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Program analysis, evaluation and development ~·<Writing: analyses and programs

General management and administration

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\ Areas of Experience ~·( 1c ~·( • . -{: ·l: National and international government agencies Community developme nt, urban and rural Youth involvement in contemporary problims International relations and law Latin America WO~K EX PER I ENCE 1967present I' . I PRESIDENT, Project Earning Power, a national, non-profit corporation with headquarters in Washington. The Corporation's first president and officer. Responsibility for planning and administering a national program to assist severely handicapped workers in sheltered workshops to. raise their earnings. The job involves:

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19671966 and administering government contracts and grants. Directing, evaluating and supporting national orgunization with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Coordinating and dire~ting professional · (designers, businessmen, etc.) volunteers, consultants, national organizations such as the Women's Committee of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, the National Association of Sheltered Worksh1ops, the Industrial Design Society of America. Total reorganization of all phases of the Corporation, stressing establishment of clear goals and clear lines of authority, and stream! ined organization. ADMINISTRATOR, Mid-Atlantic Region, VISTA, Hashington, D.C. The "domestic peace corps", a program of volunteers working in the war on poverty. Responsible for establ fshing and directing the Mid-Atlantic office when VISTA was first regional ized.

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and supervised staff of 28, regarded as best region a l staff . administered, evaluated and supervtsed Qrograms and t ra ining involving 750 volunteers in seven states ~nd the District of Columbia. �,_ ,, ....... ,.·.•. ·k

19661964 Coordinate d pro91 '-'"'.:, 1·J1 th OEO offices, state and loc a l agencies, and proj ect·s pon s or s . Progr ams were pr edom in antly in urb a n a nd rural community deve lopment and mental heal th ; stressed institution building in · progr amm ing, i.e., assigning volunteers to instltution ~which would th ereby be aided most in becoming self-sufficient. DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Peace Corp s / Per u, in Lima , Peru. Volunteers work in development pro grams in: urban and ru ra l community develop me nt; coops, and sma ll indu st ry deve lopment ; education.

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Sha red re spo ns ibility with Director for pl an ning and administering progr ams for ov e r· LfOO volunteers. Coordina t ed and wo rked with participating Peruvian agencies and U.S. Overseas Mission officials. Sh a red responsibility with Director for sev en region a l offices and ten associate dir ec tors, plus three Peruvian technical advisors. Emphasi zed: building self-sufficient Peruvian institutions; establishi.ng clear program priorities r e flecting Per uvian needs; matching volunt ee rs with ap propr i ate jobs; maintaining open communications with volunteers and staff. I / EVALUATOR, Pea ce Corps/Washington . Ev a luation Division reviewed for Dir ~c to r all aspects of Pe ace Corps, including sel e ction and training of V,olunteers, program p1l a nning and operation overseas.

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19621960 written reports for Peace Corps Director and Division \ Heads on all aspects of Peace Corps country programs; a nd \ reports on all aspects of Peace Corps training progr ams. , ~isited and studied intensive ly Pea ce Corps progr ams in countries , in Latin America, and 3 countries in East Asia and Africa, \ interviewing Peace Corps, AID, Embassy and ho s t national 1officials and Peace Corps volunte e rs. · · S~ressed: compa rison of stated program go a ls with actual perl f ormance; aptness of program goals; matching volunt eer s with

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I Comm i t tee on \/or I d Peace Through Law of the I ! / ) . / Ameri~an Bar Associ ~t ion, Washington, b . C. Committee was en gaged in ; preparing · and direc~ing four regional international conferences to promote deve lopment! of international law. /

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draft ~onference wor king papers on problems a~d potentia~ · internati on al law; special committee reports; confereace / agendas and budgets; correspondence for participating lawyers here and abr oad . Responsible for advance preparation on site and administration of conferences in Costa Rica, Nigeria, lt_aly and Japan with local public and private officials. of

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