Loren Finnell is the founder and Executive Director of The Resource Foundation

The Resource Foundation

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. He has 40 years of experience working with international nonprofit organizations in various capacities.

About

Finnell had two tenures with International Voluntary Services

International Voluntary Services

International Voluntary Services, Inc., was a private nonprofit organization that placed American volunteers in development projects in Third World countries. IVS had volunteers in Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Laos, Nepal, South Vietnam and other countries...

, as Program Director in Washington, DC (1971-72) and as Staff in Laos (1966-68). In the interim, he was Project Officer for the International Development Foundation, serving in Colombia and Ecuador. Finnell's international career began as a Peace Corps

Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...

 volunteer in Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

 from 1964-66.

From 1972 to 1979, Finnell helped found and develop Private Agencies Collaborating Together (PACT), a U.S.-based international consortium of NGOs, serving as its Deputy Executive Director and managing a Development Fund that granted $2.5-$4.0 million annually to socioeconomic development projects.

Prior to establishing The Resource Foundation in 1987, Finnell headed his own consulting firm for eight years, supporting the programmatic and management needs of U.S., Canadian and developing world non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well as fulfilling USAID contracts.

Finnell is currently active in Rotary International

Rotary International

Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...

 and is a past President of his Club in Larchmont, NY (2000-01).

Recognition

Finnell was listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities (1963-64) and Outstanding Young Men of America (1970). He has been honored twice by his alma mater, Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana, once for his philanthropic activity (1997), and later with an Alumni Award (2002). In 2006, Finnell received the Sargent Shriver

Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...

Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service.

Publications

• Peacemakers: a case for private development organizations
• Reflections on September 11

External links

• The Resource Foundation website