Advancing Leadership for 80 Years 80World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2010–2011 3 World Learning’s Global Reach World Learning is a nonprofit organization that advances leadership through education, exchange, and development programs in more than 60 countries.

World Learning field staff or offices in 2012 Programs, sub-recipients, participants’ home countries, practicum placements Welcome Letter from our President: Advancing Leadership for a Global Age

s I crisscrossed the Each program: world during the past year, I observed World Learning n Uses time-tested models of advancing leadership. experiential education to design WeA are working with a rising and deliver life-changing programs. generation preparing them with the leadership skills, community-building n Teaches the next generation the skills tools, and cross-cultural understanding that are essential in a global age, they will need to address the critical an age in which problems are more global issues that will shape the 21st complex and require coordination century. This generation represents across many cultural, disciplinary, 50 percent of the world’s population. and political boundaries.

I witnessed emerging leaders in rural n Empowers and educates individuals, schools in Ethiopia and at an intimate while also strengthening the gathering of Middle Eastern social innova- institutions that the next tors in Istanbul. I sat with SIT students in generation will depend upon. India discussing women’s empowerment, and I listened to returning Experimenters This year, World Learning marks its 80th talking about their new world views. Anniversary. We will celebrate in many Perhaps my proudest moment was venues and invite you to organize your watching one of our recent participants, own commemorative activities. a Vermont Experimenter, present Senator In this Annual Report, you will meet Patrick Leahy with our highest honor— forward-looking people who see the The World Learning Distinguished world both as it is and as it could be. Global Citizen Achievement Award. Over my eight years at World Learning, World Learning is advancing leadership I have been proud to work with them, and through our signature education, I am certain that their commitment to our exchange, and development programs: values and mission will continue long after The Experiment in International Living, I finish my tenure as president and CEO SIT Study Abroad, SIT Graduate Institute, of World Learning in June of 2013. International Honors Program, and our I hope that our story will inspire you to Washington, DC-based development encourage participation in World Learning and exchange programs. programs and provide essential support. All these programs share a common On behalf of the more than 1,000 World mission and core attributes that make Learning staff around the world in over them distinctly World Learning. 60 countries, we thank you. On our cover: Teens are inspired to make healthy choices through the Kapelako Project, a World Learning program in Angola that works to

strengthen the ability of communities to develop Adam S. Weinberg and carry out HIV prevention. President/CEO World Learning World Learning’s Global Timeline Travel through time to explore the growth and global impact of World Learning programs.

1932 1934 1962 1964

An Idea Sargent Shriver Lighting the Undergrads is Born Joins The Way for SIT Go Global During the Great Experiment The Experiment The Cooperative Depression, Syracuse The 19-year-old has a provides the first Overseas Program, University Professor life-changing experience Peace Corps training, an Experiment/SIT Dr. Donald B. Watt on an Experiment. He leading to the pilot program for founds The Experi- later becomes a group development of university students, is ment in International leader and goes on School for an instant success. It Living as a way to improve cross-cultural to found the US International later paves the way for understanding. Peace Corps. Training (SIT) SIT Study Abroad. in 1964.

We invite you to check out the full interactive global timeline by visiting http://timeline.worldlearning.org. Photos courtesy of World Learning Institutional Archives

2 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Celebrating 80 years of Leadership 1932–2012 Years 801975 1992 2001 2010

Approaching New Name, Citizen IHP Development Global Scope Diplomacy Comparative Differently The organization World Learning Advantage The Experiment becomes World acquires exchange International Honors launches Projects Learning. The flag- provider Delphi Inter- Program is welcomed in Development and ship Experiment name national, leading to into the SIT Study Training, precursor is retained for summer a robust program of Abroad portfolio, offer- to International high school programs. academic and ing multiple-continent Development and professional comparative study Exchange programs. exchanges, including on social justice and the US State Depart- sustainability issues. ment’s International Visitor Leadership Program.

