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An Update – USAID Staff Financial Support Fund needs your support! Links to donate to the fund or to apply for a grant are below.
The good news is that through the generous support of donors the UAA fund has approved grants to more than 108 RIFed USAID staff. The number of people helped is much larger than that when family members are counted. The appreciation of those who have received grants has filled our email box. We continue to receive applications for grants and soon we will be unable to approve applications due to a shortage of funds. Amazingly we have received over $250,000 in donations, in amounts from $10 to $100,000, from 206 individuals, both UAA members and nonmembers. Many donors have given individual donations in the $1000 to $5000 range, and these, along with a few larger donations account for the majority of funds collected. Of course, all donations have contributed to the fund’s success to date by reaching so many people in need.
Here is one of many thank you notes we have received: “I just want to say thank you to UAA for what you are doing. This is a critical lifeline and my wife and I are so grateful for your support, and I am sure the same is true for so many other USAID families. Thank you for your rapid review and approval, and all the work that went into building this fund.”
As a reminder, the UAA is collecting contributions for a USAID staff financial support fund to help as many of the thousands of separated USAID staff as possible to weather the financial strains resulting from their abrupt termination. We are using contributions to fund a grant program to assist terminated staff who are facing unexpected immediate expenses such as temporary housing, medical costs, childcare/eldercare, job search and transportation. The UAA has partnered with the Greater Washington Community Foundation to provide low cost-efficient management services for the fund. Staff who were involuntarily separated or took early retirement from a USAID position after January 20, 2025, and who fall into one of the following employment categories are eligible to apply for a grant: GS, FS, FSL, USPSC, RSSA, PASA, AD, Schedule C, or Fellow position; or former FSN released from USAID-related employment after January 20, 2025 and with SIV residence in the USA for 1 year or less.
The UAA thanks you for your generous support!
CLICK HERE to donate to UAA’s fund.
CLICK HERE for grant application guidelines and application form.
Resource Directory for Involuntarily Separated USAID Staff (click here)
Note from the UAA Board, Oct. 6, 2025
One year ago, as our 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) concluded, the Board’s concerns included increasing the number of UAA members, expanding our ever-popular Mentoring Program with USAID, improving outreach to former USAID FSNs, building UAA regional programs outside the Washington metro area, and quickly engaging with the new Administration. We had a number of group mentoring and coaching calls with Mission Directors and Deputy Directors, providing ideas and insights on navigating the transition from one Administration to another. No one predicted the total dismantling of the Agency, and the subsequent chaos, disruption and dismay that followed.
The UAA joined other groups and individuals that pushed for Congressional action, at the same time increasing our outreach beyond the DC metro area to the Northeast, North Carolina, Florida, and California. We organized a network and joined with other organizations to set up welcome home and meet-and-greet events for our colleagues returning from overseas. We established an emergency fund to provide short term financial support for recently dismissed USAID staff. We have joined other organizations and individuals to discuss assistance strategy, structures and skills needed to implement programs. UAA’s knowledge management program team has focused on ensuring that the knowledge, skills, and experiences of USAID FSNs in particular are captured before these subject matter experts move on to new employment opportunities or to a new field entirely.
UAA’s 2025 AGM is intended to provoke a deep discussion on the future, considering USAID no longer exists. If you are planning on attending the AGM and have not yet registered, please do so. Our venue at the Center for Global Development has limited capacity for in-person participation but can accommodate large numbers virtually. Links are contained in the article below. We want to hear your voices and opinions. See you there!
USAID Knowledge Rescue
USAID’s legacy includes research, data, photos, human interest stories, and collective expertise accumulated over the last six decades of the Agency’s work. Recognizing the urgent need to locate, preserve, and share these resources, the UAA has teamed up with the AtA to collect materials to create a free, searchable database. Join our LinkedIn Group to stay up to date.
So far, we’ve collected 145,393 resources and received individual interview requests from 140 former staff. Share materials you want included in the database. You can also request materials with the same link. If you would like to be considered for an interview, please complete our expression of interest form, and we’ll contact you directly.
Our individual interviews will start in earnest in October, with up to 60 interviews per month. We also are testing an approach to carrying out group discussions on specific approaches, methodologies and tools; the first two (Nature, and Power/Natural Resource Management; and Political Economy Analysis/Thinking Politically) will be piloted later in October, and others will be rolled out later in the year.
