Jan 15, 2013Thank You to Our Donors!
Year-end donations exceeded our $10,000 matching challenge, raising $20,167, a record amount for our annual giving.
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Dec 11, 2012Dine Out for SD at Lebanese Taverna on Dec. 11th
On Tuesday, December 11, 20% of sales at Lebanese Taverna's Woodley Park (DC) location will go toward Sustained Dialogue!
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Oct 21, 2012Mexico's Largest Private University Engages in SD
130 students and administrators at Mexico’s University Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec) dove into Sustained Dialogue in mid-October. Led by Amy...
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Aug 15, 2012SDCN Releases Impact Assessment for 2011-2012
Want to get caught up with the great work that students and alumni are doing as a part of the network?
First of its kind from SDCN, this short report includes highlights from our
campuses, nonprofit partners, and more. Learn more about our...
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Jan 30, 2012IISD Trains 30 SD Corps Members in D.C.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD) held a 3-day capacity-building workshop for professionals across sectors. Participants engaged with key Sustained Dialogue ™ concepts and experienced the power of dialogue, leaving the weekend with...
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Dec 19, 2011First International Sustained Dialogue College Summit Held in Addis Ababa
The Addis Ababa University Peace Club in collaboration with the Life & Peace Institute organized a 3-day Sustained Dialogue Summit from the 16th to the 18th of December 2011. Teams from Sudan, USA, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia attended the summit to share experiences. The theme of the summit was...
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Oct 19, 2011Seventy DC Residents Dialogue Across Generations at Trust Factor Event.
The Trust Factor, a partnership initiative of several DC nonprofits, universities, and businesses hosted a series of events this past week in DC that aimed to demonstrate how people from diverse backgrounds have built trust.
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Sep 2, 2011SD Student Leaders Gather in DC for Leadership Retreat
Student leaders from twelve schools convened in August in Washington, DC for SDCN's 2011 Student Leadership Retreat. Bursting with enthusiasm for the mission of "engaging differences as strengths," the students developed strategies to make change on their campuses.
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Jun 22, 2011Professionals and SD Alumni Attend SDCN Facilitator Training in June
In June, twenty professionals and SD alumni attended an SDCN 3-day facilitation training. Participants honed dialogue facilitation skills, and acquired the tools to be compassionate leaders capable of making informed decisions in their individual fields.
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May 1, 2011SDCN to Hold Open Training for Alumni June 24-26th
Register for the SDCN Facilitator Training Workshop in June!
Interested in becoming part of our team of paid SDCN trainers or furthering the mission of SDCN in other contexts? SDCN is providing alumni and interested professionals the opportunity to become trained facilitators for our Fall...
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Apr 27, 2011SDCN Welcomes Montana State University to the Network
Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana joined the network with a moderator workshop and training. The moderator training was a huge success, totaling 55 participants for the Friday workshop, and 50 for the Saturday training.
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Feb 4, 2011First Community College Joins SDCN
In early January, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) launched as the first community college SD chapter.
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Feb 4, 2011SDCN Coming to a City Near You
SDCN will travel across the country attending conferences and conducting trainings in the coming months. We would love to invite you to a workshop or meet up in your area.
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Dec 21, 2010Award Ceremony Held for Characters Unite
Washington, D.C. At a ceremony held on December 17 in Washington, D.C., Amy Lazarus received a $5,000 “ Characters
Unite Award ” grant at a gathering of family, friends, SDCN supporters, and representatives from Comcast and NBC Universal, the sponsors of the award. Lazarus was...
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Nov 29, 2010Amy Lazarus Receives Characters Unite Award
Washington, D.C. Amy Lazarus, Executive Director of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN), has been chosen as a recipient of USA Network’s “ Characters Unite Award ”, which recognizes extraordinary individuals who have made significant efforts to fight prejudice and...
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Nov 17, 2010SDCN Announces New Strategic Plan
At the Board meeting of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue held October 30, SDCN staff and Advisory Board members presented the key aspects of the organization’s recently completed Strategic Plan. It was through this process, which began in early 2010 and engaged staff,...
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Nov 15, 2010State Department’s Young Leaders Dialogue with America
Sustained Dialogue grew out of Hal Saunders' experiences as Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger. Last week, SDCN had the opportunity to return to our State Departments roots. Amy Lazarus, SDCN Executive Director, attended the State Department’s Young Leaders Dialogue with...