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 3 The Experiment in International Living

The Experiment’s three- to five-week summer programs immerse high school students in other cultures and languages in 30 countries throughout the world. Programs focused on arts, travel, language study, community service, culinary exploration, and ecology combine with homestays to create meaningful, dynamic experiences for students eager to challenge themselves and engage as global citizens.

www.experimentinternational.org

Clockwise from upper left: Experimenters make n Enrollment 2012 771 chocolate in France, explore the mountains n Programs offered 54 of Peru, and participate in community service n Countries with programs 30 projects in Tanzania and South Africa. n Scholarship recipients (2012) 416

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Leadership: Outbound Ambassador Support Omiyinka Doris, Maputo, Mozambique Experimenter to Italy ’92; Group Leader, Italy ’97

n 1992, Omiyinka Doris travelled lived throughout the world, including to Italy for the first time as the United Kingdom, Italy, and Brazil. an Outbound Ambassador. Currently, she is living in Maputo, I“The premise of the program Mozambique. “Each time I am in a new is experiential learning. We toured cross-cultural experience, I still find myself Rome on our own using maps, our relying on many of the skills I developed wits, and rudimentary Italian, and in The Experiment,” Doris explains. discussed in depth how to bridge cultural differences in preparation Today, Doris is still closely tied to The for living with Italian families for three Experiment. “Tony [Allen, Experiment weeks,” says Doris. “Initially, I thought co-director] sends me some of his it would be difficult, but I quickly favorite student essays at the end of the learned how much I enjoy living summer each year,” she says. “It’s always outside of my comfort zone and wonderful to learn of their experiences, placing myself into situations that the things they’ve discovered, and both challenge me.” the fun they’ve had and the challenges they’ve faced.” Omiyinka Doris discovered a passion for “I also discovered that I am passionate languages and cultures as an Experimenter. about learning languages, understanding Each year she gives a gift to provide different cultures, and, most of all, about financial assistance to Experimenters. Italy,” she adds. Upon her return to the “I participated in The Experiment through “Cross-cultural states, she continued learning Italian, an Outbound Ambassador Scholarship. teaching herself with a grammar book Now that I am in a position to help other experiences in order to stay in touch with her new students also have an experience that create openness Italian friends. When she was admitted to may not have otherwise been possible, Harvard, she studied Italian and spent her it’s very meaningful,” she explains. and understanding. junior fall semester abroad in Padova. “I know what an extraordinary impact I would encourage The summer after graduating, she led the program had on my life. Cross- an Experiment group in Italy. “It was an cultural experiences create openness everyone who incredible opportunity. It was great reliving and understanding. I would encourage a lot of my moments as an Experimenter everyone who feels as strongly as I feels as strongly with these 10 incredible students and do about The Experiment to give.” as I do about sharing some of my favorite places in Italy, as well as discovering new ones.” In 2012, 54 percent of Experimenters The Experiment students benefitted from Outbound to give.” Doris has continued to seek out Ambassador Scholarships. international opportunities and has World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 5 SIT Study Abroad

SIT Study Abroad provides undergraduates academically rich, semester, summer, and academic year programs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, with opportunities for field research and International Honors Program comparative study. Students focus on a wide range of critical global issues, including post-conflict transformation, sustainable development, and global health.

www.sit.edu/studyabroad

n Enrollment 2011–12 2,215 n Programs offered 69 n Countries 48 n Faculty 105 n Number of colleges/universities represented 270 Clockwise from upper left: SIT Study Abroad program foci include the challenges of globalization in India and other countries; reconciliation in Rwanda; multiculturalism and social change in Bolivia, and critical global issues around the world.

