazine may be published on the http://www.worldviewmagazine.com website. We reserve the right to determine what will be published, where.

And as always, WorldView welcomes submissions for its other sections.

Please see the WorldView Writer Guidelines (http://www.worldviewmagazine.com/media/pdf/WVGUIDELINES_032707.pdf) for details.

Erica Burman (The Gambia 87-89)
Director of Communications
National Peace Corps Association, 1900 L Street, NW Suite 404, Washington, DC 20036
Tel. 202.293.7728 ext 16...... E-mail: news@rpcv.org

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posted: February 17, 2008
PeaceCorpsWiki
Help Build a History of our PC Experience
(PCWiki is NOT affiliated with Peace Corps)

Where: Online collaborative history
.....A "Wiki" (place in Wikipedia) for recording PC experience
.....http://www.PeaceCorpsWiki.com/
When: Ongoing, to access, add to, modify when you wish

An Open Letter (Download full text of e-mail letter):

Dear RPCV,

For the first time in its almost fifty year history, the volunteers themselves are happy to announce the creation of a wiki based website dedicated to collaborative work.

An institutional memory of this complex organization is being built day by day creating a bridge to an exciting future. This is an effort, lead by recently returned volunteers, to positivity develop the concept called Peace Corps-- the history of Peace Corps and the projects that volunteers have done in over 139 countries around the world, ever since Kennedy announced 'And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.'

There are now a handful of administrators volunteering their time to the project and regular users (both registered and anonymous) have added almost a 1,000 pages of contributions.

However, we still need your help!

The ultimate goal is to have everything cross referenced, searchable, and freely available to anyone interested in the Peace Corps; countries, cities, sectors, volunteers - all relating to the Peace Corps service and its history for the past 47 years.

An example:
We're hoping that eventually volunteers would be able to read what progress has been made in Tamali, Ghana in the past 40 years.

  • Which volunteers were stationed there?
  • What did the Education volunteers have to do differently in The Gambia then Education volunteers in Senegal, Guinea or Mauritania?
  • What projects did volunteers in Malawi work on 10 years ago, were any in Mzuzu?
  • You are even encouraged to create a page about yourself!
  • What country did you serve in?
  • What projects did you work on?
  • What was in like serving in Venezuela in 1962, or being one of the 21 total volunteers who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2000-2002?

We even made it easy for you - on the main page is a 'Add Volunteer' box - just type in your name and the hard part is done for you!

  • Served in Farafenni, The Gambia or Gyumri, Armenia?
  • Want to make a page about your town or village? Please do.
  • Think the page for your country of service needs a few pictures?
  • Welcome to upload them and post them. (As of now we're using roughly the same standards as Wikipedia)
  • The page for Ukraine has pictures of what the electrical outlets look like!

You can't break PeaceCorpsWiki - anything can be fixed or improved later. Don't be afraid to edit — anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold! You do not need to register as a user to contribute; anonymous legitimate edits/suggestions are welcome.

More than 190,000 people have answered the call to serve, and the PeaceCorpsWiki site provides the tool necessary to capture and disseminate this valued knowledge. You are welcome to join us and contribute your first-hand knowledge to this collective public information exchange.

Thank you,

-Mike Sheppard, RPCV / The Gambia ('03-'05)
http://www.PeaceCorpsJournals.com/
http://www.PeaceCorpsWiki.com/

This e-mail can be forwarded and distributed freely to other RPCVs who may be interested in this project. We only ask it remain intact, in full. Thank you.

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Disclaimer: PeaceCorpsWiki (.com/.org) and PeaceCorpsJournals (.com/.org) are not
affiliated with the United State Peace Corps. The contents of these websites belong to the group's members and do not reflect any position or policy of the U.S. Government or the Peace Corps.
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WANTED VOLUNTEER WEB DEVELOPERS:

If you are a web developer we are interested in your help. We are working on including
several Web 2.0 applications to complement Peace Corps wiki and blog sites. Currently,
we can only offer kundos and karma..... in true Peace Corps spirit….but the Peace Corps
Wiki (.com/.org) and Peace Corps Journals (.com/.org) are filing for 501c (3) status, and
around the beginning of next year, should have it. So, if institutional memory building
and creating connections across the world to build a more sustainable future is close to
your heart, WE CAN USE YOUR PROGRAMING HELP = GIVE YOU A STAKE IN
THE FUTURE OF THESE SITES AND THE NONPROFIT THAT WILL MANAGE
THEM. The project has been carried forward on volunteer spirit; we have great plans for
the websites that are developing and the Nonprofit that will manage them. Functionality
of the sites needs to be increase with new sets of tools for better search, organization, and
filing. With close to +200,000 RPCVs, it likely these sites will be swamped with people
sharing stories and tips about their service and sites...we welcome you this massive
experiment in free information sharing.

SOME SKILLS, we would like:

* Server related skills including domain management, IIS, SSL, Database
* management (SQL Server and MySQL), PHP, and Apache
* Database design, development, and programming in MS SQL 2000/2005
* Experience with 3rd party COTS applications (wiki, CMS, CRM) applications.
* Coldfusion, .Net (C#), PHP
* JavaScript, HTML, XML and CSS skills
* Ruby on Rails, AJAX
* Google Earth, Microsoft Live, KLM, Mashup, and FaceBook applications

Let us know if you are interested in any aspects of the project, either as a contributor,
promoter, or web developer. (or any other field!) This position is not limited to those that
served in the Peace Corps.
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Download full text of e-mail letter.

 

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tba - Date(s) To Be Arranged
Speak to Groups about PC Service

Calling all potential RPCV speakers please! We have SEVERAL requests to fill for your consideration. Please review and let me know.
PC Week (March 1 to March 7, 2010) is coming up!!

Peace Corps Week celebrates the anniversary of the Peace Corps around March 1. Peace Corps Week 2010 is from March 1 to March 7. Traditionally, returned Volunteers and friends of the Peace Corps show solidarity by participating in Third Goal activities in honor of the work of the agency and its Volunteers of the past and present. Additionally, through concerted efforts by returned Volunteers and Peace Corps regional offices, elected leaders acknowledge Peace Corps Week through proclamations.

For more information or to sign on as a speaker, contact Lennox Miller

 

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Posted: December 1, 2007
RPCV SPECIAL:
Peace Corps cloth
From Friends of Cameroon

If you are looking for the perfect Peace Corps related gift, look no further. The Friends of Cameroon has designed a stunning, multilingual "pagne" (the six-meter length of African cloth) that incorporates the Peace Corps logo, the continent of Africa, and the names of all the countries where Peace Corps has ever been active in Africa. An image of the cloth is available at http://www.friendsofcameroon.org

Each piece is enough cloth for one woman's outfit or 2 to 3 men's jumpers. The cloth also makes a creative table cloth, window curtain, wall decoration, and more. The pagne project helps to fund development projects in Cameroon, including four HIV/AIDS education projects that FOC funded in 2006.

We arranged for another printing of the pagnes in Cameroon and have a limited number available. Since they sold out last time, do not delay to place an advance orders. The price is $38 plus $6 shipping per piece.

Ordering information
To order the cloth, which will ship immediately, send a check for the number of pieces you would like made out to "Friends of Cameroon." Please send payment to:

FOC Pagne
13201 Stravinsky Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20904

from: bobebill@verizon.net

 

 
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