Dr. Derreck Kayongo Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Greenwich, Connecticut, US

At Sharing Sacred Spaces, we use a community-building structure focusing on the vehicles of architecture and space to bring people together in a compelling, non-threatening way.​We use space as a community-building tool because space includes both built forms and their contexts. Every space contains within it some kind of belief system, some kind of value.

Manufacturing biodegradable utensils.Market Opportunity: The global disposable cutlery market is projected to reach USD 20.3 billion by 2033, with a growing demand for eco-friendly products. Halidom targets a SOM of 1% of the plastic utensils market, translating to $18.4 million in annual sales.Competitive Advantage: Halidom's innovative use of recycled.

I'm a proud member of the Tufts university's Fletcher school board.

Arlington, Virginia, US

The Voices of Smart Power:I have given over 400 speeches on key topics.Topics:* The power of Corporate social Responsibility for a community * How to use failure to build success* How to raise start up capital for your venture; be it an NGO or For Profit* Keys to successful fundraising* The walk from vision to building a successful business* Business.

• In 2009 I founded an innovative NGO that takes partially used bars of soap from hotels and recycles them into new bars of soap which are then redistributed to vulnerable populations (refugees, orphans, internally.
• Built a soap-recycling factory from scratch.
• From one thousand bars of soap a week to manufacturing one million bars of soap a year.
• Recruited board which includes among others the UPS Corporation, Hilton Corporation, and Center for Disease
• Because of my innovative work I was named among the top ten CNN HEROS awardees 2012. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive11/derreck.kayongo.html
• Raised $2million dollars to build the organization, $1.3 million of which was from the Hilton Corporation. http://hiltonworldwide.com/corporate-responsibility/partnerships/global-soap-project/ Currently named by US.

Atlanta, GA, US

My role as CEO will be to help elevate the visibility of the CENTER globally and show case some of the most incredible stories ever told about abusers of both Civil and Human Rights and in juxtaposition depict the victims of that abuse through the heroic actions to reverse these abuses through Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Ms. Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela and.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Advanced CARE's advocacy agenda by growing a diverse and active constituency by mobilizing volunteers to help educate policymakers on issues. Generate an outreach strategy for CARE’s advocacy department with the goal.
• Created CARE's Leadership Council made up of retired Members of Congress (RMOC) to help advocate on behalf of CARE’s policy agenda. Members of the Council includ Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Bill Frist, Rep. Brad Miller.
• Helped CARE’s Government Relations unit develop legislation favoring CARE’s advocacy work in the area of food security, Micro-finance, Education and Child policy especially Child marriage
• Initiated and cultivated partnerships with like-minded organizations that led to the formation of coalition policy campaigns. Examples include my work with the ONE Campaign, Results, UNA, USGLC on the International.
• As member of the issues team (Food security, Education and Climate Change) I helped register the largest number of CARE advocates in the Southeast.
• As lead recruiter for the CARE National Conference, I brought over 500 advocates to Washington DC

Taught and mentored Urban Development students.

London, Greater London, GB

• Regional Director,As Regional Director l managed and coordinated AIUSA membership development and servicing operations for the South. This included translating human rights strategies into regional organizing plans.
• Conducted election monitoring with the CARTER Center as lead Human Rights observer in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
• Direct day-to-day operations, including supervising staff and volunteers, partly managed a half a million-dollar budget, and coordinating ongoing regional work with the national office. Other duties included: Public.
• Organizing and planning annual regional and leadership conference with 400 members attending.
• Material mobilization and development for volunteer training. This also included locating and developing a database of facilitators and trainers.
• Visiting and attending local group meetings all over the south. I developed a yearly calendar for the visitation and during this time attended to members needs and also managed conflicts between volunteers

Philadelphia, PA, US

• American Friends Service Committee, Atlanta GA, 1995-2000Program Director,Directed the Southern Africa Peace Education Program focusing on mass education, grass roots organizing, community outreach, mobilization, and.
• Lead a team to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda to evaluate, monitor and recommend possible formation of conflict resolution mechanisms or processes in the region using Quaker strategies and methodologies. We.
• Managed the UMTATA Project in Mozambique. Responsible for program monitoring and evaluation process
• Worked in partnership with civil society organizations like Amnesty International, Carter Center, United Nations Association, United Nations Children’s Educational Fund, Concerned Black Clergy, CARE International.
• Coordinating workshops, conferences, forums and campaigns on Southern African issues like Debt crisis (Jubilee 2000) Landmines, Child soldiers and War Veterans, Female circumcision (FGM), Corruption, Genocide, Poverty.
• Developed campaign positions

Washington, DC, US

Coordinated information meetings between CEO and high-ranking Members of Congress to educate the Members on the importance of US involvement in Rwanda and the impending refugee deluge in the Great Lake region.Responsible for coordinating briefings on US-Africa policy analysis used by the Center to critic or advise Congressman Tony Hall on his approach to.

Honorary Doctorate In Science, Public Health

Honorary Doctor Of Humane Letters, Philosophy

Ba, Business Administration & Management

Masters, Law And Diplomacy