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Prosperity Rings was founded in 2000 by Nancy Pasternak, a mental health trauma and domestic violence specialist, after witnessing the poverty and victimization of women in India. Prosperity Rings is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable foundation formed to grant funds to be used as loans so that vulnerable women can establish small enterprises as a means of support for their families. We connect donors from relatively prosperous countries with a pool of the "poorest of the poor" in third world countries. Through accredited on-site micro-lending partner organizations in India--SPANDANA, ANISHA, and SRI, that we screened and selected--we link donors to give loans to specific women borrowers to enable donor measurement of personal and community progress.
The repayment of the loans plus the interest generates more funds that can be reinvested as a second and third loan or used to start other women on their journey toward sustainable prosperity. Thus, your contribution keeps on growing. The entire community benefits from improvement projects brought about by these newly confident and capable leaders.
You, as a donor, are welcome to accompany us on our monitoring visits to our borrowers in India.
Nancy says, "It is Derick's and my pleasure to continue to donate the administrative and travel expenses of Prosperity Rings so that all donor funds go directly to the borrowers."
BOARD MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES
Nancy Pasternak, President and CEO of Prosperity Rings, is a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor who specializes in treating survivors of domestic violence and post traumatic stress. While Executive Director of Apna Ghar, domestic violence shelter and social services for South Asians in Chicago, she learned about micro credit loans to poor women in India as a means to empower them and lift them and their families out of poverty and subservient status. Inspired by this phenomenally effective loan methodology, she created Prosperity Rings as a 501©(3), a family foundation, in December 2000. In Dushanbe, Tajikistan she spent nine months with Doctors Without Borders training professionals to treat their population with post civil war trauma, and later went back and established the first Tajik Rotary Club. With Northwest Medical Teams International she provided similar training for post tsunami Indonesia and post earthquake El Salvador.
For eleven years, Nancy taught Dale Carnegie human relations courses in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she and her husband raised their three children, Ken, Katherine and Sarah. Her MA in counseling is from the University of New Mexico. Nancy also earned a Masters Degree in Hispanic American Studies at Stanford University after which she studied a year at the University of San Andres, Bolivia on a Rotary Fellowship. From that year and her Junior year in Spain, she speaks fluent Spanish.
Nancy has been an active and longtime Rotarian, for which she received Rotarian of the Year Award and was recognized at their International Conference.
Maggie Gunter, PhD, new Secretary of the Prosperity Rings Board, is a health services researcher and medical sociologist who has served since 1991 as President and Executive Director of the Lovelace Clinic Foundation, an applied health research institute based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Gunter’s key research interest is in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health care innovations intended to improve the quality, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of health care in the U.S. Her specific areas of research interest are: translation of evidence-based research into practice, disease management, health care disparities, population health, and the impact of health information technology on health quality and costs.
Dr. Gunter and Lovelace Clinic Foundation have been actively involved for the past decade in the HMO Research Network, a collaboration of 15 respected research organizations affiliated with integrated delivery systems across the U.S., including Kaiser-Permanente (various regions), Harvard-Pilgrim, Henry Ford, Health Partners (MN), Geisinger, Scott and White, and Marshfield. Dr. Gunter is currently leading the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative, a multi-organizational consortium which is building a statewide health information exchange network to pull together scattered electronic patient information across health systems to improve care and efficiency at the point of care.
Dr. Gunter received her doctorate in medical sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Derick P. Pasternak, MD, MBA, FACPE
Managing Director, Joint Commission International, Middle East Office
Dr. Pasternak, Prosperity Rings Treasurer, has over 35 years experience in health care as a physician and 17 years as a health care executive. He was a JCI consultant prior to his position as Managing Director. In addition, Dr. Pasternak had consulted extensively since 1993 in all parts of the world. He is the author of several articles and an eBook on the subject of health care quality and medical management.
Dr. Pasternak held academic appointments at the U. of New Mexico and the U. of Illinois School of Medicine, and was Clinical Professor of Health Care Management at the U. of Washington School of Public Health. In the 1980s and 90s Dr. Pasternak was CEO of the Lovelace Health Systems of Albuquerque, NM, and later Senior Executive in the Providence Health System, Seattle, WA, including being CEO of Medalia Healthcare, a 300 physician primary care organization. He has expertise in patient safety, quality measurement and management, and speaks French, German, Hungarian, and some Spanish.
