POSNER CENTER OVERVIEW

POSNER CENTER OVERVIEW

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Mission To build a community of innovators who grow lasting solutions to global poverty Vision To be the epicenter of global community empowerment

Values Collaboration Impact Sharing Entrepreneurship Diversity Creativity

Horse Barn History 1872: Horse Barn constructed Early 1900s: Turner Moving & Storage Mid 1900s: Building vacated 2010: ide approves plan to form collaborative of international orgs. 2011: Growth of partnership 2012: Design, funding & construction 2013: Building opening in June 2014: 100% occupancy

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Building Benefits Reducing Costs & Saving Time Space Rentals: reduced cost structure for event/meeting space. Services: mailbox, copying, internet, etc. Exposure: name, link, logo, info on web and on building signage. Trainings: low-cost professional development. Connections: access to internal Google Group and posting on website/listserv. Community: participation on building committees

Over 50 Tenants And Counting under one-year leases access.mobile Adelante Foundation Africa Agenda Africa Development Promise AfricAid Art Exiled Blue Dot Advocates Bridges to Prosperity Catapult Design Children s Future International Chinook Fund Community Solutions Initiative Comunidades Unidas Peru Critical Energy Initiative Edge of Seven Elephant Energy E.M.P. Images Engineers Without Borders USA Friends of ENCA Farm Getches-Wilkinson Center Global Accelerator Network Global Health Connections Global Health Foundation Global Livingston Institute Harkey International Consulting HeathKind Hope Shines ide Into Your Hands-Africa Kaffa House Coffee Company Konektid International Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking Meet the Middle East National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) Nokero One Acre Fund Peace Corps The Recreation Project RENEW Strategies Restoration Project International Rights Consulting & Investigations Rural Community Assistance Corporation SalusWorld S.O.U.L. Foundation Spencer Associates, Inc Technology Partnership Ten Thousand Villages Threads Worldwide Unreasonable Institute World Affairs Challenge World Child Cancer USA Women s Work

An Additional 50+ Members using space & participating in events and trainings Africa School Assistance Project Ashmore Consulting Beautiful World Britt Tonnessen Building Bridges BusinessWorks CauseLabs Centre for Rural Development Colorado School of Mines Corporate Traveler Courtney Perez Cross-Pollinate Consulting Solutions Discover France Embolden Alliances Engage 8 Environmental Defense Fund Gilchrist and Company Global Development Analytics Global Education Fund Global Greengrants Fund Global Youth Voices GRID Alternatives Healthcare Business Institute Heart of the West Counseling / Two Lilies Fund Hispanic Scholarship Fund Land & Sea Co. MEDA Colorado Chapter Natalie Breazeale Northrise University Initiative Orbis Institute Outreach Uganda Paolo Ruiz Relay Services / WhiteSpace Alliance Resilient Futures International Richard Solosky Seeds of South Sudan Shadhika Total Speed United Nations Association (UNA) Denver Chapter University of Colorado - Boulder, Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities University of Colorado - Denver University of Colorado - Denver, Institute for International Business University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies Walking Tree Travel Water for People Winrock International WorldDenver

Entry Points Addressing poverty from every angle Agriculture & Food Security Children Climate & Environment Disaster Relief & Humanitarian Aid Education & Schools Energy Engineering Entrepreneurship & Business Development Gender Equality Governance & Institution-Building Health Human Trafficking Peace and Justice Policy and Research Refugees & Asylees Technology & Innovation Water & Sanitation Women & Girls

½ Seat Edge of Seven Edge of Seven fuses travel with service, sparking opportunities for personal and global development. We engage passionate volunteers in our mission to create access to education, economic, and health opportunities for girls and women in the developing world. We offer volunteers the unique chance to go beyond their comfort zones and work closely with people who possess different histories and perspectives on our world. We empower girls and women by supporting initiatives that are locally-driven, community-focused and sustainable.

Office access.mobile access.mobile (AM) is a mobile technology business based in Denver, Colorado with a local presence in Uganda and Rwanda. We offer high-quality mobile solutions customized to address a wide range of enterprise and social needs in East Africa and beyond. Our solutions are comprehensive, improving data flow and communication, operational insight and efficiency. Our technologies and services enable organizations to be more effective in achieving their objectives and allow them to engage more deeply with their networks.

Large Office Bridges to Prosperity Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) envisions a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Our community-driven projects provide basic access to healthcare, education and improved livelihoods via footbridge construction. We build to educate by teaching design and construction both locally and globally. We build to innovate through developing and openly sharing solutions that are safe, replicable, and locally viable. And we build to inspire, by providing opportunities for leadership development and personal growth through international collaboration.

