SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - May 22, 2006 - Ninth House, Inc., the leadership and management company, today announced the donation of Ninth House Leadership Development Solutions Suite and just-in-time learning series, Instant Advice ®, to LINGOs (Learning for International Non-Governmental Organizations). The donation supports LINGOs´ dedication to effectively develop and cultivate leaders at international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that quickly respond to and provide humanitarian relief to emergencies in over 60 countries.
International NGOs are experiencing significant growth to provide humanitarian assistance to over 750 million people worldwide. With member organizations employing thousands of employees and facing the imminent retirement of senior staff in the next five years, LINGOs will leverage the Ninth House Leadership Development Solutions Suite and Instant Advice to more quickly and effectively develop, cultivate, and retain leaders within member agencies.
"Over the next five years, our member NGOs need to identify and develop thousands of new leaders worldwide," said Eric Berg, executive director of LINGOs. "With Ninth House´s generous donation, we can deliver high-quality, cost-effective leadership development training to in-country and expatriate staff of our member agencies."
Ninth House Leadership Development Solutions Suite combines highly relevant content from today´s leading business experts, interactive simulations, and engaging online learning to more effectively develop leaders at all levels of the organization. Used as a reinforcement tool with Ninth House´s courses, Instant Advice provides just-in-time learning with over 450 Web-based videos that provides immediate, actionable solutions to many of today´s business challenges.
"LINGOs is providing an invaluable service to international NGOs and their staff, who are at the forefront of responding to and providing humanitarian relief to disasters worldwide," said Ninth House, Inc. CEO and co-founder, Jeff Snipes. "By donating our leadership and management development solutions to LINGOs, we are continuing the Ninth House commitment to personal growth and cultivating better leaders globally."
About LINGOs (Learning for International Non-Governmental Organizations)
LINGOs is a consortium of leading international relief and development organizations dedicated to sharing learning resources and experiences aimed at alleviating poverty and suffering and effectively responding to humanitarian emergencies around the world. Members include Care, Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, Mercy Corps and many others. LINGOs also engages Partner Companies working in technology assisted learning and related learning fields to provide expert help and support for the LINGOs mission. Headquartered in Seattle, WA, LINGOs can be found on the web at www.lingos.org.
About Ninth House
Ninth House, Inc. provides leadership development solutions that integrate content from leading business experts with self-paced online courses and practical simulations to more effectively develop leaders at all levels of an organization. The Ninth House curriculum addresses the most relevant issues an organization faces-from leadership and innovation, to building community in the workplace, to managing change. Ninth House´s leadership development solutions are easily scaleable, customized and deployed to a corporation´s workforce based on business needs; thereby, providing organizations with rapid, measurable impact on employee behavioral change, while increasing productivity. Ninth House customers include nearly 200 global 2000 and government organizations globally such as Amazon.com, British Telecommunications, SSM Healthcare, United States Navy, and United States Department of Justice.
Ninth House is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit the Ninth House website at: www.ninthhouse.com, or call: 415-277-8200.
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