News About USAID
Unless otherwise stated, the links below are for information purposes only and do not convey the endorsement of the UAA, its members, or its Board. See:
1) Bulletin Board, including Statements from UAA about Current Events
2) Articles
Please let us know if you have questions or ideas. We are eager to hear from you! A reminder that as an all-volunteer association, we need you to sign up for our various committees. Please see the UAA website committee’s page here to read more about what each committee has been up to. Also, a reminder to pay your annual dues for 2025. If you have already done so, thank you!
Calendar
New! An in-person UAA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held Friday, October 31, at the Center for Global Development (CGD) at 2055 L St NW in Washington, D.C. Members who prefer to attend virtually and those who live outside the Washington, DC, area will be able to join via Zoom. The meeting will begin at 9:00 am, with coffee and snacks provided for in-person attendees beginning at 8:30. The meeting will end at 1:30 followed by lunch for in-person attendees.
Please click here for the full agenda and here for the speaker bios. Registration ended on October 19. For those registered, you will receive an email acknowledgement of your registration for the meeting. For those attending virtually, you will receive a Zoom link for the meeting.
Thank you to everyone who has signed up for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on October 31, both for the in-person and virtual sessions. Additional reading materials can be found here:
Panel on the Future of International Development Cooperation (a brief background paper for that session)
Future Options for UAA (brief background paper for that session)
Member Feedback Form for the 2025 Annual General Meeting
Paper copies of these documents will be available at the AGM at the registration desk.
The UAA Framework 2025 Results Report can be found here.
We look forward to your active participation at the upcoming AGM!
Rotary Club Peace Award to USAID
On September 24, thirty USAID California alumni received the Berkeley Rotary Peace Award. 175 Berkeley Rotarians honored USAID’s decades of global Peace efforts. UC Berkeley Chancellor Lyons and Berkeley Mayor Ishii commended USAID for its 
countless contributions in international development and humanitarian assistance, including critical research. A USAID Peace Tree was planted in Berkeley’s Tilden Park, alongside those for past recipients like Nelson Mandela.
On behalf of USAID, UAA’s Christine Sheckler, a UC Berkeley graduate, proudly received the Berkeley Rotary Peace Award certificate from Berkeley Rotary Organizer, Maxim Schrogin.
UAA Florida Regional Chapter welcomes former USAID staff to Florida
At a meeting of the Foreign Service Retiree Association (FSRA), soon to be renamed Foreign Service Alumni Association (FSAA) of Florida that took place in Delray Beach on Florida’s east coast on September 9th, 2025, many of the 35 participants, mostly from the southern half of the state were former employees of USAID, recently returning to live and work in Florida following the shutdown of our foreign assistance agency. The AFSA affiliated FSAA organization is in the process of changing from a state-wide group of about 400 retired Foreign Service Officers from the five foreign affairs agencies to an alumni association of professionals having worked in diplomacy and development under the auspices of the USG. In partnership with UAAs pioneering Florida Chapter, we are growing and adapting to the needs and preferences of a larger, younger and more diverse group of former federal employees. We hope to help each other and explain to our fellow Floridians why we need to be engaged on the world stage, how that benefits us at home and the benefits of continuing to lead as we have since the Second World War.
The Delray Beach event featured as its luncheon speaker former Ambassador Liliana Ayalde who first served with USAID before joining the State Department and has been a longtime supporter of FSRA and UAA. She spoke about the current unsettling and unprecedented changes to diplomacy and development to an audience who care deeply about both. The luncheon and smaller group meeting afterward were great opportunities to meet a number of new colleagues and reconnect with others who settled in Florida years ago. Each of our new colleagues has a somewhat different story to tell and some significant life and work adjustments to make now that they are returned to Florida and are no longer working for the USG. We look forward to including this large and growing group of colleagues in our social and professional networks, providing advice and information as needed, and sharing what we all have learned living and working abroad with our fellow Americans across the state of Florida with its own development challenges.
UAA Hosts the 2025 Annual Picnic Opening the Doors to All Former Staff and Families.