Anchor ide More than 70 percent of the world s poorest people are small scale farmers. For many of them, access to irrigation water provides a substantial productivity gain and increase in food production. ide views productive water as the entry point to creating income opportunities for these 900 million people. We identify locations where improved access to water can have a positive impact, and then offer affordable technologies for lifting, storing, and distributing that water. ide also looks for ways to reduce on-farm costs and increase margins available from market access and post-harvest activities.

Member Global Greengrants Fund Global Greengrants Fund seeds environmental action through small grants. We support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for justice, primarily in the developing world and emerging economies. Our belief is that everyone deserves a healthy environment. Our strategy is to support local leaders primarily outside the United States and Western Europe in fighting these injustices. Through activist-led grantmaking, we find these leaders and provide seed funding for grassroots action on the front lines of social change. Together, we re working towards one vision: A just and sustainable world.

Collaboration Tenant Elephant Energy Sources interns from tenant Getches-Wilkinson Center; Places product orders and shares staff with tenant PowerMundo; Purchases solar products for re-sale in Africa from tenant Nokero; Obtains business advice, drafts joint grant proposals and works on joint projects in Africa with anchor tenant ide; Obtains legal advice from tenant Blue Dot Advocates; Strategizes about energy access and entrepreneurship on the Navajo Nation with tenant Catapult Design; and Works with engineers supported by anchor tenant EWB- USA to refurbish solar heaters on the Navajo Nation.

Impact Monitoring & Evaluation Impact Assessment: annual assessments of the collective impact of our tenants and members are in progress. Surveying: regular surveying of tenant and member needs. Trainings: instruction offered to assist organizations with monitoring and evaluation.

Sharing Monthly Programming 101s Block Party Lunches Community Nights Meet-Ups Peer Learning Roundtables Tours Town Halls Workshops Check out our Calendar at: www.posnercenter.org/events

Entrepreneurship Social Venture Support Trainings: instruction offered for establishing social ventures and generating earned income. Tenants: aggressive recruiting of social ventures, including for-profit entities, as tenant and members. Funding: establishment of funding mechanisms to support entrepreneurial efforts of tenants and members. Leading by doing: running a building with core operations funded entirely with earned income from office and event rental.

Diversity Prioritizing Inclusiveness Community Outreach: engaging the Curtis Park community via events and community nights. Tenants and Members: aggressive recruiting of organizations catering to the needs of refugee and immigrant populations in Colorado. Trainings: professional development opportunities in cross-cultural communication and engagement. Policies: establishment of board-level policies regarding inclusion and diversity and offering these as a model for our tenants and members.

Creativity Incentivizing Innovation Partners: establishing relationships with innovation leaders in government and business. Funding: developing funding mechanisms to support innovative projects. Trainings: professional development opportunities in storytelling and rapid prototyping.

Posner Center Needs Global Classroom Help us build a Global Classroom with video conferencing and recording capabilities that allows students, professionals and partners around the world to collaborate with the 100+ organizations based at the Posner Center. From interns to CEOs and elementary-schoolers to post-graduates, Global Classroom users will share ideas, debate issues and develop innovative solutions to some of humanity s biggest problems.

Posner Center Needs International Collaboration Fund Help us build an International Collaboration Fund to support innovative and impactful partnerships between our tenants and members. To sow the seeds of collaboration, the Posner Center will offer grants to organizations that propose partnerships between two or more of our tenants and members. Individuals, foundations and corporations that have an interest or operations in a specific country or sector will fund these grants, allowing opportunities for further collaboration between donors and recipients.

Posner Center Needs Staff & Facilities Help us invest in new staff and facilities to ensure that the Posner Center can meet the needs of more organizations and expand beyond Colorado. Our organization is growing quickly, and we need to invest now in the staff and facilities we need to increase our impact. Staff assistance with impact assessment and outreach to educational institutions are key priorities, as are investments in overflow office space and IT equipment.

Posner Center Needs Innovative Programming Help us develop innovative programming to allow our tenants and members to reach their full potential. Posner programming ranges from board development trainings to community nights to lunchtime Block Parties to share stories of our tenants successes and lessons learned. These opportunities expand and refine our tenants skills so that they can have a greater impact through their projects around the world.

Support Us Contact doug@posnercenter.org Online Donations: visit www.posnercenter.org Check: mail to 1031 33 rd Street, Denver, CO 80205 Corporate Donations: contact us about engaging your business in our work In-Kind Donations: AV & IT equipment Event Sponsorship: support monthly programs Room Naming: put your stamp on a room in our building

Doug Vilsack Executive Director doug@posnercenter.org Brandi Stanley Community Animator brandi@posnercenter.org Jess Harig Member Coordinator members@posnercenter.org THANK YOU PLEASE CONTACT US WITH QUESTIONS Posner Center for Int. Development 1031 33 rd Street, Suite 140 Denver, CO 80205 (720)-515-8118