Institute for Sustainable Communities

The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) "is an independent, nonprofit organization that helps communities in existing and emerging democracies solve problems while building a better future for themselves and the world. We give communities—and the organizations that support them—the training, technical assistance, and grants they need to solve their own problems and shape their own destiny long after our work with them is finished." They go on to note that:

"Since our founding in 1991 by former Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin, we have managed 60 international projects in 17 countries with support from individual donors, private and corporate foundations, and the U.S. Government. ISC is based in Vermont, a state that values grassroots democracy and environmental stewardship. We have international offices in Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine." [1]

"In October 2006, the Advocacy Institute merged with the Institute for Sustainable Communities to form the Advocacy Center at ISC." [2]

For full details of funding.

Partners

Examples include:

• Abt Associates, Inc. (U.S.)
• American Chamber of Commerce
• American Embassy in Skopje (OPDAT programme)
• Biodiversity Conservation Center (Russia)
• Center for Environmental Training and Information (Russia)
• Center for Russian Environmental Policy
• CHF International
• East-West Management Institute (U.S.)
• Eurasia Foundaton (Russia)
• Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia (Macedonia)
• Freedom House Ukraine
• Global Community Initiatives (U.S.)
• Institute of International Education (U.S.)
• IREX (Russia)
• Organizaition for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Orton Family Foundation
• Vernadsky Foundation
• Winrock International
• World Learning (U.S. and Macedonia)

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Directors

• Hon. Madeleine Kunin, Founder and Chair - Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Vermont and St. Michael's College
• Kevin F. F. Quigley, Ph.D., Vice Chair - President, National Peace Corps Association
• Jerry Greenfield, Treasurer - Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's
• Hon. Harry Barnes, Jr., Secretary - Chair, Romanian-American Enterprise Fund
• Ramsey A. Ahmed - Principal & Co-Founder Maple Capital Management
• Janet C. Ballantyne, Ph.D. - Group Vice President-International, Abt Associates, Inc.
• John A. Dooley - Justice, Vermont Supreme Court
• Perez Ehrich - Principal, Mustang Market & Tech Guides
• Jonathan Lash, Esq. - President, World Resources Institute
• Dr. Joyce Malombe - Director of Education, ELMA Philanthropies
• Stephen Ramsey, Esq. - Vice President, Corporate Environmental Programs General Electric Company
• Joanna Regulska, Ph.D. - Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies Rutgers University
• Sandra Stash - Vice President - Regulatory Affairs and Compliance, BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA)
• Aaron S. Williams - Vice President, International Business Development, RTI International

• Douglas Costle, Esq., Chair Emeritus
• George E. Hamilton, Ex-officio - President, Institute for Sustainable Communities

Retreived Dec 06

In Jan 2007 Stephen Ramsey replaced Kevin F. F. Quigley.

1998 Directors

• Douglas Costle, Esq., Chair - Former United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and

Dean of Vermont Law School

• Peter Clavelle, Vice Chair - Mayor of Burlington, Vermont
• Sarah Muyskens, Treasurer - Independent Management Consultant Specializing in Nonprofit Organizations
• Harry Barnes, Jr. - Director, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Programs, Carter Center
• Ella Cisneros - President and Founder, Together Foundation for Global Unity
• Terry Ehrich - Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Hemmings Motor News
• Jonathan Lash - President, World Resources Institute
• Stephen Ramsey - Vice President for Corporate Environmental Programs, General Electric Co.
• Joanna Regulska - Director of the Center for Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies and

Associate Professor of Geography, Rutgers University

• Stanislaw Sitnicki - Country Director, Poland, Environmental Action Programme Support Project
• Judit Vasarhelyi - Executive Director, Independent Ecological Center, Budapest
• Gregory Watson - Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

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Contact

Web: http://www.iscvt.org

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Teresa Crawford, Director of the Advocacy and Leadership Center