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Register for a CORE Group Meeting

 

Upcoming events

    • February 25, 2010
    • April 16, 2010
    • CORE Group

    CORE Group’s Community Health Network serves women and children worldwide by advancing the field of community health. CORE Group’s organizational members supply the primary energy of this network—they pool the wisdom they’ve gained working around the world; they create a vision of a prosperous, equitable world; and they map out how international development efforts can reshape the world in that image.


    Please make sure to fill out the membership renewal form. The completed form can be sent via email to Julia Blencowe, jblencowe "at" coregroupdc.org or mailed to the address below.


    This membership renewal page is only for those organizations paying their dues online.  If you would like to pay by check please send to:

    CORE Group
    1100 G Street NW, Suite 400
    Washington DC 20005

    *Please make checks out to "CORE Inc."

    • April 26, 2010
    • April 30, 2010
    • Baltimore, MD
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    Sponsor a table at this year's CORE Group Spring Meeting!  Having your own designated space will give your organization a chance to highlight specific projects, disseminate materials, and provide a "communication station" for informal dialogue with meeting participants during breaks.
     
    Cost (for the entire week):

    CORE Members: Full Table: $450   /   Half Table: $225

    All others: Full Table: $750   /   Half Table: $400


    All sponsorship proceeds support the work of CORE Group and its members.

    This is not the page to register to attend the Spring Meeting.  Please do that here.
    • April 26, 2010
    • 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
    • Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore, 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
    CORE Group Spring Meeting 2010

    Monday Pre-Meeting Sessions


    9:00 – 12:30 pm

    Maternal Anemia – A Platform for Integration -- A half-day symposium/workshop addressing scientific and programmatic issues for effective scale-up of maternal and child anemia interventions. A program designed to strengthen the knowledge base, identify operations research issues, and share practical ways of overcoming barriers for implementing effective maternal (and child) anemia control interventions among CORE Group PVOs and partner organizations.

    12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch

    2:00 – 5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

    Introduction to Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool to Help Make Decisions for the Design of Nutrition Programs -- Come learn about this newly developed guide for program planning teams seeking to select the most appropriate community-based nutrition approaches for specific target areas.  Complemented by a Workbook, the tool starts by helping the user analyze the current nutrition situation, moves into identifying potential program approaches to consider, and ends by narrowing down the best combination of approaches given the current situation, resources and objectives. 

    Lives Saved Tool (LiST) -- Learn more about LiST and how it can be used in Child Survival Projects. This half day training session on LiST will include an overview of the tool and training on how to use the software for program planning, evaluation and advocacy.

    $30 for  1/2 day or full day attendance.  Lunch is included in the registration fee.

    Don't Forget to Register for the full conference here or Register as a daily attendee here .


    To book a room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel please call(410) 539-8400 or email rhi_biha@radisson.com and mention the CORE Group Spring 2010 Meeting.  Meeting attendees who book by April 5 will be charged at $157 a night for any size of room.


    • April 26, 2010
    • 06:00 PM
    • April 30, 2010
    • Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore, 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
    CORE Group Spring Meeting 2010

    Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Communities and Health Systems Strengthening


    Full registration:
    CORE Group members: $475
    Non-members: $575*

    Daily rates:
    CORE Group members: $175
    Non-members: $200*


    To see whether your organization is a member of CORE Group please click here.

    Daily registration
    here

    Register for Monday's pre-meeting sessions here

    Registration includes breakfast, lunch, tea breaks, materials, skill-building and state-of-the-art sessions, and ample time for networking.

    *Please note:                                                                                       
     - This year, due to budgetary considerations, registered individuals who do not attend the meeting will be billed a $75 non refundable fee.
     - Participants registering after April 16 will be charged an extra $50.


    CORE Group’s Spring Meeting is open to CORE Group members and colleagues of the CORE Community Health Network.  This content-rich event  features products and skill-building events created by our eight working groups, State-of-the-Art Updates on maternal and child health, dialogues on community health, Working Group planning, and networking.  The workshop style enables all participants to actively contribute.