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Leadership: Micro-economic Support for Sub-Saharan Africa Susan Plimpton, Minneapolis, Minnesota Experimenter to Sweden ’63; Experiment Leader ’68; MA, SIT Graduate Institute ’72; Experiment Parent ’00; SIT Study Abroad Parent ’01; Trustee ’98–’10, Trustee Emerita, ’11–present; Infinity Club member since ’12

hen Susan and David a micro-economic model, the fund Plimpton were asked by pinpointed projects in seven communi- World Learning six years ties throughout sub-Saharan Africa. “The W ago to consider funding SIT Study Abroad staff who lived in these a leadership program for young adults communities had relationships with local in the war-ravaged country of Uganda, leaders who had a good understanding they quickly agreed. Their abiding of what would be most helpful to them,” concern for this part of the world explains Susan. had started years before—first when a summer in Sweden with The community and SIT staff and The Experiment in International students collaborated to develop Living raised Susan’s international projects, and the Innovation Fund awareness, and later during her provided seed money to get them internships in Tanzania and Italy while off the ground. Projects included the a graduate student at the School for construction of a health clinic in Kenya, International Training. a primary school in Madagascar, a high school library in South Africa, sponsor- “When I visited the program, I was blown ship of a symposium on reconciliation in Susan Plimpton became more internationally away by the youthful Ugandan partici- Rwanda, and a savings and investment aware as an Experimenter and SIT Graduate pants,” recalls Susan. “They were so full workshop in Uganda. Institute student. of energy and hope. All our objectives for the programs were achieved, and “It was great to work with the community “It is amazing it showed me the significant impact a leaders and SIT Study Abroad staff and relatively modest amount of money students, who knew how to use the how far the could have in that part of the world.” funds to their best advantage,” says money goes Susan, who also recently made a legacy That experience led Susan and David gift to World Learning. “It is amazing when it’s to establish the Plimpton Africa how far the money goes when it’s invested Innovation Fund in 2010. Based on invested wisely.” wisely.”

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 7 SIT Graduate Institute

SIT Graduate Institute offers internationally focused, full-time and low-residency master’s degrees, as well as certificate and professional development programs on World Learning’s Brattleboro, Vermont, campus and at the Washington DC Center. Programs include peacebuilding and conflict transfor- mation, international education, sustainable development, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). SIT’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) program also offers a Summer Peacebuilding Program in Vermont and a peacebuilding training and education program in South Asia.

www.sit.edu/graduate Clockwise from upper left: A diverse n student body enhances an SIT Total Enrollment 461 Fall 2012 incoming enrollment 186 education; the Vermont campus; Dean n Master’s degrees offered 7 Preeti Schroff-Mehta teaches a policy n Certificate programs offered 3 advocacy class in Bangladesh; n Number of countries represented* 33 Associate Professor Tatsushi Arai n leads a class discussion. Languages represented* 71 n P ercentage of international students* 30 *Fall 2012 on-campus enrollment 8 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Education

Russ Bickler Scholarship Fund Created by classmates in memory of Russ Bickler, SIT Graduate Institute,1989

uss Bickler got a great “We talked with Lisa Gurwitch in job after graduating from Advancement, and she gave us ideas SIT Graduate Institute in of things we could do,” says Coonahan. R 1989. “Many of us were “We wrote a letter to everyone to see going into difficult international set- what they thought.” tings, and Russ landed a job as a park ranger in the Hawaii Volcanoes The class response was positive. National Park,” says classmate and Everyone was excited about an SIT friend Phil Hunsicker. “He was in scholarship in Russ’s name. what we all considered to be a “One of our classmates emailed everyone safe place.” and told them exactly what he was going Ironically, Bickler was the first class to contribute to the fund,” says Hun- graduate to lose his life when a drug sicker. “It was kind of a high amount, so dealer in a high speed chase slammed it really set the bar for the rest of us. We into his truck, killing him instantly. didn’t want anyone to feel pressured, but Russ Bickler 1948–1996 we wanted everyone to be able to give “As the years went by,” reflects Hunsicker, what they could.” “I’d look at my life and wonder what kind “We needed some- of difference I was making, what kind of “We didn’t need a tragedy like Russ’s thing we all felt legacy I was leaving in the world. I’d also to start a scholarship fund,” Coonahan think of Russ, how little time he had, and explains. “We needed something we all strongly about. what I could do to ensure that he had a felt strongly about. For our class, it was For our class, it legacy as well.” ensuring that this person who had meant so much to us and who held so much was ensuring that Several years ago, Bickler’s SIT class, promise was able to leave an enduring this person who the PIM 44 group, had a reunion at the mark in the world. We think the Russ SIT Vermont campus. “It was a great Bickler Scholarship Fund does just that.” had meant so much weekend,”recalls Hunsicker, “but we to us and who held were aware of Russ’s absence.” so much promise The experience prompted Hunsicker to talk with classmate Cheryl Lower was able to leave Coonahan about doing something in an enduring mark honor of Russ. in the world.”

