Vlada Nedak Email & Phone Number

Ukraine

Project Kesher Ukraine (PKU) is part of a network of women’s groups that invests in women’s leadership and replicable programming responsive to the needs of women in each community where it operates. Starting in the Jewish community, PKU then builds inter-faith networks of women, NGO’s and government institutions to improve the status of women. PKU’s signature activities include: women’s health initiatives, gender violence advocacy and ORT KesherNet vocational training centers.

Ukraine

Executive Member of global NGO responsible for $300,000 budget managing 8 paid staff and 100+ volunteers in Ukraine with a direct line of report to the Executive Direc-tor. Responsible for program design, implementation and evaluation. Outreach strate-gist contacting the media and key stakeholders to advance knowledge of PKU’s pro-gramming. Represent PKU at Ukrainian governmental committee meetings regionally and nationally. Travel globally to represent PK at international professional meetings and training seminars to advance its work. Leadership Training: Designed, implemented, and facilitated leadership training pro-grams impacting the lives of 3,500 women in Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine re-sulting in 1,000 women employed in professional and lay leadership positions advocat-ing for women’s issues locally and nationally for women’s health, preventing gender vio-lence, stopping human trafficking and promoting tolerance.Women's Health: Supervises PKU’s women’s health initiative bringing women’s health campaigns on health, wellness & prevention, reproductive health and chronic disease to 70 communities in Ukraine. In 2016, engaged more than 2,000 Ukrainian women in a campaign to promote Healthy Lifestyles. Recognized nationally for engaging more than 100 Ukrainian NGO’s and government organizations in PKU’s women’s health cam-paigns. Co-founder of All-Ukrainian Coalition of Reproductive Health, uniting 26 organizations across Ukraine. Attended and sent PKU leaders to participate in seminars on reproduc-tive health.Oversees annual campaign to End Gender Violence – This year more than 80 communi-ties participated in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, conducting a wide range of programs from community round tables to trainings and street actions. For the first time, the Ukrainian government officially supported the project and held a kick-off on the steps of the national legislature.

Ukraine

Designed and implemented Mother/Daughter Retreats to empower young women to lead religious and/or social activist programs for youth groups and college campus or-ganizations. Participants learned both content and group process techniques. Successful campaigns included: “Healthy Dating” (learning about healthy versus abusive relation-ships and issues of consent; Health initiatives around reproductive health, smoking, al-cohol/drugs, body image and nutrition; community-wide campaigns to assist orphanages and underprivileged youth using local resources. Managed annual budget of $100,000 and oversaw 6 full and part-time employees.

Ukraine

Managed the opening of 18 vocational computer centers in Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine with a budget of $650,000 (approx. $36,000 per center) over three years. Oversaw development of curriculum and established the centers’ commitment to also serving as a women’s center on topics ranging from women’s health to domestic vio-lence, trafficking in women and interfaith tolerance initiatives. To date, more than 50,000 women have graduated from the centers at a cost of less than $100 per woman with an 87% success rate – success being defined as increased self-sufficiency. The pro-ject has been recognized for its impact by HP, which has provided hardware and Mi-crosoft, which has provided software.

Ukraine

Gathered and analyzed data on impact of Project Kesher’s programs for use in grant writing and reports.

Ukraine

Graduated from PKU leadership seminar for teens and was instrumental in organizing the Jewish community of Kriviy, Rig, Ukraine. Developed and ran first Jewish women’s and youth groups in this city.Today, the community is one of the ten largest Jewish communities in Ukraine, with more than 5,000 members and an active synagogue, Jew-ish Day School and community center.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master'S Degree, Foreign Literature, English Language Teacher

Bachelor'S Degree, Foreign Literature (With Honor)