The document provides a status report for June 2009 to the Board of Directors. It summarizes the institutional staffing and infrastructure updates, including implementation of new financial and HR systems. It outlines ongoing projects with municipal governments and partners. These include area plans for Amman and master plans for various cities. It also describes the outreach and training programs over the period, including public forums on leadership and urban governance. Research projects covered real estate reports and transportation modeling. The organization is working to expand its regional work and opportunities through partnerships and proposals.

1. Status Report June 2009 Presented to the Board of Directors

2. Agenda Institutional Projects Prospects Outreach Program Training Program Research Program

3. Institutional

4. Staff 27 staff members 2 internationals 15% males, 85% females 84% professional, 16% technical and administrative Average Age 32 yrs Educational Attainment: 14 with Masters' degree, 1 PhD holder

5. Institutional Infrastructure Finance: Web Enabled Financial Management System (ACCPAC) Being implemented (completion July 2009) HR Manual being completed 360 performance appraisal started Training program for the year established Project Management Office (PMO) System design underway, with expert consultancy Staff training underway (PMO certification) Expected to be set up by end of August 2009 Branding: Graphic Design Manual Completed IT: Ai Servers and corporate e-document filing system being implemented & web site being re-designed

6. Projects

7. Amman Plan 2009 Budget of 3M JD In partnership with planning Alliance Main deliverables: Zoning by law, downtown revitalization, and community plans

8. Ministry of Municipal Affairs 2009 Budget of 2.2M JD In partnership with planning Alliance Master plans for Irbid,, Fuhays, Mahis, New Ein Al Basha, New Arda Growth Strategies for Rusaifa and New Birin

9. Outreach Programs

10. Centennial Forums Forum I: Youthful Prospective Forum II: Transparency in Urban Governance - Ronald MacLean-Abaroa Forum III: Distributed Leadership - Marshall Ganz

11. Centennial Forums Marshall Ganz: Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government on grassroots organizing and leadership Had a major role in the Obama campaign training sessions on personal narrative and distributed leadership has been involved in community organizing since the 60s when he was part of the Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers

12. Children Program City Passport 3-d Map Children Animated Book

13. Publications

14. Publications

15. Training and Executive Education Transportation Impact Study with Jordan Engineers Association

16. Research Real Estate Market Report 2008 UC Berkeley on Dedicated Bus Lane Modelling

17. MapJo.com A Public Web Mapping Clearing House (bi-lingual) Leveraging the Data Created by the Various Master Planning Initiatives A Service to Smaller Municipalities to have GIS Establishing a Standard for Jordan

18. Market Development Ai Branding Completed + Marketing Package in prep Ai Tracking Regional Opportunities Ai - World Bank discussions to become their ‘partner’ to deliver WB Urban Sector Program in the Arab World Ai Discussions with Palestinian Investment Fund to assist in planning efforts European Union Call for Proposals with Istanbul and Paris prepared: Mobility and Environment Proposal submitted for WB Municipal Regional Development Project in Jordan Encore work potential for MoMA work