Just thought I'd pass this on if anyone is interested. -----Original Message----- From: HBob372917 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 8:04 AM Subject: Support Ukraine Project/Peggy/Opps
>Dear Peggy: > > >The Excellence in Missouri Foundation in collaboration with the Institute of >Public Administration and Regional Development and a team of European and >American consultants has developed a Employee Involvement and Quality >Improvement project for the Ukraine businesses, government and nongovernmental >organizations. > >A project proposal can be found at <a href = "http://www. >geocities.com/Eureka/Park/7566/ukraine.html"> www. >geocities.com/Eureka/Park/7566/ukraine.html <a/>This proposal presents project >rationale, description, implementation process, budget, participant bios and a >budget. It also includes support material. > >The project will enable six to ten selected Ukrainian organizations to acquire >and effectively use methodologies which will enable them to dramatically >improve the quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee >relations of their respective organizations within an 18 month time period. >The project methodologies and design both models and produces highly >participative (democratic) decision making, planning, and design of work >processes which are the key factors in becoming high performance, high >quality, flexible organizations. > >The successful completion of the project will create six organizations which >will become benchmarks for other Ukrainian enterprises to learn from and will >develop a Ukrainian team of practitioner consultants fully capable of >initiating and carrying out the same transformation process with single >organizations or sets of organizations. > >The Excellence in Missouri Foundation was established in 1992 to administer >the Missouri Quality Award program and to promote quality principles in >business, education, government and health care. It is a >501 (c)(3) not-for-profit education organization funded entirely by >contributions from the private sector and income generating activities. > >The mission of the Foundation is to: > > * provide education services that offer individuals and organizations an >understanding of how to improve customer satisfaction, performance, and >quality; >* recognize individuals, teams, and organizations that excellence in quality >leadership; and >* administer the Missouri Quality Award, the Missouri Team Quality Award, >and the Governor's Quality Leadership Award. > >Institute of Public Administration and Regional Development (SPARED) was >created in June, 1997 as research and service structure of Uzhhorod State >University. It inherited the best traditions, experience, material and >intellectual resources of Center for Public Administration Reform and >Assistance which was functioning during 1994-1997 in partnership with Vinson >Institute of Government, University of Georgia, USA. > >The issues of implementing modern management methods in governments, >businesses, NGOs is among IPARD' priorities. Institutes staff have conducted >several workshops, seminars, organized 3 conferences dealing with the subject >of management practice improvement in governments and NGOs of Transcarpathian >region, Ukraine. The institute has published 16 training material books, some >of them were dealing with the subject of Management in Government >Organizations, Modern Techniques of Human Resource Management, Local Economic >Development, Policy Analysis and Decision Making. Institute professors have >implemented 4 practically oriented technical projects focusing on more >efficient interaction between businesses, governments, NGOs in dealing with >common issues. The most recent project (November, 1997 - February, 1998) >funded by a USAID-IREX grant is a project titled:"Training of the Public >Officials and Deputies of the Local Governments in the Mountainous Regions." > >The Excellence in Missouri Foundation perceive the project as within its >mission scope and as an opportunity to support economic development and >quality within a nation in need of this knowledge. The Excellence in Missouri >Foundation also perceive the project as potentially enhancing commerce between >the state of Missouri and Ukraine. Finally, we perceive it as just the right >thing to do, reflecting the tradition of the Marshall Plan. > >I am requesting your support in finding funding for this project. I would >appreciate any contacts you might suggest. We would also welcome your support. > >Thank you for your consideration. If you have any questions, please contact >us. We look forward to hearing from you. > >Warmest regards, > > >Bob Holder > > >
