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We would like to extend our warmest thanks and appreciation to you, our dear Sponsors and Donors! Your kind support encourages us immensely and we hope that, through your help, we can significantly contribute to making a difference in this world. Many of you are both Advisory Board Member, Core Team Members, as well as Sponsors. We thank you for your wonderful multilayered support!
If others wish to make a contribution:
For the US, all contributions to Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies are soon tax deductible as allowable by law.
If you wish to make a contribution, we would be very grateful if you could send it to:
HumanDHS
5 Rock Street
Framingham, MA 01702
USA
Checks can be made out to "HumanDHS".
The tax-free number for our "DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION" is "02-076-0075."
Please read more here.
Most thankfully,
Evelin Lindner
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RAGNHILD NILSEN GRØDAL Ragnhild Nilsen Grødal holds a M.A. in Music and has studied Psychology, Pedagogy, and Dance. She combines at least three careers. She is reckoned as one of Norway's most skilled course holders and lecturers and is a sought-after educationist, communications artist and development consultant. In addition, Ragnhild N. Grødal has served on the Board of Strømme Stiftelsen and has developed humanitarian projects worldwide, from East-Timor to Africa and South-America. Furthermore, Ragnhild N. Grødal is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, that are sold worldwide. As a writer, she works within the genre of "faction" and intertwines academic knowledge with poetic approaches, combining her insights into academic research with her gift to communicate with humor. [read more] |
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ALAN B. SLIFKA Alan B. Slifka is a New York investment manager and philanthropist who is the Managing Principal of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company LLC, an asset management firm specializing in corporate event investing. It currently manages fifteen investment entities consisting of in excess over one billion in equity capital. Prior to this, he was a partner of L.F. Rothschild & Co., Inc. Long active in business, civic and philanthropic affairs, Alan Slifka serves on several corporate boards including The Pall Corporation. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of GTS (Global TeleSystems Group, Inc.), who provides advanced telecommunication services to businesses in the emerging markets of Eurasia. He is founding Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of the Big Apple Circus, a Director of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Congress. He is Chairman of The Abraham Fund, which he co-founded in 1989 as the first and only public foundation whose sole purpose is to further coexistence between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens through support of programs and projects in Israel, as well as Chairman of the Alan Slifka Foundation. It is his belief that legitimization and enhancement of coexistence and coexistence programs between majority and minority, whether ethnic, tribal or religious, is currently the most essential yet under-supported need in the world. Alan B. Slifka wrote the foreword in Weiner, Eugene (Ed.) (1998). The Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence. New York: Abraham Fund Publication. Please see the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF. |
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JOHN STEINER John Steiner, Networker, Spiritual Activist, and Philanthropist, brings together people, ideas, projects and funding around common cause. He has been a Founding Member and Leader of the Threshold Foundation, a national association of people with earned and inherited wealth who have come together to pool their money to support social and transformational change activities. He is a Founding Member of the Social Venture Network, a national affiliation of socially responsible entrepreneurs, investors, and social entrepreneurs whose mission is to develop a triple bottom line that recognizes the importance of healthy profits, healthy people, and a healthy planet. He has served as a Principal, Consultant, and Board Member of a number of national and international organizations dedicated to issues of collaborative governance, international peace making, and economic and social development. He is Founder and Director of GEMS, Green Economic Movement Strategies, which employs entrepreneurial skills to intervene in the market place on behalf of a more ecologically sustainable economy. He is the Founder and Director of Creative Philanthropy Associates. [read more] |
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LINDA M. HARTLING Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, a model of psychological growth and development. She coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory. [read more] |
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DONALD C. KLEIN Don C. Klein is a Psychologist and Behavioral Scientist. After earning a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, he was CEO of an experimental community mental health center, directed a multi-disciplinary graduate center at Boston University, served as NTL Program Director for Community Affairs, and helped to develop and became coordinator of the Applied Behavioral Science graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University. Today, he is full-time Core Faculty member of the Graduate College of The Union Institute & University, which offers an innovative non-residential doctoral program for working adults. Don Klein has been one of the first to explicitly examine and write on the humiliation phenomena. His first publication on humiliation goes back to 1991 (Journal of Primary Prevention on the Humiliation Dynamic, Vol 12, No. 2, Winter, 1991; Vol 12, No. 3, Spring 1992). [read more] |
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