Professional Resources

PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

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ICDLA's Professional Resources are an important part of our strong network of partners who help us promote citizen diplomacy in Los Angeles. By making time in their busy schedules to meet with our international visitors to exchange ideas, challenges and successes, our Professional Resources ensure that visitors return home with valuable connections and new information to share throughout their wide fields of influence. The meetings often become a catalyst for strengthening and developing change in the visitors' organizations, businesses, or governments. The time a Professional Resource spends with a visitor can have a lasting impact on the world.

Our Professional Resources represent many different fields, from community-based volunteer organizations, to Fortune 500 companies, to government agencies. Each year, ICDLA presents the Outstanding Resource Award to a resource that has consistently provided exceptional meetings for visitors.

For a list of previous ICDLA Outstanding Professional Resource Award recipients, click here.

"The visit to the Downtown Women’s Center was one of a very impactful experiences of the program. I was especially inspired by the candle-making lab, which beautifully blends skill-building, creativity, and economic empowerment for women facing housing insecurity. It resonated deeply with the work we’re doing in Albania through [my organization], where we aim to transform our soap and handicraft trainings into a sustainable lab model that can provide both income and dignity for women in vulnerable situations. The center’s holistic, trauma-informed approach is something I’ll carry forward in our own initiatives."

~ Participant from Albania on a program about Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship

a glance at some of OUR PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES AROUND THE GREATER L.A. REGION

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If you are interested in becoming a professional resource, please contact Danica Kreculj, Director of International Programming, at dkreculj@icdla.org.

Want to become a Corporate Sponsor? Check out our sponsorship options here.