When choosing participants, Mr. Podany selected countries that already had some damage mitigation efforts under way; each country must organize, host and secure financing for its own conference.
Kim Gandy is the president and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the organizing host of the Chefs Take a Stand to End Domestic Violence event on October 9 in Washington, DC.
This unique national discussion was organized and hosted by AmericaSpeaks, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with a demonstrated track record of providing citizens with a voice on the most important issues that impact their lives.
The audience at "SpeakEasy," at the Mayo Center, organized and hosted by the comedian Maureen Langan of Manhattan, also seemed to feel some sort of connectivity.
The summit was organized and hosted by Michele Combs, who heads up the group Young Conservatives for Energy Reform (Y.C.E.R ., and her mother, Roberta Combs, the president and C.E.O. of the Christian Coalition of America.
Again on Friday, in "Taste of China," the first of two programs at Zankel Hall that she organized and hosted as part of the festival, she told the audience that the qin was a solo instrument and did not like to play with others.
This work has been financially supported and co-authored by AkzoNobel and organized and hosted by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Particularly noteworthy in this regard is the Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference, which has been hosted annually for fifteen years primarily through the indefatigable efforts of J. Everet Green and Leonard Harris, and the Alain Locke Conference organized and hosted biannually by the Department of Philosophy of Howard University (Washington, DC).
Building Bridges 22 SATURDAY For 25 years, Neil and Pegi Young have organized and hosted the Bridge School Benefit Concert, a two-day, largely acoustic event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre outside San Francisco that features some of pop music's most revered names in a relaxed, sonically superb setting.
At a 2-day meeting organized and hosted by the World Heath Organization (WHO) here, 60 leaders in the field of global health statistics drew up a set of proposals to improve the world's ability to count the sick and the dead.
