Center
for International Understanding, Inc.
Phone:
(304) 327-3425 Web site: www.ciuinc.org
Mutual Benefit and Harmony
Approved as 501(c) (3) by the Internal Revenue
Service
on
IRS EIN: 20-4473021
WV Articles of Incorporation: Approved by WV
Secretary of State, Workforce West Virginia’s Unemployment Compensation
Division, and WV Tax Department
WV
Secretary of State Approval as a Charitable Organization
Dun & Bradstreet Number: 780037011
The Center for International Understanding,
Inc. (CIU), a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan entity, engages
1. promotes peace initiatives through
educational, professional, and business exchanges and through activities that
sustain sister city relations between
2. fosters information exchange between US and
international entrepreneurs and private- public-, and NGO-sectors such as:
accounting and auditing reform; agribusiness and agricultural economics; arts
and culture; budget formulation; business development; corporate governance;
democratic institution building; democratic policing; economic restructuring;
educational reform; elections; energy and mining; environmental preservation
issues; forestry and forestry-related industries; historic and cultural
preservation; housing, public and private; infrastructure development and
maintenance; library and information services; local and regional accountable
governance, including federalism; public and private housing; print, broadcast,
and electronic media; private voluntary organization development; rule of
law; rural/public health; rule of law; social services delivery; tourism and
hospitality development and management (eco-, agri, and geo- tourism);
telecommunications; women’s leadership development; youth issues/leadership
development/advocacy.
Tax deductible contributions may be made to:
Center for International Understanding, Inc, c/o Dr. Sudhakar R. Jamkhandi,
WHAT WE
DO
CIU
Activities: The CIU achieves its goals by implementing the following
federally funded activities:
A. USAID’s Community Connections
Program: US-based programs with home stays for international entrepreneurs and
private- public-, and NGO-sector professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Ukraine.
B. Open World Leadership Development
Programs: US-based programs, with home stays, for Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian,
Azeri, and Moldovan entrepreneurs and private- public-, and NGO-sector
professionals.
C. USAID Technical assistance training
programs in the
D.
E. Sister City Relations between
Princeton, West Virginia and Yoshkar Ola, Republic of Mari El, Russia:
The CIU, in collaboration with the Office of Yoshkar Ola-Princeton Sister City
Relations sustains relations through activities such as: Student and
teacher exchanges between Mikhail Lomonosov Lyceum in Yoshkar Ola and Princeton
Senior High School; Exchanges between city governments, city hospitals, and
chambers of commerce; Micro-financing of selected CC Alumni’s businesses;
Technology hardware provided to CC Alumni; Reform of higher education;
Destination tourism and hospitality development; Small business development
(dialog between chambers of commerce); Methane gas exploration and harnessing
for domestic use and export; Collaborative grant proposal development;
Information exchange between city halls.
F. Sister State Relations between West Virginia - Komi Republic, Russia: The
CIU, in collaboration with the Office of West Virginia-Komi Sister State
Relations sustains activities such as: Komi Kids Yarn Project initiated by
CIU Tourism and Hospitality Trainer Sandra Bennett who sends yarn and
knitting/crocheting accessories gathered worldwide to Children’s Home in
Syktyvkar; Student and teacher exchange activities between Ezhwa Gymnasium and
Sissonville High School, Sissonville, West Virginia; Consulting for reform of
Komi’s higher education; Training for destination tourism and hospitality
development in Komi; Training Small business development (dialog between
chambers of commerce); Consulting for methane gas exploration and harnessing for
domestic use and export; Collaborative grant proposal development.
G. Sister city relations between
H. Visiting Professorships: Registered in 2006, Director Karen Galstyan is designing in-country activities in collaboration with the CIU. Areas of emphasis: training for NGO Development and management, public-private partnerships, small and medium enterprises development, micro-enterprise and tourism development, and visiting professorships
I. Scholarships: The CIU raises cost share
funds and scholarships for local college students to study abroad and for
international students to study at local colleges through occasional fund raiser
dinners. Tax deductible contributions to support the scholarship program are
also encouraged.
CONTACT
US
For more information about the CIU’s
activities, please call Dr. Sudhakar R. Jamkhandi, President, Center for
International Understanding Inc. at (304) 327-3425 or visit the CIU web site at www.ciuinc.org.
CIU Board
of Directors: Norris Kantor, Dottie Nelson (Chair), John
Feuchtenberger, Eugenia Handcock, Connie Saunders, Rick Saunders,
Ken Kormendy , Michele Farley (Vice Chair), Sandra
Bennett, Dave Bricker, Cliff Pannell, Doris Sue Kantor,Tammie Toler, Samantha Perry and
Ted Curtis
CIU Staff: Dr. Sudhakar R. Jamkhandi, President; Carolyn K. Jamkhandi, Vice President-Secretary; Ray Guy, Fiscal Manager-Treasurer; Logistics Coordinators: Rodger Woodrum, George Bowling
CIU
Russian Liaisons:
Sergei Zhigulev, CIU Russian Alumni Projects
Coordinator: guniaciz@kmtn.ru
Igor Popov, CIU Liaison for
Anatoly Starunov, CIU Liaison for
Svetlana Shishlova, CIU Liaison for
Slava Melin , CIU Liaison for
CIU
Caucasus Bureau (CIU CB),
Karen Galstyan, CIU CB Director: ciucbam@yahoo.com
Karen Ter-Mkrtchyan, Caucasus Economic
Development Coordinator: sebatour@freenet.am
Gagik Grigoryan, Liaison for Syunik Marz and
Armenian Educational and Cultural Exchanges Assistant Coordinator:
gagik-grigoryan@mail.ru
CIU Georgian Liaisons: Gocha
Natendaze: gochanatenadze@mail.ru
Manana
Beridze: manber7@yahoo.com
Office of Yoshkar Ola-Princeton Sister City
Relations: Galina Maslyakova, Coordinator: gmalina2001@yahoo.co.uk
Office of