Dr. Pasternak's professional affiliations include Distinguished Fellow & Life Member of the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE)-Trustee, 1991-94; Secretary-Treasurer, American Group Practice Association, 1992-94; Fellow of the American College of Physicians; and Councilor, New Mexico Medical Society, 1981-1990.
Philip Marshall Durbrow, Chairman & CEO, Marshall Strategy
One of the world’s leading authorities on corporate and brand identity.
As Chairman of Marshall Strategy, Philip provides leadership for our firm and, as head of our international identity practice, provides strategic and creative guidance to high level government, corporate and non-profit clients. Philip was formerly Vice Chairman of Landor Associates, the world's largest identity firm, where he founded and managed the worldwide Corporate Identity Group. He was also Vice Chairman of Frankfurt Balkind, the leading communication consultancy to the motion picture and television industry.
Philip has personally directed over two hundred programs creating successful identity strategies for entities such as: GE, Caterpillar, Bank of America, Fleet Financial, Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, Cotton Incorporated, Stanford University, Pacific Telesis, Sprint, Knight Ridder, Times Mirror, Westin Hotels, Alcatel (France), Barclay’s Bank (England), Old Mutual (S.Africa), Sony (Japan), Feruzzi (Italy) Jardine Matheson (Hong Kong), The World Wildlife Fund (Switz.) and the Nobel Prize Committee (Sweden). He has served on The President’s Design Council and has been a featured speaker at the World Affairs Council, The European CEO Roundtable, The American Marketing Association, The Bank Marketing Association and The American Society of Security Analysts. He is a former Hollywood stuntman and Army officer who has trained with the U.S. Equestrian Team and was a member of the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team.
Philip graduated from Menlo College, attended the School of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley, received his BGE from the University of Nebraska and graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School. Strategic Identity Programs led by Philip Durbrow General Electric, World Wildlife Fund, Cotton, Inc., American Film Institute, Caterpillar, 20th Century Fox.
Sarah Pasternak is a Public Health Specialist with nine years of experience in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS. Upon graduating from Harvard University in 1998 with a degree in Social Anthropology, Sarah volunteered in Zimbabwe where she developed a passion for treating and preventing infectious diseases. As a result, she pursued a Masters in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
From 2003 to 2007 Sarah managed an HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention Program aimed at high risk groups under the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. In 2007, she moved to Ethiopia to lead the Clinton Foundation’s Pediatric HIV Initiative where her focus was enabling access to quality Pediatric HIV testing, treatment and care and building the capacity of the government to develop and implement robust Pediatric HIV strategies, guidelines and policies.
Sarah has traveled extensively throughout Africa, Europe and North America, speaks Spanish and French and enjoys photography and scrapbooking. She has just joined Clinton Foundation Vietnam as the Director of HIV Programs, based in Hanoi.
Honorable Jane Wiegand, Juris Doctor
Jane Wiegand, Lawyer at Al Kamali Advocates and Legal Consultants, focuses on business law including corporate, commercial, real estate, medical, energy and mining law as well as project finance. She is a Partner in a law firm in the Republic of Georgia that is affiliated with Al Kamali Advocates and Legal Consultants in the UAE.
Ms. Wiegand held an appellate position in the Workers Compensation Court system in California, a position for which she was unanimously confirmed by the California Senate. During her tenure, she wrote thousands of Appellate Decisions.
Ms. Wiegand served as Advisor the President and Ministers of the Republic of Georgia on Judicial Reform. She established training programs for lawyers, judges and the media, organized the Georgian Judges’ Association, advised President Edward Shevardnadze, the Majority Leader of Parliament (who is currently President of Georgia), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Council of Justice on Judicial Reform, drafted and advised the Parliamentary Committees on many proposed laws, was spokesperson to the media on Judicial Reform, and managed an office of four attorneys and two paralegals and a multi million dollar budget.
Ms. Wiegand later was elected Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of Georgia, and subsequently was elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce of Georgia. She was also President Elect of the Rotary Club.
In 2004, Ms. Wiegand took a Leave of Absence from her law practice to serve as Senior Advisor on Privatization and Foreign Direct Investment to Ambassador Khalilzad at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ambassador Khalilzad is currently US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Earlier Ms. Wiegand served as an Associate General Counsel at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC., and served as the Senior Attorney for a Division of a Fortune 500 Corporation, International Harvester Company.
Ms. Wiegand studied at the Hague Academy of International Law, Den Hague, The Netherlands; University of San Diego, School of Law, Juris Doctor, Cum Laude; University of California, Berkeley, California, BA; and Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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