Welcome to The International Services Council of Alabama!
On behalf of the ISC Board of Directors, Advisory Council, Diplomatic Corps, and the many international visitors we receive every year, we wish to welcome you to our web site and the many interesting opportunities we present to bring the global community to your front door -- and invite you to explore this web site to discover exactly what we do and how you can participate.
Since 1965 we have established and nurtured international contacts with visitors and residents from around the world to enrich Alabama’s education, commerce, and global awareness through a variety of programs, events, and volunteer opportunities.
Alabama residents have eagerly engaged in practicing Citizen Diplomacy: the right, indeed the responsibility, for each individual to help shape U.S. foreign policy “one handshake at a time.”
We are proud of our partnerships with the U.S. Department of State and are grateful to them, to the Small Business Administration, Madison County, the City of Huntsville, the National Council for International Visitors and UAHuntsville for their generous support and collaboration.
Helping to Shape U.S. Foreign Policy
"one handshake at a time."
CONGRATULATIONS
to the 2011 ISC Citizen Diplomacy Awardees
ISC Board Member of the Year - Rena Anderson
Advocacy Award - Orrin Ford
Leadership Appreciation - Verna Gates
Diplomatic Corps Awards:
Imam Abdul-Hakeem Nabeeh Um'Rani
Alston Fitts
Paul Daymond, FBI
H. Pennington "Penny" Whiteside, Jr., UAB
Carolyn Foster, Alabama Faith Council
Citizen Diplomacy Awards:
Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson
Global Women
Rev. Wanda Gail Campbell
Honorable Oscar L. Crawley, Sr.
Betty Morrison
Corporate - Hampton Inn East Chase
Cultural Partners:
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Rosa Parks Museum
National Voting Rights Museum & Institute
Alabama State University Center for the Study of Civil Rights & African-American Culture
Nonprofits:
Birmingham International Center
CATCH Coalition
The Friendship Force of Montgomery
Southern Poverty Law Center
CONGRATULATIONS
to the 2011 ISC Annual Meeting Awardees
Thomas Pickens Gates Award - Anne Burkett
2011 Citizen Diplomat of the Year Award - Dr. John Pottenger
Leadership Appreciation:
Taylor Brooks, Esq.
Dr. Drew Reynolds
Brenda Martin
Advocacy Award - Kay Campbell
Corporate Award - Holiday Inn Downtown Huntsville
Nonprofits of the Year:
HEALS, Inc.
National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (NAPS)
Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative (AMSTI)
International Society of Huntsville
Leadership Huntsville
Child Rights and You America (CRY)
Manna House
Special Contributions to Programming:
Dr. Tammy Summerville
Eugene Fedoseyev
Harrison Diamond
Clay Bennett
Diplomatic Corps:
Deb Adelsperger
Jean Winfrey
Joan Morehead
Alan Petroff & Peggy Sammon
Ralph Petroff & Patricia Sammon
Setareh Tajbakhsh
Dr. Drew & Lynne Reynolds
John Hamilton
Robert & Polly Robb
David & Gail Kimrey
Tim & Janet Yeager
Peggy Bonfield and Orrin Ford receive the International Impact Award from Jacquelyn Shipe, Executive Director of the International Services Council of Alabama during its 45th Anniversary Luncheon.
The couple was recognized because of their international leadership in building relationships with Turkey and extending them to Alabama through the Birmingham International Center.
Turkish Women's delegation hears Kathy Chan's "ENCOUNTERS" and has dialogue with Huntsville women leaders.
Pat Johns, ISC Diplomatic Corps member, introduces Russian educators in the IVLP program, along with their interpreter, to UAHuntsville science and technology students, who demonstrate their moon-buggy concept vehicle as an example of technical education in practice.
The Russian delegation was traveling in Alabama under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program.
Students from the Academy for Science and Foreign Languages in Huntsville, participants in the Global Education in the Schools Project, investigate the art and craft of Russian matryoshka nesting dolls, each of which represents a president from Russia. They are assisted by their Russian language teacher, Eugene Fedoseyev.
This new project features a partnership between ISC and the Academy for Science and Foreign Language Learning (ASFL), a Huntsville city public magnet school, to foster awareness of global culture and to increase tolerance of diversity of various cultures among elementary schoolchildren.
Students from the Academy for Science and Foreign Languages in Huntsville, participants in the Global Education in the Schools Project, investigate the art and craft of Russian matryoshka nesting dolls, each of which represents a president from Russia. They are assisted by their Russian language teacher, Eugene Fedoseyev.
This new project features a partnership between ISC and the Academy for Science and Foreign Language Learning (ASFL), a Huntsville city public magnet school, to foster awareness of global culture and to increase tolerance of diversity of various cultures among elementary schoolchildren.
ISC gratefully acknowledges partners, friends and supporters:
Helping to Shape U.S. Foreign Policy
"one handshake at a time."