Harry Mertens

Current

Senior project leader Social Cohesion at MOVISIE

Past

Program coordinator at Orange Foundation
Senior staff member innovation at Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare
Staff member at NFB

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Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Industry

Program Development

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Harry Mertens’s Summary

Project manager aiming at at improving the conditions of people living in a multicultural environment using their talents and strenght.

Harry Mertens’s Specialties:

Management of lager projects concerning community development, improving the social cohesion in a multicultural context, ageing and ethnicity, use of ICT in social policy.

Harry Mertens’s Experience

Senior project leader Social Cohesion

MOVISIE

(Non-Profit; Civic & Social Organization industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

MOVISIE is the Netherlands centre for social development. Our mission is to promote the participation and independence of citizens. We do this by supporting and advising professional organizations, volunteer organizations and government institutions in the field of welfare, care and social development. Five themes are central to our work: Informal Care, Vulnerable Groups, Volunteer Effort, Domestic and Sexual Violence, Social Cohesion.
Program coordinator

Orange Foundation

(Philanthropy industry)

2004 — August 2007 (3 years )

Leader of a 3 years lasting project Multicultural neighbourhoods. In this project more than 30 welfare organizatiions recieved a grant from € 70.000 to improve their capabillity to work in a multicultural environment.
Senior staff member innovation

Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Program Development industry)

January 1989 — December 2006 (18 years )

The Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare / NIZW is an independent organization dedicated to quality and innovation of the care and welfare sector. This sector employs over 750,000 professionals and many volunteers in the Netherlands.
Within NIZW I´m involved in all kind of innovations that supports the sector and thus contributes to a caring society, in which citizens’ personal responsibility and freedom of choice come first. My main focus is on multicultural issues and ICT & social policy. At the moment I´m the projectmanager of a national programm ´the multicultural neighbourhood'. The programm is sponsored by the Orange Foundation.
Staff member

NFB

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

1985 — 1989 (4 years )