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About FSDF
Vision, Mission and Strategies
The FSDF Vision is to build capacity in individuals and groups to improve their quality of life. The Mission is to facilitate sustainable, participatory development, with respect to the social and natural environment. Strategies include providing planning assistance to identify felt needs, financial assistance to meet self-determined goals, technical assistance to enhance economic development, social assistance for empowerment and self-determination; and facilitating collaborative research-and-development projects, including providing internships and practica in applied sciences.
Program Areas and Collaborators
- Capacity-Building in International Development
- Ethnographic/Visual Documentation of Traditions
- Latin America mountain village settings, U.S. People of color
- Public Policy and Anthropology
Staff, Associates and Advisors
FSDF works with project counterparts and with professionals and interns in the natural and social sciences and engineering. Dr. John van Willigen, University of Kentucky serves as projects advisor. Clyde Tyndall, Lincoln Indian Center, serves as advisor for Native populations projects.
2005 Strategic Goals
- Strategic Goal #1: Update FSDF
- Strategic Goal #2: Secure Funding
- Strategic Goal #3: Create "Community of Practice"
- Strategic Goal #4: Develop Training
- Strategic Goal # 5 Manage Projects
- Strategic Goal #6: Plan Site
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Founder and Director
Emilia González-Clements is a member of the González family of Nuevo León and the Terán family of Guanajuato, México, on her paternal and maternal sides, respectively. She was born in Texas and raised in both Texas and México. After public school in Texas, she received a B.A. in Sociology from Niagara University, New York, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. in Applied Social Anthropology from the University of Kentucky. Her professional background includes social work, women's advocacy, social justice advocacy, university-level teaching in applied anthropology, and entrepreneurship. She is president of Development Systems/Applications International, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in ethnographic applied/policy research, public participation, strategic planning, group facilitation and international development. Gonzalez-Clements serves as the chief operating officer for Renewable Products Development Laboratories, Inc. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of American Education, and is a fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. González-Clements is the Immediate Past President of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology.
She is married to L. Davis Clements, CEO of Renewable Products Development Laboratories (RPDL). They have three grown children, and live in Portland, Oregon, near their two daughters and three grandchildren.
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