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 9 Exchange Programs

World Learning organizes transformative exchanges and study tours for thousands of emerging leaders from 140 countries annually. Programs develop leadership skills, community- building tools, and professional expertise while immersing participants in other cultures and contexts.

Short-term learning experiences in the US offer professional development through links to US and international colleagues. Academic exchanges place international exchange students in US colleges and universities to strengthen leadership and career-specific skills while exploring US culture. World Learning youth programs help young people from around the globe learn about leadership, current issues, and peacebuilding, as they gain the skills and motivation to make a difference in their communities.

Clockwise from upper left: An academic exchange alumna www.worldlearning.org from Serbia shows off her drumming; Vermont Governor’s Institute participants build leadership skills in Brattleboro; n Programs offered 5 academic, 7 professional, 24 youth the Next Generation Speaks Youth Forum in Turkey; an academic exchange student points out his home country of the Philippines. n Participants (2012) 3,129 n Countries represented annually 140

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Leadership: Community Service Jaime Montoya, Santa Tecla, El Salvador Global UGRAD alumnus, 09–10, World Learning Alumni Engagement Initiative Grantee

simple program requirement, had learned that the students at this small 20 hours of volunteer work, rural school had no access to computers taught Jaime Montoya or the Internet. They previously used their A one of the most important teachers’ personal laptops, but last year things he learned while on the Global those computers were all stolen. Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD)—the value of With the $3,000 grant Montoya community service. purchased five new computers with Internet access and a multi-function “Now I cannot think about myself without printer. A local missionary heard about volunteering,” he said. his project and donated an additional eight used computers and the school Montoya spent the 2009–2010 academic purchased a projector. Montoya Students at Centro Escuela Caserío Corrinta year at the University of Alabama in taught the school’s 214 students in El Salvador have access to computers thanks Huntsville on a Global UGRAD exchange basic computer skills and also to a World Learning Alumni Engagement implemented by World Learning on behalf trained a teacher to continue the Initiative grant. of the US Department of State. When he classes when the grant ended. returned home to El Salvador, Montoya continued volunteering with ConTextos, “If they have the computer skills they “Now I cannot a local education nonprofit. need, they will have more chances to think about succeed in high school,” Montoya said. This year Montoya was one of the first myself without participants in World Learning’s new Montoya should know. He was recently volunteering.” Alumni Engagement Initiative, an online awarded a Fulbright scholarship for fully small grants training course that funded graduate studies at a US univer- committed World Learning and State sity. He plans to volunteer at the school Department funds to support community until he begins his master’s degree in improvement efforts by Global UGRAD computer science. alumni. He received a grant to implement the Computers Return to School project at Centro Escuela Caserío Corrinta in El Salvador. Through ConTextos, Montoya

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 11 Education Programs

World Learning education programs partner with government agencies, educational institutions, and communities to create new economic opportunities, strengthen citizen engagement, and reduce inequality. Work in higher and vocational education empowers universities and training institutions to design and deliver relevant, learner-centered programs that help students achieve their maximum potential.

