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- In May 2006, Dr. Linell Fromm, TFG president, is working with returnees
from the Sudanese Diaspora in Rumbek, Sudan, teaching business, management
and planning skills, civic education practices, and proposal preparation.
The work is supported by US Aid for International Development (USAID) contract
with Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) and Agricultural Enterprise
and Market Development for Southern Sudan (AMED).
- TFG is preparing documents that support the Miami Museum of Science
and Planetarium’s capital campaign for a new museum in downtown
Miami.
- TFG is preparing a business plan for the Health Council of South
Florida, a quasi-governmental health planning agency serving Miami-Dade
and Monroe Counties.
- A+D Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles, in cooperation
with the City of Los Angeles/Redevelopment Agency (CRA/LA), has
commissioned The Fromm Group to prepare a California Cultural and
Historic Endowment (CCHE) planning grant application and to provide the
museum with strategic and fund development planning. A+D Museum
focuses on contemporary issues in architecture and design including
interior, landscape, fashion and product design.
- Dr. Fromm is working with schools and higher education programs in
South Florida, helping them to obtain grant awards for new programs,
make enhancements to curricula, fulfill equipment needs and obtain
scholarships.
- TFG president, Linell Fromm, served on a committee to select
candidates for the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship program. In
addition to reading and scoring written applications, Dr. Fromm served
on oral interview panels in the former post Soviet bloc countries of
Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. The Muskie program provides opportunities
for Master's level study in the United States to graduate students and
professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine and Uzbekistan in eleven academic fields. It is funded by the
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the US Department of
State. Dr. Fromm's work was managed by IREX (the International Research
& Exchanges Board), an international nonprofit organization
specializing in education, independent media, internet development, and
civil society programs in the United States, Europe, Eurasia, the Middle
East and North Africa, and Asia.
- In December 2004, the Breed Street Shul Project, Inc. was awarded a
grant from the California Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE) to
preserve and restore a historically-important building in the Boyle
Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The Fromm Group
provided grant writing assistance.
- TFG president Linell Fromm received a Fulbright Scholar award for
2005 where she was based in Kiev, Ukraine at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
She specialized in public health, public administration and the
management of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In addition to her
teaching assignments, Dr. Fromm assisted faculty and administration in
curricula redesign and reform, and consulted with chambers of commerce
to train chamber and bank professionals in techniques for improving
customer service.
- In Fall 2004 Dr. Fromm returned from Central Asia (Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyztan) where she assisted government workers and international NGOs
in establishing transparent employment practices and hiring procedures,
and provided workshops on career development to job
seekers.
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