Changing Lives

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• Changing Lives
• One individual, one community at a time.

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• Sister Cities International Today
• 53 Years building partnerships
• Over 650 U.S. Cities/Towns/Communities
• 2,000 Sister city partnerships across the globe
• 135 Countries on 6 continents
• 100,000 Active community volunteers in the U.S.
• Tens of thousands of Citizen Diplomats abroad of
  all generations

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Reaching Out

• Across the Globe
• Europe 36
• Asia Oceania 29
• Americas 17
• Eurasia 6
• Africa 6
• Middle East 3
• Caribbean 2

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Partnerships Around the World

• Countries with the most sister city partnerships

• Japan 212
• China 179
• Mexico 145
• Germany 118
• France 99

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All shapes sizes

• Cities with the most sister cities?
• Chicago 28
• Smallest sister city?
• Gilbert, AR Population 32

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What Sister Cities International Provides You

• Global Citizen Initiative

• Sustainable Communities Initiative

• Muslim World Partnership Initiative

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What We Do

• Global Citizen Initiative

• Annual Conference
• Youth Conference
• State Meetings
• High Student Exchange
• Monthly Conference Calls

• Visa Resources
• Website
• Toolkits
• Funding for Members
• Grants
• Legislative Initiative

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What We Do

• Support for current new partnerships
• Models Report
• Country Networking
• Identifying Cities Seeking US Cities

• Muslim World Partnership Initiative

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Muslim World Partnership Initiative

• Cities Seeking Cities
• Arab Towns Organization (Middle East/North
  Africa)
• 100th Muslim Partnership
• Who will be the first?
• Libya
• Saudi Arabia
• Bahrain
• Kuwait
• Qatar

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What We Do

• Green Energy
• Community Connector
• Clean Drinking Water Program
• Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program

• Sustainable Communities Initiative

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Sustainable Communities Initiative

• NEW Program to address Urban Poverty in Africa

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Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program

• The Facts
• 7.5 million over 3 years
• Overarching Goal To address urban poverty issues
  in African cities
• 2-prong approach
• City-to-city technical assistance exchanges in
  the areas of water, sanitation and health
• Capacity building for African Global Sister
  Cities Foundation (AGSCF)

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Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program

• How will we do this?
• 25-27 Sister Cities Africa Partner Selected
• AGSCF Capacity Building Training
• Exchange Visit to Africa Needs Assessment
• Develop a project plan, budget and timeline
• Exchange Visit to U.S.
• Exchange Visit to Africa and Project
  Implementation
• Monitoring, Evaluation Reporting
• Video Documentation

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Your Staff

• EXECUTIVE
• Patrick Madden
• President CEO
• Jim Doumas
• Executive Vice President
• PROGRAMS
• Adam Kaplan
• Program Manager
• Jennelle Root
• Youth Special Programs Manager

• EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
• Emmy Estrada
• Conference Meetings Manager
• Laura Giroux
• Membership Manager
• Frances Reimers
• Communications Programs Manager
• OPERATIONS
• Mark Dreslin
• Finance Administration Director
• Ying Tran
• Finance Coordinator

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Changing Lives One individual, one community
at a time
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Sister Cities International

• Building long-term, sustainable bridges of
  cultural understanding and economic development
  worldwide.

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Global Influence