December 15, 2016
Tuten Provides Training at Slovakian Conference
Dr. Tracy Tuten
Dr. Tracy Tuten, Professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, served as marketing faculty for the NGO Leadership Conference, which took place in early December in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The conference is an initiative established by The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) to strengthen civil society in new democracies by providing leadership training to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In partnership with the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and the Pontis Foundation, the NGO Leadership Conference provided training at no cost to leaders from NGOs in select countries where authoritarian regimes have collapsed. As recent events in Ukraine, Russia, or Tunisia have shown, there is an urgent need to strengthen civil society organizations so that they can advance positive social and political change. Participants came from Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.
The goal of the NGO Leadership Conference is to make civil society organizations more effective and durable. NGO leaders gain managerial capacity and the tools and skills that will help them to successfully engage with the general public, government stakeholders, and international partners. The program included sessions on vision and strategy, financial management, resource mobilization, and marketing proposal.