Southern california Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. The third partner is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many f you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963. Which is the kennedy period when back to. S date they are going to be releasing it, 20 at the door. You do have to sign up in advance. I think it will be a very interesting exploration of the histry of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things pdaa does is provides awards for the diplomacy t public work that department of state, public dimcy officers are doing. W
Mayors of louisville and anaheim and possibly one other mayor travel to india. Right now we only have one member in india. We hope to increase memberships and get cities more active. Major tate was so impressed with what he saw that he wants to launch a yearlong campaign. Its the Strong Cities network messaging campaign on kindness. One thing ill note about this, not all cities, violent extremism isnt an immediate major concern for all cities. Granted, there are attacks in places where its quite surprising like that town, that really small town in texas a couple months ago. That being said, mayors are not going to allocate huge amount of resources just because its topic of the day or whatever. Its just to say that by investing or getting mayors to invest in social cohesion, kind of a know your neighbor kind of initiative, thats something that some cities can buy into and you know its not going to upset advocacy groups or whatever. Thats just to say this delegation is really important f
Talked about strengthening kplu community resilience. This took place in Southern California. Its about an hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon. And welcome to the first monday, actually the first monday working in january. This is it a partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California center for communication leadership and policy. And also president of the Public Diplomacy counsel. Those are two of the partners in these monthly events. The third is the Public Diplomacy alumni situation and plea pleased to have that president here. Its my pleasure to welcome you. And highlight three events. Office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume on the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. They are going to be releasing it at decor house, 20 at the door, but you do hav
Next well have the approval of the june 22, 2016, Commission Meeting minutes if no corrections. Move to approve. It has been there is a motion that has been seconded that we approve the june 22, 2016, Commission Minutes i. Opposed . The is have it. So the that item passes we changed this around so we have the report from the director directors report director sherren. Thank you commissioner president james i want to note i actually asked bridget to change this because staff come from the employee of the month award id like them to hear the directors report as well thats the only change i wanted to say that we spent a fruitful 4 or 5 days in san Diego San Francisco took 10 people mostly manager and one nonprofits providers to the conference with the National Association of area aging on the conference we go to and commissioner president james has been before and as usual good information about policy updates at the federal level also a good chance to exchange the best practices with the
Meeting minutes if no corrections. Move to approve. It has been there is a motion that has been seconded that we approve the june 22, 2016, Commission Minutes i. Opposed . The is have it. So the that item passes we changed this around so we have the report from the director directors report director sherren. Thank you commissioner president james i want to note i actually asked bridget to change this because staff come from the employee of the month award id like them to hear the directors report as well thats the only change i wanted to say that we spent a fruitful 4 or 5 days in san Diego San Francisco took 10 people mostly manager and one nonprofits providers to the conference with the National Association of area aging on the conference we go to and commissioner president james has been before and as usual good information about policy updates at the federal level also a good chance to exchange the best practices with the colleagues countrys the country and San Francisco stands out