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Business-Community Synergies (BCS) offers advisory, applied research and training services to establish, strengthen and maintain positive relationships between multinational businesses and the communities where they operate. BCS works with multinational clients to engage with communities in ways that promote sustainable local development.

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BCS Welcomes Marcella Peralta Simon

 

Marcella Peralta Simon has joined BCS as program manager overseeing our newly awarded contract to train USAID personnel. She has over 20 years of experience in adult learning strategies and human capital development including teaching and training, curriculum and instructional design, and project management for the U.S. Department of State, George Washington University, and various private and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and overseas.

The TEST Program, which Ms. Simon will manage, provides training, management, and advisory services to USAID's Office of Education for instructional design, development and delivery of a suite of courses, clinics, and associated face-to-face, hybrid, and online learning modalities that support ongoing professional development for USAID staff who work in the education sector.

May 2, 2012

Dr. Rani Parker will moderate a Panel Discussion on June 7, 2012 at 1:00pm entitled "The Key Challenge of Our Energy Future: Can we build an Energy Policy that is both equitable and sustainable".

Panelists will be Dr. Brian Schwartz, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Dr. Michal Freedhoff, Policy Director for Congressman Edward J. Markey and Senior Investigator and Policy Coordinator for the House Natural Resources Committee; and Ms. Hannah Polikov, Senior Policy Advisor for Maryland Energy Administration. For more information on attending the Panel Discussion, please click here.


April 16, 2012

BCS Moves to offices in Washington DC!
Our new address is: 1319 F Street NW, Suite 305, Washington DC 20004

February 8, 2012

BCS profiled in the February edition of Maryland Entrepreneur Quarterly.
Business Community Synergies Rockville
By Susan Kim, Managing Editor - February 8, 2012; Posted in: MEQ

After years of researching the sometimes rocky relationship between businesses and local communities worldwide, Dr. Rani Parker decided to dedicate her life to exploring how businesses can mitigate risk while helping local communities along the path to development. After earning a Ph.D. from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management, she turned her passion for business-community relations into a business with Business Community Synergies (www.bcsynergies.com). Read more....

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This fund was created to honor the memory of Koilpillai Parker, father of A. Rani Parker, BCS CEO and chair and president of the Koilpillai Parker Memorial Fund Board of Directors.

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