On September 6 UAA’s Annual Picnic was held at Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria. It was a sunny warm afternoon as hundreds made their way to the pavilion. Roughly 500 people streamed into the area spreading blankets and chairs under the trees and filling tables with an incredible array of dishes. We were ably supported by Daniel from the National Park Service and are grateful for his wonderful assistance throughout. A collection was made by a group of our colleagues of computers and phones to be donated to the World Computer Exchange which will benefit young people around the world. We also promoted the newly established Support Fund which has been launched to support our colleagues during their transitions.
With banners celebrating USAID Forever people renewed friendships, shared experiences and plans. The warmth and compassion far outweighed the overwhelming task in front of all. Conversations are planned to create a way forward for the Alumni Association that will lead into the Annual General Meeting in October. Hopefully, we will do that with the input of new members from diverse backgrounds and new ideas. Our congratulations and appreciation to the many people who contributed, planned and supported the day. The Social Committee, Karen Freeman, Margot Ellis, Denise Rollins, Melissa Williams, Sharon Pauling and Monika Gorzelanska, is grateful for the support of Cheryl Anderson, Beth Hogan, Carol Dabbs, David McCloud and Roberta Mahoney and Chris Milligan and so many others who pitched in to make the day such a welcoming and historic success for UAA. Click here for a potpourri of picnic photos.
Annual “Development Wallahs” Picnic in Vermont
More than 40 former USAID employees gathered for a picnic in Rochester, Vermont on July 23. The gathering included long-time retirees as well as those who were dismissed in the last few months as USAID was dissolved. In addition to many Vermonters, people came from Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut to renew friendships, celebrate USAID’s achievements and share information on efforts to assist those who were dismissed
without notice or support.
Vermont residents Ann and Mike Van Dusen, Anne Aarnes and David Sprague, Connie Carrino and Jeff Sharat, and Margaret Neuse co-hosted the picnic. At the request of the group, Susan Fine, UAA’s coordinator for New England, described UAA’s on-going programs and plans for future activities in the region. David McCloud explained UAA’s recently established grant program to assist staff facing medical, housing, and other immediate crises. Roberta Mahoney also discussed UAA’s efforts to preserve vital information about USAID programs and achievements over the past 64 years and to help USAID’s staff navigate career
transitions.
This was the 18th year that USAID alumni have organized the Development Wallahs picnic in Vermont. Despite the abrupt and destructive liquidation of USAID, attendance at the picnic was the highest ever and pride in USAID’s accomplishments was off the charts.
Development Dialogues
The UAA/DACOR Development Dialogues and the UAA Development Issues Committee Dialogues provide interactive conversations on a broad range of topics relevant to the interests of international development professionals.
Below are summaries of the most recent events. Each includes a link either to an audio or video of the event. Being able to listen or watch an event should be of particular interest to Association members who live outside the DC area.
For a full archive of all events that have audio or video availability, please click here.
Notice:
DACOR has decided that virtual attendance at its programs – including the UAA/DACOR Development Dialogues – will now cost $10 per program, plus a 3% charge for credit card payments. This fee had been voluntary, and many had paid the fee, but in view of the base cost to host virtual or hybrid events, the DACOR Board concluded that all participants should share the expense. The cost of DACOR lunches will remain at $35.
UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue:
USGLC President and CEO Liz Schrayer on “How America Wins in the World”
On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, USGLC President and CEO Liz Schrayer spoke to a sell-out luncheon audience at DACOR. She backed up her talk’s ambitious title “How America Wins in the World” by citing a number of recent important USGLC accomplishments in addressing today’s challenges and by setting out a program of ideas for further building support for development cooperation throughout the nation and in Congress. Many of these ideas are included in the USGLC’s recent report linked here. She welcomed the suggestion for close cooperation with UAA in support of common objectives. At Ms. Schrayer’s request the program was not recorded.
UAA Development Issues Committee Discussion:
Dr. Homi Kharas on “From Aid-Driven To Investment-Driven Models of Sustainable Development”
The Development Issues Committee hosted a discussion on September 9 with Dr. Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow with the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Kharas presented his co-authored paper, “From Aid-Driven to Investment-Driven Models of Sustainable Development.” The paper argues that development finance should be based on estimates of financial needs for environmentally sustainable development in Emerging and Developing Economies in an inter-connected world and that both public and private resources should be mobilized to address these needs. Identified needs include health and education, physical infrastructure, resilience, biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture.
UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue:
Yun Sun on “How Will China Exploit the Retreat of U.S. Diplomacy and Aid?”
On July 22, 2025, a large crowd at DACOR and online heard a very interesting and detailed presentation from Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her topic at this UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue luncheon was the very timely “How Will China Exploit the Retreat of U.S. Diplomacy and Aid?” Click here to see the full program, including the Q&A period.
UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue:
George Ingram on “Where is Development Going? Learning from Experience.”
On Monday, May 19, George Ingram, retiring Senior Fellow at the Brookings’ Center for Sustainable Development, led a conversation with a sold-out crowd at a UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue hybrid luncheon at DACOR on “Where is Development Going? Learning from Experience.” The meeting concluded with a slide show tribute to George for his more than fifty years of development experience. Click here to follow the entire session.
UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue:
Prof. Danny Leipziger spoke on Industrial Policy
On Friday, April 4, 2025, GWU Professor and long-time World Bank economist Danny Leipziger spoke at a UAA/DACOR Development Dialogue (hybrid) luncheon session at DACOR. His engaging and thought-provoking topic was “Is Industrial Policy Still a Dirty Word?” He provided a great synthesis of evolving views on industrial policy, with useful references to history and to contributions of eminent researchers and to World Bank thinking and policy as well. To access the full session video click here.
“The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World “
by John Norris
John Norris‘ book, The Enduring Struggle – The History of the Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, was published in July 2021. In a short review, Foreign Affairs wrote: “This comprehensive history of the U.S. Agency for International Development…deserves to be read by all students of U.S. foreign policy.” A very positive review of The Enduring Struggle by Mary Jane Maxwell has recently been published in the Journal of World History. (Read it here.) Copies may be purchased from the publisher at a 30 percent discount by using the form at this link. Alumni with suggestions for events that will popularize the book or to generate reviews should send their suggestions to Alex Shakow at ashakow@comcast.net.
Additions to the Bibliography of USAID Authors
Four new books have been added to the Bibliography of USAID Authors:
Bloeser, Bee. Vaccines and Bayonets: A Historical Memoir. 2021. ISBN-10. 1127878564.
Step into the heart of a turbulent era with Vaccines & Bayonets, a gripping historical memoir that chronicles one woman’s extraordinary journey with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and CDC in Africa. In this vivid recounting—which one Pulitzer nominee says, “reads like a political thriller, women’s history, and African adventure rolled into one.”—Bee Bloeser unveils the raw reality of her family’s part in the mission to eradicate smallpox, revealing triumphs and trials faced along the way.
As a young wife, Bloeser followed her husband, Carl, to Africa, driven by ideals and a sense of duty. In Nigeria she witnessed the roots and ravages of civil war and the horrors of smallpox and leprosy, yet found beauty in the vibrant local culture.
In Equatorial Guinea, a nation newly independent but plagued by the terror of a brutal dictatorship, secrecy shrouded the people, and Bloeser confronted a world far removed from her idealistic expectations. Forbidden from interacting with locals and surrounded by oppression and suspicion, she documented her experiences in hidden notes, capturing the essence of a desperate struggle.
Through her eyes, readers experience the intense battle against a relentless virus and against tyranny. This memoir is not just a story of medical triumph and America’s global aid and soft power but also a poignant reflection on humanity’s capacity for courage—the indomitable spirit of those who risk everything for a better future.
Ten-year-old Bee Bloeser, in small-town Oklahoma, dreamed of going to Africa to live the life she saw in medical missionaries’ filmstrips. Twenty years later she followed her husband and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Africa in the campaign to wipe out smallpox. The warmth of the people, rhythms of tribal music and visits with a princess in a medieval palace delighted her. But she learned hard facts of women hidden behind walls, tribal conflict, and a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis unknown to the outside world. A violent dictatorship caused her family to live on constant vigil.
Equipped with vivid memories and her personal archives of notes, letters, cables, film and official reports, Bloeser speaks and writes about this personal story set alongside the public triumph of the global eradication of smallpox. Her historical memoir, Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War, receives high praise.