    Meeting objectives:
    1.  Develop a better understanding of enabling factors to strengthen effective community health systems, and identify strategies for their application in CORE Group member efforts. 

    2.  Identify at least two to three key resources or new technical information that will benefit their organization’s  maternal and child health program quality and impact. 

    3.  Support the development of CORE Group through input into at least one CORE Group MNCH Initiative.

    4.  Participate in the review of FY10 CORE Working Group activities and products and contribute to the development of FY11 Working Group plans. 

    5. Fostered at least one new partnership with CORE Group members, donors, academia, private sector and/or other institutions. 


    Please visit the CORE Group website for details of last year's Spring Meeting.

    To book a room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel please call
    (410) 539-8400 or email rhi_biha@radisson.com and mention the CORE Group Spring 2010 Meeting.  Meeting attendees who book by April 5 will be charged at $157 a night for any size of room.

    Make sure to check back soon for more details on our Thursday social!

    • April 26, 2010
    • 06:00 PM
    • April 30, 2010
    • Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore, 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
    CORE Group Spring Meeting 2010

    Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Communities and Health Systems Strengthening


    Daily rates:
    CORE Group members: $175
    Non-members: $200*

    Full registration:
    CORE Group members: $475
    Non-members: $575*

    To see whether your organization is a member of CORE Group please click here.

    Full conference registration here

    Register for Monday's pre-meeting sessions here

    Registration includes breakfast, lunch, tea breaks, materials, skill-building and state-of-the-art sessions, and ample time for networking.

    *Please note:                                                                                       
     - This year, due to budgetary considerations, registered individuals who do not attend the meeting will be billed a $75 non refundable fee.
     - Participants registering after April 16 will be charged an extra $50.


    CORE Group’s Spring Meeting is open to CORE Group members and colleagues of the CORE Community Health Network.  This content-rich event  features products and skill-building events created by our eight working groups, State-of-the-Art Updates on maternal and child health, dialogues on community health, Working Group planning, and networking.  The workshop style enables all participants to actively contribute.

    Meeting objectives:
    1.  Develop a better understanding of enabling factors to strengthen effective community health systems, and identify strategies for their application in CORE Group member efforts. 

    2.  Identify at least two to three key resources or new technical information that will benefit their organization’s  maternal and child health program quality and impact. 

    3.  Support the development of CORE Group through input into at least one CORE Group MNCH Initiative.

    4.  Participate in the review of FY10 CORE Working Group activities and products and contribute to the development of FY11 Working Group plans. 

    5. Fostered at least one new partnership with CORE Group members, donors, academia, private sector and/or other institutions. 


    Please visit the CORE Group website for details of last year's Spring Meeting.

    To book a room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel please call
    (410) 539-8400 or email rhi_biha@radisson.com and mention the CORE Group Spring 2010 Meeting.  Meeting attendees who book by April 5 will be charged at $157 a night for any size of room.

    Make sure to check back soon for more details on our Thursday social!

    • May 03, 2010
    • 09:00 AM
    • May 07, 2010
    • 03:30 PM
    • Save the Children, 2000 L St Suite 500 Washington DC 20056 Conference Room B/C
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    The Social and Behavior Change Working Group of the CORE Group is pleased to invite you to attend a Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) training course. This course is appropriate for all CORE Group member staff responsible for designing behavior change strategies as part of their maternal and child health programs or providing technical assistance to ongoing projects. No prior experience with DBC is necessary.

    Attendance will be limited to 20 participants and each organization is asked to send no more than two participants. If space remains as the registration deadline approaches, exceptions may be made. The course will be taught in English.

    Date: May 3-7, 2010

    Time: 9am to 5pm each day (Friday will end around 3:30)

    Cost: $300 per participant. Includes tea breaks, lunch and the DBC Curriculum.

    Please note: You are not officially registered until we receive your payment and you receive confirmation of that payment. If you are paying by check, we must receive your check by April 13th, 2010.

    *There are no refunds for those who register and do not attend.

 

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