Community Dispute Settlement Center presents:
Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict
Friday March 1 & Friday April 5, 2013
Facilitated by Donna Hicks, PhD
Author and recipient of CDSC Peacemaker Award
Read more: Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict
We are pleased to share the CDSC 2012 Annual Report with a years' worth of pictures and asking for your continued commitment to CDSC.
Click here to view the CDSC 2012 Annual Report.
We are proud to report that our favorite theme, Be All In, is clearly reflected in our accomplishments:
- BE focused on our mission to provide affordable mediation services and training.
- Make ALL of our efforts inclusive and collaborative.
- Celebrate the many ways volunteers participate IN our work.
As we look ahead to the new year, here are some of the issues we want to address:
- How do we influence more people to choose mediation at earlier stages of conflict?
- How do we educate more mediators to understand the impact of culture on resolving conflict?
- How do we deliver conflict management skills to more organizations and agencies?
Your support matters in helping CDSC provide affordable and accessible mediation and training services to the community. We invite you to join our efforts by making a generous year-end gift.
Be All In!
Click here to make your gift to CDSC.
The Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund
For more than two decades, Mimi Grosser has been an invaluable player in the CDSC lineup and a real role model for at least two generations of CDSC volunteer mediators, interns and Board members.
In Mimi’s honor and in recognition of the extraordinary service of CDSC’s volunteers, we created a permanent fund in Mimi’s name in 2013 that honors exceptional CDSC volunteers and provides scholarship support for deserving participants in CDSC training and professional development programs.
The first winners of the Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund Award were Judy Abrams and Harry Manasewich. Melissa Brodrick and Steve Lilly-Weber are the founding co-chairs of the Mimi Fund.
2013 Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund Award: Harry Manasewich & Judy Abrams
2014 Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund Award: Roberta Kosberg & Jo-Ann Leinwand
2015 Mimi Grosser Scholarship Fund Award: Steve Morr-Wineman & Janice Durham
2016 Mimi Grosser Scholarship Awards: Ruven Liebhaber and Ellen Sullivan
Click here to make a gift to the Mimi Fund. All proceeds of the Mimi Fund are used to provide scholarship support for deserving CDSC training participants.
In Memoriam: Helen Ladd
1924-2012
Our mediation community has just lost an extraordinary person with the passing of Helen Ladd, a shining star to so many of us. Helen was an outstanding mediator, combining her compassionate understanding with her social worker sensitivity. Helen was affiliated with the Community Dispute Settlement Center for the past 20 years. She enthusiastically and generously supported CDSC as a mediator, board member and most recently a member of the advisory board. In 2004, she received one of our first Community Peacemaker Awards.
To read more about her amazing life's journey and the ceremonies
arranged to celebrate her, click here.
If you are interested in attending the gathering in Cambridge on Saturday, November 24th, please contact CDSC for RSVP information.
Click here to make a donation to CDSC in Helen's memory.
The demand for CDSC's mediation services and training is higher than ever, we hope you will consider supporting the 2022 CDSC Bash with a generous gift.
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