By Bryan Roesler When my partner, Ashleigh Graves-Roesler, and I embarked on a 27-month journey to Ukraine with the Peace Corps, we were ready for a new adventure. We expected our service to be a short hiatus in our fundraising careers, fully planning to pick up where we left off when we returned to the… Read more »
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Building civil society in Ukraine
by Ashleigh Graves-Roesler In 2016, my husband Bryan and I answered a call to public service and applied to serve in the United States Peace Corps. We accepted placements as Community Development Volunteers in Ukraine and began our 27-month service in March 2017. Following three months of intensive language and technical training in Chernihiv (two… Read more »
Discovering Ukraine
Written by Dr. Les Lenkowsky (introduction) and Diane Thomas, M.A. ’09 Diane Thomas had already raised a family and been a leader in the Indianapolis nonprofit sector when she enrolled in the M.A. in Philanthropic Studies program, earning her degree at the end of 2009. She served as president of the International Center of Indianapolis… Read more »