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Aug 30, 2010SDCN Delivers Workshop for 60 at University of Alabama
On the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, thousands of people were gathered on the national mall in Washington, DC engaging in polemic debate about the future of the country. That same day, a different community was taking a different approach to creating...
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Aug 9, 2010SDCN Hosts 3rd Annual Student Leadership Retreat
The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) hosted its 3rd annual Student Leadership Retreat in Washington DC on August 6 – 8, 2010. Over 22 student leaders from 13 campuses across the country attended the event. Students attending the retreat worked with one another and the SDCN Program...
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Aug 5, 2010SDCN coming to a city near you!
As the start of the academic year approaches, SDCN is gearing up for a busy fall travel season. Read below to find out where we'll be and if we're coming to a city near you. We'd love to invite you to a workshop or dinner meeting. Contact christopher@sdcampusnetwork.org...
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Jun 14, 2010Gandhi Visits SDCN Team
On June 8th, the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network had the pleasure of having Rajmohan Gandhi, President of Initiative of Change International and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, visit the SDCN office in Washington, DC. The SDCN staff, Mr. Gandhi and his wife, and various members from...
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May 23, 2010SDCN to Hold Third Annual Student Leadership Retreat
The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) will host its 3rd annual Student Leadership Retreat in Washington DC August 6 – 8, 2010. Over two-dozen student leaders from 15 campuses with Sustained Dialogue programs across the country will attend. Students attending the retreat will work...
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Apr 9, 2010SDCN Summit Celebrates 10 Years of SD
The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) celebrated 10 years of Sustained Dialogue on campuses at its 7th Annual National Summit at Princeton University March 26-28th. The Summit was sponsored by Princeton’s Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, the Princeton Class of 1952,...
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Feb 5, 2010Susquehanna University Brings Dialogue To Campus
Seven student representatives from Susquehanna University’s
leadership team attended the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network’s (SDCN)
seventh annual national summit March 26-28 in Princeton, N.J.
Susquehanna University recently joined SDCN, a collective of students...
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Dec 11, 2009SDCN Receives $10,000 Matching Grant
SDCN is excited to announce the receipt of a $10,000 matching grant from the Foundation for Global Community. The grant is a supplement to a $50,000 anchor grant that will support SDCN’s continued growth and expansion as it works to train, mentor, and connect student leaders who...
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Dec 10, 200935 Student Moderators Trained in SD in Ethiopia
The Peace Club at Addis Ababa University, a student extra-curricular organization formed after 2005 national elections in Ethiopia, explored how to improve relations among students and to create a shared community of inclusion and peace building on campus. Rhonda Fitzgerald, current...
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Nov 9, 2009New Executive Director featured in hometown paper
SDCN's first Executive Director credits race relations in hometown as inspiration for her career. View the article: " Race relations still important for Shaker Heights High school alum ."
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Oct 2, 2009SDCN Hires First Executive Director
The International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD) announced today that on September 21, Amy Lazarus joined its team as the first Executive Director of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN), an initiative supporting Sustained Dialogue programs on 15 campuses across the country. Amy...
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Jan 30, 2009University of Georgia becomes 14th Campus to join SDCN
11 students bring Sustained Dialogue,
an extra-curricular designed to bring students to the table to discuss
and resolve tough community issues, to UGa's campus Student founders (left to right): Zaid Jilani, Marlena Lewis, Ebony Caldwell, Morgan Fleming (back), Michelle...
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Jan 30, 2009SDCN Launches New Website & Networking Site With Grant from FGC
With a grant from the Foundation for Global Community, SDCN is pleased to launch their new, updated website found at http://www.sdcampusnetwork.org/ . The Foundation for Global Community, based in Palo Alto, CA, envisions a world marked by global cooperation functioning for the benefit of...
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Sep 5, 2008SDCN Meets with Coordinator of Zimbabwean Campus Sustained Dialogue Network
Kirstin Rothrock, the coordinator of the Campus Sustained Dialogue Network, located on three Zimbabwean campuses, recently visited the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. to share her experiences with the current program directors of the American program....
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Kirstin Rothrock, the coordinator of the Campus Sustained Dialogue Network, located on three Zimbabwean campuses, recently visited the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. to share her experiences with the current program directors of the American program.... Sustained Dialogue Campus Network more