Posner Center for International Development

Physical and virtual collaborative workspace: the Posner Center brings together close to 200 colorado-based global Development organizations, working in over 100 countries, and encompassing all sectors and approaches to Development work. The organization operates a 25,000 square foot collaborative workspace in denver, called the horse barn, and offer expansive programming, organizational and professional Development, and other educational opportunities for our community. Development organizations face many similar challenges in their work to create change around the world. They also face similar challenges when it comes to office space. Small budgets, competition for limited resources, a lack of connection, and feeling isolated from International teams are among some of the biggest challenges for Development professionals, especially in Colorado. Posner Center was created with the belief that sharing and collaboration can address these challenges and transform the way Development work is done. The Posner Center horse barn building serves as a collaborative workspace ...

Posner Center symposium: in february 2019, the organization held the inaugural Posner Center symposium, convening global Development leaders, practitioners, researchers, academics and supporters with the purpose of sharing knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned to improve global Development work and contribute to the evidence base of best practices in collaborative global Development. The success of our first symposium reflected the enthusiasm and innovation of the Posner Center community as well as the rigor of its knowledge and expertise. for the second annual symposium in february 2020, the organizations convened an even larger community of leaders and agitators who are thinking differently about how we make significantly bigger impacts in global Development work through collaboration. With attendees from seattle, California, Washington d.c. and mexico mixed with Posner Center and Colorado communities, there were two days of collective energy, insightful dialogues and lots of "big and bad" ideas in collaborative global Development. The ...

The International collaboration fund (icf): icf is a grant program that is transforming how global Development work is done. The Posner Center funds innovative partnerships within our community, leveraging the power of collaboration for greatest impact. Funded projects strengthen evidence-based best practice in global Development, deepen our understanding of collaborative processes, strengthen programs and organizations, and create change in communities worldwide. The learning and value from projects can be applied by other organizations in our community or across our sector. By 2019 Posner Center has funded 34 projects, granted 365,000 to 69 tenant, member and partner organizations participated for work in 19 countries. One example of the innovative work the organization has supported is a project between Posner Center founding tenant, ide, and blockchain technology company, bext360, that is helping small honduran coffee farmers move up the coffee value chain via blockchain" by directly linking farmers in honduras to coffee ...