COADY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2003-2004 CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF BUILDING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AROUND THE GLOBE OUR STAFF Director/University Vice President - Mary Coyle, MA PROGRAM AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ‘‘ The world the way it is, Sue Adams, MLIS, MAdEd - Librarian Colleen Cameron, BN, RN, MAEd - Senior Program Staff is not the way it has to be’’ Gord Cunningham, MA - Senior Program Staff James Delaney, MA - Program Associate, Monitoring and Evaluation REV. DR. MOSES COADY, Christina Edwards BA- Fund Development Associate Megan Foster, BRM - Program Assistant MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY, 1938 Olga Gladkikh,MA - Manager,Direct Education Program Krista Hall, BJH - Communications Officer Louise Hamelin, BA - Youth Programs Co-ordinator Catherine Irving, MA - Library Assistant Hugh Landry, MBA - Assistant Director/Manager, Global Partnerships Program Nanci Lee, MSc - Senior Program Staff Janet MacDonald, BA - Admissions Officer Allison Maddison,BA - Program Assistant (to July 2004) This year the Coady International Katy Mahon, BDes - Fund Development Associate Institute celebrates 45 years of (to February 2004) Alison Mathie, PhD - Senior Program Staff educating and working with Heather Myers, BA - Program Co-ordinator community leaders and (to March 2004) Daren Okafo, BSc - Technology and Innovations organizations from around the globe Co-ordinator to achieve Moses Coady’s vision of Sr.Joanne O’Regan, BA - Program Assistant Nancy Peters, MAdED - Program Associate, the good society – a world where Monitoring and Evaluation (to August 2004) everyone could enjoy the full and Leslie Tinkham, MPA - Fund Development Manager Mildred Toogood, BEd - Registrar (to May 2004) abundant life and be “Masters of Thomas Mark Turay, PhD - Senior Program Staff Their Own Destiny.” ASSOCIATE STAFF H.R.Amit, MA - past Director, Coady International Institute Wilf Bean, PhD - Tatamagouche Centre The face of St. Francis Xavier University communities.Through citizen-engagement Santo Dodaro, PhD - StFX Economics Department around the globe, the Coady Institute is and cooperation they are working to build John Hugh Edwards, MA - StFX Extension Department possibly our best-kept secret at home. socially just and economically vibrant Jeannette Eno, MSc - Conciliation Resources, Established by St. Francis Xavier University in communities and societies.Their dedication United Kingdom/Sierra Leone Robert Fugere, PhD 1959, the Institute is named for a great and commitment are making a difference. Michael Kasibante, BA - Uganda Microfinance Union Canadian, Rev.Dr. Moses Coady,founder of the John Kearney, PhD - StFX Extension Department Antigonish Movement, a people’s movement Pauline MacIntosh, MAEd - StFX Extension Department for economic and social justice which began in Elaine MacLean, MLIS - Associate Edwin MacLellan, PhD - Associate, UCCB Nova Scotia during the 1920’s.Through our Peggy Mahon, MAEd educational programs, our global partnerships, Jabulani Manombe-Ncube - Development Initiatives and through our efforts to help young and Services, Zimbabwe; Institute for Disability Advocacy, Namibia Canadians become active global citizens, we Maria Recchia, MES - StFX Extension Department are producing positive, lasting results that will Juan Sanchez - CIED, Peru build a better future for our world. Jayshree Vyas, CA - Managing Director, SEWA Bank, India Roger Wehrell, PhD - StFX Extension Department Grounded in practice, advanced by innovative Trevor Wickham, MSc - StFX Extension Department methods, and realized through action, Coady’s programs and partnerships build leadership SUPPORT STAFF and organizational capacity. Betty Durley - Maintenance Carmen Cameron - Maintenance Charlene DeCoste- Admissions Secretary A powerful force for change, the Coady’s Cheryl MacDonald - Assistant - Educational Programs network of 4,700 graduates and numerous Debbie Murphy/Eileen Curley - Secretary to the global partners in over 130 countries is Director Donna Ashe - Printing and Supplies Officer reaching out to millions of men, women and Lola Corkum - Administrative Assistant - Finance children in the world’s poorest nations and MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE AND THE PRESIDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE When the Board of Governors of St. Francis Xavier Forty-five years ago, St. Francis Xavier University started University took the bold step, 45 years ago, to establish an institute named after Rev.Dr. Moses Coady – the Coady International Institute they were responding to prominent founder of the Antigonish Movement – which the hundreds of people from all regions of Canada and today has become a global network of tens of thousands the world who had already been drawn to the campus by of community-based leaders in almost