Fw: Support Ukraine Project/Peggy/Opps

[Peggy Holman, Open Space Institute]

Just thought I'd pass this on if anyone is interested.

-----Original Message-----
From: HBob372917 <HBob372917 at aol.com>
To: osi at tmn.com <osi at tmn.com>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 8:04 AM
Subject: Support Ukraine Project/Peggy/Opps


>Dear Peggy:
>
>
>The Excellence in Missouri Foundation in collaboration with the Institute
of
>Public Administration and Regional Development and a team of European and
>American consultants has developed a Employee Involvement and Quality
>Improvement project for the Ukraine businesses, government and
nongovernmental
>organizations.
>
>A project proposal  can  be found at  <a href = "http://www.
>geocities.com/Eureka/Park/7566/ukraine.html"> www.
>geocities.com/Eureka/Park/7566/ukraine.html <a/>This proposal presents
project
>rationale, description, implementation process, budget, participant bios
and a
>budget. It also includes support material.
>
>The project will enable six to ten selected Ukrainian organizations to
acquire
>and effectively use methodologies which will enable them to dramatically
>improve the quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee
>relations of their respective organizations within an 18 month time period.
>The project methodologies and design both models and produces highly
>participative (democratic) decision making, planning, and design of work
>processes which are the key factors in becoming high performance, high
>quality, flexible organizations.
>
>The successful completion of the project will create six organizations
which
>will become benchmarks for other Ukrainian enterprises to learn from and
will
>develop a Ukrainian team of practitioner consultants fully capable of
>initiating and carrying out the same transformation process with single
>organizations or sets of organizations.
>
>The Excellence in Missouri Foundation was established in 1992 to administer
>the Missouri Quality Award program and to promote quality principles in
>business, education, government and health care. It is a
>501 (c)(3) not-for-profit education organization funded entirely by
>contributions from the private sector and income generating activities.
>
>The mission of the Foundation is to:
>
> * provide education services that offer individuals and organizations an
>understanding of how to improve customer satisfaction, performance, and
>quality;
>* recognize individuals, teams, and organizations that excellence in
quality
>leadership; and
>* administer the Missouri Quality Award, the Missouri Team Quality Award,
>and the Governor's Quality Leadership Award.
>
>Institute of Public Administration and Regional Development (SPARED) was
>created in June, 1997 as research and service structure of Uzhhorod State
>University. It inherited the best traditions, experience, material and
>intellectual resources of Center for Public Administration Reform and
>Assistance which was functioning during 1994-1997 in partnership with
Vinson
>Institute of Government, University of Georgia, USA.
>
>The issues of implementing modern management methods in governments,
>businesses, NGOs is among IPARD' priorities. Institutes staff have
conducted
>several workshops, seminars, organized 3 conferences dealing with the
subject
>of management practice improvement in governments and NGOs of
Transcarpathian
>region, Ukraine. The institute has published 16 training material books,
some
>of them were dealing with the subject of  Management in Government
>Organizations, Modern Techniques of Human Resource Management, Local
Economic
>Development, Policy Analysis and Decision Making. Institute professors have
>implemented 4 practically oriented technical projects focusing on more
>efficient interaction between businesses, governments, NGOs in dealing with
>common issues. The most recent project (November, 1997 - February, 1998)
>funded by a USAID-IREX grant is a project titled:"Training of the Public
>Officials and Deputies of the Local Governments in the Mountainous
Regions."
>
>The Excellence in Missouri Foundation perceive the project as within its
>mission scope and as an opportunity to support economic development and
>quality within a nation in need of this knowledge. The Excellence in
Missouri
>Foundation also perceive the project as potentially enhancing commerce
between
>the state of Missouri and Ukraine. Finally, we perceive it as just the
right
>thing to do, reflecting the tradition of the Marshall Plan.
>
>I am requesting your support in finding funding for this project. I would
>appreciate any contacts you might suggest. We would also welcome your
support.
>
>Thank you for your consideration. If you have any questions, please contact
>us. We look forward to hearing from you.
>
>Warmest regards,
>
>
>Bob Holder
>
>
>