Bloeser has lived in West Africa, the Middle East and Native American nations, and supported her late husband’s public health work on five continents. After decades by his side and in her own career in speech-language pathology, Bloeser now lives in California. An award-winning writer, she is an Associate Member of USAID Alumni Association and a member of Toastmasters International, PEO, multiple authors’ groups and her church. She still wants to return to Africa. She is available for zooming with book clubs.
Waak, Patricia. My Bones are Red: A Spiritual Journey with a Triracial People in the Americas. 2005. Mercer Univ. Press. ISBN: 9780865549173
In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of tri-racial isolates. While much is now being published about Melungeons, little has been written about the cowboy Redbones. The Redbones followed Reverend Joseph Willis to Louisiana in the early 1800s. He was the patriarch of the group and contributed his Baptist ministry to the spiritual composite that would make up their religious heritage. My Bones Are Red primarily tells the stories of the Perkins family. They would stay in Louisiana for at least four decades before crossing the border into Texas. For the first time this book tracks family members who would be sequentially classified by the U.S. census as black, free people of color, mulatto, Indian, and white over a period of one hundred years. Historical evidence suggests the Perkins family and the families they married into were a combination of Native American, African, and British. What started out as a quest to find the mother of her beloved grandfather, became for Patricia Waak a revelation about the diversity of her family. It became, in fact, a spiritual journey as she visited cemeteries, courthouses, and archives from Accomack County, Virginia, to Goliad, Texas. Filled with translations of old court cases, accounts from oral history, and the results of countless hours of research, she also invites us to participate in her own discovery through original poetry which introduces each chapter. Included are photographs, genealogical charts, maps, and copies of old documents. The journey to discover the story of one line of her family, becomes for the author a farewell to her mother and an honoring of the people who contributed to who she is today.
Waak, Patricia. Memories of Africa: Coming Home. Poetry and Prose. 2025. Independently Published. ISBN-13. 979-8298472258.
In 1985, the author began a series of journeys to Africa for work and adventure. During the trips she kept journals and wrote poetry. This book is compilation of some of the poetry and prose that came from her experiences in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Madagascar. Almost all the writing is focused on the wildlife of these countries. Alongside is honoring the people who strive to find a balance between themselves and nature.
She has also written Planet Awakening (Audubon, 2000); Sharing the Earth: Cross Cultural Experiences in Population, Wildlife and the Environment (Audubon), and Ah, Where the Light Shines Through (2004).
Patricia Waak’s international experience includes 5 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and 2 years with the U.S. Peace Corps in Brazil. During her USAID tenure, Pat was a Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Population and Humanitarian Assistance and the Bureau for Development Support, and Associate and Deputy Director of the Office of Population. She also served as the Agency’s liaison for the Global 2000 Study. She has served as a USAID consultant in Washington DC, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria; and Nepal. She has also served as Party Chairperson for the Colorado Democratic Party.
Cheema JK. The Black Attache. 2023. Caumet Editions, ISBN-10.1960250809.
The Black Attache by JK Cheema is a blend of history, travelogue and reflections in the form of short vignettes from Cheema’s life. In the Black Attache, Cheema shares her memories from the events she experienced during the India-Pakistan partition to her growing up in India, nearly dying on the last train out from Lahore, Pakistan. It covers her time at graduate school in Ann Arbor and her very lengthy and unusual career with USAID. She served in several backstops, mostly in difficult posts such as Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Eritrea and Afghanistan and became a senior foreign service officer. After 25 years overseas, including several consultancies, she retired to Madison, Wisconsin, settling back in the US with her husband Jeffrey Wright. The Black Attache is the first of her two books sharing her life. It is a snapshot of a young girl born in India, aspiring to make a difference in the world and doing so as a foreign service officer with USAID.
