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Alii Bradshaw — THE BATTALION
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps, a non profit organization, extensively
covered international aid and leadership during the event Tuesday.
Message to nonprofits: ‘No
fast fixes or shiny solutions’
By Spencer Davis
Professors and students were given a
look behind the scenes on how non
profit organizations function in international
aid Tuesday night.
The Mosbacher Institute hosted a discus
sion on global humanitarian crises led by
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps.
Keny-Guyer has managed the organization
since 1994 and oversees their annual dis
bursement of $375 million in aid.
“He brought Mercy Corps to be known
in the international NGO world as the first
to the worst with the most,” said Ryan
Crocker, dean of the Bush School of Gov
ernment and Public Service, who intro
duced Keny-Guyer.
Keny-Guyer lectured an audience of aid
workers and students on effective means of
international aid provided by non-profit or
ganizations. Combining historical anecdotes
and personal stories to identify solutions for
global problems that are often irregular. His
main message focused on a strategy of com
munity-driven, market-led development
that finds sustainable solutions.
“How do you not only alleviate immedi
ate suffering ... but do it in a way that they’re
stronger when the next shock, the next crisis
hits and they are better able with their own
resilience, with their own internal fortitude,
with their own strength to respond to those
challenges?” Keny-Guyer said.
He said he challenged them not to try
to find one big, fundamental answer to this
question, but to take an individual approach
to development.
“There has been an unprecedented con
fluence of complex crises that we have faced
in the last 18 months,” Keny-Guyer said.
“There are no fast fixes or shiny solutions to
complex challenges.”
Ciisis management, Keny-Guyer said,
can be met with obstacles. Keny-Guyer
identified bad governance and armed con
flict as two issues to development in poor
countries — problems well known to Mercy
Corps, which operates in over 40 underde
veloped nations.
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Activist leader Urvashi Vaid leads
a seminar focused on the cultural
obstacles that the LGBT community
will have to overcome after its
members are granted marriage
equality.
Marriage equality not
the end, lecturer says
By Sarah Medrano
The message from Urvashi Vaid, activ-
^ ist and leader in the LGBT communi
ty, to Tuesday’s crowd in Rudder Theatre
was clear — LGBT movements are at a
turning point, but there is still more to be
done.
The Women’s and Gender Studies
program welcomed Vaid to campus to host
a seminar titled, “Beyond the Wedding
Ring: Is There a Future for the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Move
ment?”
Vaid’s presentation explored the ad
vancements of marriage equality and the
establishment of its critical predecessors.
Her talk focused on three main conversa
tions occurring within the LGBT commu
nity, covering current legal and legislative
progression and the issues that follow.
“The dominoes seem to be toppling after
the Supreme Court Windsor decision,” Vaid
said. “Every day brings some news. How
ever, there is an existing fallacy among sup
porters and opponents that marriage is the
turning point at which all other rights will
be simply be undeniable if not fully realized.
It is much more than that.”
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