every country in Moses Coady’s inspired vision of the “good society” and the world.The motivation to begin the Coady Institute his practical and respectful people-centered approach to arose from the deep belief that until all people in the achieving that vision – building the capacity of people world are free from grinding and dehumanizing poverty, and communities to be “Masters of Their Own Destinies”. none of us are free. His vision, which had grown out of In today’s language, Moses Coady would be called a the experience of ordinary people in the Atlantic social innovator and innovation is the heart of the Coady provinces, linked the power of adult education with Institute’s work in 2004. democratic participation and community economic Ever at the forefront, Moses Coady was a great development. In the post World War II era of the United believer in the educational power of the mass media – Nations, he wanted Canada to play its part in the creation print, radio and television.Through the newspapers and of a new,more hopeful and peaceful world. broadcasts, people throughout the region and across the The need for the message of Moses Coady,the deep continent were attracted to the spirit of the Antigonish belief in the capacities of all people, and the unshakable Movement and learned about effective methods for commitment to learning, democracy and economic improving social and economic conditions.Today,the development at the community level are as important in Coady Institute builds on that drive to innovate by 2004 as they were in 1959. Happily the Coady launching our new web-based distance education International Institute has continued to grow and expand platform (Cooperator) and our new knowledge its range of service to the world over these years. networking software (Connector). We hope our report this year will intrigue you, inform Credit Unions were Moses Coady’s answer to people’s you and perhaps draw you into our work in still other need to build assets, access loans and have ownership of ways.The only limit to our capacities to make real community capital.Today Coady is working with SEWA difference in the world is our imagination! Let's think big. Bank, a cooperative bank in India owned by 600,000 DR. BUDD HALL women.We are assisting SEWA in the launch of the new Dean of Education, University of Victoria Indian School of Microfinance for Women in an effort which will result in providing financial services for many STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE – YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2004 millions of poor women throughout India. REVENUE 2003 2004 We would like to celebrate and thank our staff, CIDA – GENERAL $ 714,320 $ 1,000,000 volunteers, graduates, partners and our financial SPECIAL PROJECTS 2,166,283 1,862,817 supporters. Looking to the future, we look forward to GENERAL REVENUE 433,251 561,756 OTHER GRANTS AND DONATIONS 347,925 519,955 redoubling our efforts and continuing to innovate in the ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY 100,000 150,000 service of humanity. TOTAL $ 3,761,779 $ 4,094,528 DR. SEAN RILEY EXPENDITURE SALARIES $ 1,207,987 $ 1,298,206 President, St. Francis Xavier University TRAVEL 205,657 260,320 OPERATIONAL & GENERAL EXPENSES 271,157 336,467 MARY COYLE LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS 18,812 22,602 Director, Coady International Institute ROOM AND BOARD 161,685 129,245 FACILITIES AND SERVICES 232,239 176,381 Vice President, St. Francis Xavier University CIDA – SPECIAL PROJECTS 1,664,242 1,871,307 TOTAL $ 3,761,779 $ 4,094,528 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS HILARY PEARSON DR. HUGUETTE LABELLE DR. ROGER WEHRELL President, Philanthropic Foundations Canada Chancellor,University of Ottawa/Past-President, Director,StFX Extension Department CHAIR, DR. BUDD HALL HAROLD REDEKOPP Canadian International Development Agency DR. JEFF ORR Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria Executive Vice-President, CBC, English Television BETTY PLEWES Professor,StFX Education Department MARY COYLE LESLIE TINKHAM Past-President, Canadian Council for International JOHN HARVIE Director,Coady International Institute/ Fund Development Manager, Cooperation CEO, Co-op Atlantic University Vice President, StFX Coady International Institute DR. SEAN RILEY BETH HADDON DR. MONTASSER KAMAL President, St.Francis Xavier University Former Managing Director,English Programming Chief,UN Health Institutions Unit, DR. THOMAS MARK TURAY Services,TV Ontario Multilateral Programs Branch Coady International Institute ANNUAL REPORT 2003-2004 1 THE YEAR AT A GLANCE It was a very successful year for the staff, participants and partners of the Coady International Institute as we completed the first year of our three year action plan Education for Democracy, Prosperity and Peace. EDUCATION INNOVATION AND ACTION • Over 100 development practitioners from 26 countries