Cheema joined USAID in 1991 as a Health officer. Her first tour was in Burkina Faso as the director of the Health and Populations office. After two years she was assigned as the acting USAID Rep and tasked with closing the USAID Mission. In 1995, Cheema moved to the Regional Central Asia Mission in Almaty as the General Development Office in the Social Transition Office where she primarily managed the health reform portfolio. In 1991, Cheema moved to Armenia as the Deputy Mission Director, responsible for establishing the Armenia mission as an independent USAID Mission and being responsible for the Nagorno Karabakh programs. In 2001, Cheema was assigned as the Mission Director to Eritrea, where she was promoted into the ranks of the senior foreign service. In 2005 she moved to Ghana, first as the Director of the West Africa Regional Programs (WARP) and then as Mission Director for the newly established West Africa Regional Mission. After mandatory retirement at the age of sixty-five, Cheema continued to work first as the senior policy advisor to the USAID/Afghanistan Mission (2008-2009) and then as the Acting Mission Director to Armenia (2009-2012). During spring of 2016, she did two short term assignments, one to Sierra Leone and then to Guinea-Conakry. In the fall of 2016, she moved to Almaty as the acting Mission Director for the Central Asia Mission. Cheema finally retired from USAID work in the fall of 2017 and devoted her time to community work and as a writer in Madison, where she settled with her husband Jeffrey Wright and where she founded “A Place to Be,” a salon for creative conversation and dialogue.
In Memoriam
UAA has learned of the recent deaths of the following members of our USAID alumni community:
Carol Henderson Tyson, Stephen Hirscher Spangler, James Louis Blum, John Rudolph Eriksson, Brooke C. Holmes, Duff G. Gillespie, Thomas Hamlin Reese III, Lestine Rebecca “Tess” Johnston, Geswaldo “Joe” Verrone, Nicholas Christopher Howe MacNeil, William John Garvelink, Rodney William Johnson, John H. “Jack” Sullivan, Bruce Duncan Carlson, Catherine Ann Savino, Patty S. Gerlach, D. Bruce Kellogg, Richard Hale Fischman, James Beebe, Stanley Davis Heishman, Peter Benedict, Gloria Greene Blackwell, Agatha Gwendolyn Brown, Timothy Joseph Bork, Barton “Barry” Veret, Stephen Klein, Vincent Cusumano, Irving M. Destler, Bruce Stader, Stephen Hall Grant, Hannah Maxine Baldwin
A full listing of alumni obituaries may be seen in the In Memoriam section.
If you would like to provide a brief obituary or personal tribute for these former colleagues and friends to be posted on this website or if you know of other people who have passed way and have not been noted here, please send the information to: office@usaidalumni.org Attn: Memorials.
AFSA death notices for USAID members not in UAA In Memoriam list
Click hereto see a list from 25 pages of American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) members specifying USAID as their foreign affairs agency who have died since AFSA started keeping track in the Memorial Tribute section of its website, but who were not listed in the In Memoriam section of the UAA website (as of June 2023). Most of the entries do not include obituaries. Those that do have been added to UAA In Memoriam Previous Tributes. Missing obituaries would be welcome at office@usaidalumni.org Attn: Memorials.
Supporting Our Mission Israel LE Staff Colleagues Via the FSN Emergency Relief Fund
Our colleagues, especially the Locally Employed Staff at Mission Israel and those residing in Gaza, are directly affected by the war between Israel and Hamas. This includes those working for USAID.
AFSA would like to draw attention to the opportunity for all of us to meaningfully support our colleagues by giving to the FSN Emergency Relief Fund. We urge you to continue reading here to learn more about this Fund and to explore how you can lend your support.
Emergency Relief Funds for Ukraine: for FSNs and for Ukrainian Citizens
For information about contributing to relief of the Ukraine emergency, including the FSN Emergency Relief Fund and ways to support the people of Ukraine compiled by DACOR Bacon House Foundation’s Development Office, click here.
UAA Partnership with American University Library Archives
Since 2019 the American University Library Archives have welcomed donations of AID alumni personal memorabilia of their USAID service. The UAA has now established a partnership with the Archives to support the preparation, processing, and making available to researchers of these papers, including those donated by the UAA and by individual alumni and others. We envision the program will continue for five or more years; after two years the Archivist and UAA will assess the program’s effectiveness before committing for the additional years. The UAA has pledged an initial sum of $10,000 over two years ($5,000 each year) to finance student interns to help prepare and organize these papers and make them more easily available. The funding for this program is drawn entirely from contributions made to the AID history project, which included the clear hope that the book would stimulate further study and understanding of AID’s more than 60 years of development history. AID alumni are strongly urged to consider donating their memorabilia to this collection. (See https://usaidalumni.org/uaa-and-american-university-archives-opportunity-for-usaid-alumni/)
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