A Cooperative Feast for Sister Cities
Blog contributed by Carolyn Jabs, Co-Author, Cooperative Wisdom: Bringing People Together When Things Fall Apart. Click here to view the blog post on Medium.It was a cooperative feast. Edamame and guacamole, savory meatballs and delicate sushi rolls, deviled eggs and spicy chicken wings, olive bread and kale salad, cellophane noodles and Turkish delight.Santa Barbara has seven sister cities. And once a year the committees for those cities gather to share a meal in celebration of United Nations Day. Everyone brings a dish, and many of them represent the ...
Support Sister Cities International for #GivingTuesday on November 29!
Sister Cities International (SCI) is excited to take part in #GivingTuesday on November 29, 2016! Click hereto donate to SCI's youth programs this #GivingTuesday.What is #GivingTuesday?#GivingTuesday follows the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It kicks off the holiday giving season with a global day dedicated to charitable giving. #GivingTuesday harnesses the power of social media and the generosity of people around the world to bring about real change in their communities. Now in its 5th year, #GivingTuesday is a worldwide ...
What Was Your Most Meaningful, Life-Changing Experience?
What was your most meaningful, life-changing experience?
If you talk to those involved with Sister Cities International (SCI), they will tell you about their high school exchange with their sister city in Shizuoka, Japan, or the day they received a letter from their friends in Sunderland, UK after September 11th, or they may tell you about when they went to Zomba, Malawi to open a composting site.
When you meet people from around the world, your view of humanity changes. Your support of SCI has enabled us to spread peace and prosperity through people for the past 60 ...
2017 Inaugural Gala
In advance of Inauguration Day, join Sister Cities International at the 2017 Inaugural Gala for an exciting gathering of diplomats, members of congress, municipal officials, and community and citizen leaders in celebration of the inauguration of our Honorary Chairperson, the President of the United States. The Gala will take place at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC on January 17, 2017 from 8:00 - 11:00pm. Visit https://sistercities.org/InauguralGala for more information and to register.
Join Us for #SisterCitySunday
We’re excited to announce that the Delegation of the European Union to the United States and Sister Cities International are teaming up to highlight the importance of people-to-people relationships in global peace-building with #SisterCitySunday, an online campaign starting on October 2, 2016.Each Sunday for 28 weeks, we will share dynamic content from each EU member state, featuring a story about business, cultural, humanitarian, municipal, or educational partnerships between a U.S. and EU sister city.There are over 600 EU-U.S. partnerships in the Sister Cities Intern...
Sister City Association Brings Bergen and Norway to Seattle
Blog contributed by Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association. Click here to view the original blog post on Medium.Annual fundraiser reception celebrates "Global Connections through Word Travel" with Mayor Murray, Jean Enersen, and Rick Steves.These days in Seattle there is a lot of buzz about the upcoming 2016 Seattle Sister Cities Reception at Seattle City Hall on October 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and not in the least due to the efforts of the Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association. “With the theme ‘Global Connections through World Travel,’ Bergen naturally emerged ...
Sewing Group Changes Lives of Young Women in Africa
Click here to view the original blog post on Medium.There is a sewing group meeting every month here in Seattle and what they are making is changing the lives of young women half way around the world. Nicole Sanchez tells us how this is more than your typical sewing group and how it is keeping girls safe and in school. This is a special project of the Seattle Limbe Sister City Association & Sarah Allen Sisterhood Saturday Sewing Sisters.
Diplomatic Relations
Blog contributed by Kiwanis International. Click here to view the original blog post on Medium.Kiwanis and Sister Cities Send Six Teens on a Mission to Learn the Virtue of Global Understanding.The fate of the world rested in the hands of Lukos Stefan and other countries’ representatives at a last-hope peace conference in Washington, D.C. Like the other diplomats around him, Stefan had arrived at this meeting as a firm advocate of his nation’s agenda and his personal convictions. Nuclear war was imminent. Compromise was not an option.Not really.But that was ...
Sister Cities International Honors Robert Dole, Timothy Chorba, and Connie Morella in Celebration of 60th Anniversary at the 2016 Diplomatic Leadership Awards Reception
Washington, DC (September 6, 2016) – On Sister Cities International’s (SCI) official 60th Anniversary, September 12, 2016, the organization will honor three prolific individuals, the Honorable Robert J. Dole, former U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate, the Honorable Timothy Chorba, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, and the Honorable Connie Morella, former U.S. Congresswoman and U.S. Ambassador to OECD for their contributions on U.S.-global relations and citizen diplomacy.SCI was founded by President Dwight Eisenhower at the White House Conference on Citizen ...
Ineffable Takamatsu
Blog contributed by Vanessa B. Nguyen, 2016 Student Ambassador, St. Petersburg, Florida. Click here to view the original blog post on Medium.How do I begin this without sounding cliche? It’s the last thing I want to do, sound unextraordinary when describing my experience in Takamatsu, Japan, a well hidden, extraordinary gem. If I absolutely had to describe my experience in such a charming city with a single word, I would have to absolutely say “ineffable.” Ironic, isn’t it?It was a short 10 days in Takamatsu, but a couple of minutes was all it took for me to fall ...