Posner Center for International Development

“The posner center's board of directors and officers were involved in the review and approval of the posner center's 990.”

“The posner center drafted and approved a conflict of interest policy in january 2014. Under the policy, conflicts are to be disclosed immediately upon discovery, and an annual verification is undertaken each year to confirm that no director or officer is aware of any conflicts. The conflict of interest policy will be reviewed and reaffirmed by the board at the end of each year.”

“Compensation for the executive director and other posner center staff was reviewed and approved by the board of directors and took into account review by independent parties and comparison data of salaries for like positions.”

“Compensation for the executive director and other posner center staff was reviewed and approved by the board of directors and took into account review by independent parties and comparison data of salaries for like positions.”

“The posner center posts its governing documents, form 1023 and its 990s on its website. 990s and other filings with the irs will also be available on independent websites such as www.guidestar.org.”

“The organization's three core strategies to advance its vision and mission are to: 1. Convene the global and local develoment community, working at home and abroad, creating an inclusive, diverse, and innovative collaborative culture. 2. Connect its community to share expertise and knowledge, increase organizational capacity, and promote efforts and successes. 3. Catalyze its community through its thought leadership, programming, and advancing best practices in collaboration. Development organizations face similar challenges in their work to create change worldwide. They also face similar challenges when it comes to office space. Small budgets, competition for limited resources, a lack of connection, and feeling isolated from international teams are among some of the biggest challenges for development professionals, especially in colorado. Posner center was created with the belief that sharing and collaboration can address these challenges and transform the way development work is done. Accomplishments: collaborative workspace. Since 2013 the posner center building has served as a physical collaborative workspace for 50-70 organizations. Tenants share space, each occupying their own footprint in the building and sharing meeting rooms of all sizes and access to other office necessities. The building has been essential to establishing a resilient and engaged community of global and local development professionals. The result is a robust network that supports each other's work and fosters meaningful and effective collaborations. Virtual community. While the collaborative workspace provides a physical home for the colorado global and local development community, the posner center is much bigger than the building. This had proven especially true in 2020 when the covid-19 pandemic forced all of us into remote working situations and virtual relationships. The organization successfully brought together its greater virtual community of global and local development professionals in colorado, including nonprofit organizations, large and small, private enterprises, university departments, consultants, service providers, and others concerned about global and local issues. Even in the pandemic, both the building tenants of posner center's larger virtual community had access to the building and the programming to support their work. Decolonizing development. In 2020 the organization began a new and ambitious commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (jedi) issues, both internally and externally. The organization reviewed its policies, practices, and programming through this new jedi lens and set a path for improving its performance in these areas. In 2021 the posner center is continued this long-term commitment to jedi issues with a specific focus on advancing decolonizing development work. This area of work with posner center's community and stakeholders will give organizations and individuals the tools to identify, acknowledge, and repair ongoing harm caused by colonialism in global impact work and shift thinking from people as objects of development to subjects and leaders of change. Our goal is for our community to take concrete, anti-racist actions in their development work, diversify the global development field, and have a more equitable impact that begins to repair past injustices. Posner center symposium 2021. The inaugural posner center symposium was held in early 2019, convening global development leaders, practitioners, researchers, academics, and supporters to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned to improve global development work and contribute to the evidence base of best practices in collaborative global development. The success of the first symposium reflected the enthusiasm and innovation of the posner center community and the rigor of its knowledge and expertise. For the second posner center symposium in february 2020, an even larger community of leaders, practitioners, and academics was convened”