To meet a critical worldwide demand for English skills, World Learning provides high-quality training for English language teachers and professional development for education professionals. Programs advocating for high-quality, basic education increase children’s access to primary and secondary school to reduce poverty, improve health, prevent HIV/AIDS, and protect children from exploitative labor.

www.worldlearning.org

Clockwise from upper left: Educators work on curriculum reform n Programs offered 15 in Algeria; elementary school students are eager to learn in n Number countries where located 13 Macedonia; a teacher demonstrates trade skills in Macedonia; English teachers in Burundi share their goals.

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Organizational Capacity Building

Strong organizations help communities and societies achieve their goals. World Learning works with nongovernmental organizations, government institutions, schools, universities, and others to strengthen capacity and performance.

While World Learning custom tailors every engagement, the basic approach begins with a collaborative analysis, designed and conducted in partnership with the local organization. Projects identify capacity and performance gaps, then work together to close those gaps through tools such as technical assistance, mentoring, small grant funding, and training. Principles of partnership, sustainable impact, and accountability are paramount. www.worldlearning.org

n Active programs June 2012 16 n Countries 42 n Key funders and program partners, see page 27 Clockwise from upper left: A child has his vision screened in Vietnam; n Number of sub-recipients 147 teacher training in Burma; students receive social support in Ethiopia; n Overall revenue for international development and exchange an ethics workshop for Macedonian journalists. programs (FY12) $73.1 million World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 13 As a parent of three alumni of World Learning programs, I’ve seen the impact of the World Learning experience firsthand.

In March, I made a journey of my own to Ethiopia to see the work World Learning does to support young people in other countries. I witnessed how our education and capacity development projects share the same wonderful World Learning DNA as The Experiment and SIT, and focus on giving young people life changing experiences so they can make a difference in the world. This experience inspired me and a group of fellow travelers to create a challenge grant to support World Learning programs in Ethiopia’s schools and encourage others to give. Board Chair Roz Delori and Legasse Like us, many of the donors listed in the following pages are inspired by their World Getachew, a World Learning Ethiopia staff Learning experience or seeing the impact of these experiences in their children’s eyes. member, joined colleagues on a 2012 visit to an Ethiopian school. Whether it is the cultural immersion of The Experiment in International Living, informed field-research withSIT Study Abroad, comparative studies with International Honors Program, internationally-focused masters degrees at SIT Graduate Institute, domestic exchanges through the International Exchange Program, or community-driven development training with the International Development Program, our unique programs leave an indelible mark on participants and those around them.

On behalf of the World Learning community, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the over 3,500 donors who actively support our efforts and enable us to work toward a just world driven by engaged citizens and thriving communities. With your help, we can continue advancing leadership for the next 80 years and beyond.

—Rosamond P. Delori Chair, World Learning Board of Trustees

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World Learning Donor Report 2012

The generous support of our many President’s Leadership Circle individual, corporate, and foundation The President’s Leadership Circle donors makes possible the significant recognizes donors of $50,000 accomplishments of World Learning to $99,999. and our programs: The Experiment in Anonymous Donors (2) International Living, SIT Study Abroad, Robert and Pamela Adams International Honors Program, SIT Gradu- David and Holiday Collins ate Institute, and International Development Morelle Lasky Levine and Exchange Programs. This donor report Bill and Pam Michaelcheck John R. Padget acknowledges contributions made between Robert and Monique Schweich July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. We extend A CONTACT summer peacebuilding participant Susan West our sincerest gratitude for every generous leads a discussion. gift represented on the pages that follow. Global Ambassadors The Global Ambassadors group Cynthia Barrington ∞ We also want to collectively recognize those recognizes donors of $25,000 Ronald Conarroe donors who made gifts of up to $500 during to $49,999. William and Jean Crocker 2012. Although space limitations prevent us Allen and Elizabeth Cutler Anonymous Donors (2) from listing each of our more than 3,500 Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins Jane Condon and Kenneth G. Bartels Thomas and Elizabeth Fox donors, we are truly grateful to every donor Larry Bucher Susan Garner who has supported our work. Gifts of all Mary B. Davidson Thomas and Nora Hiatt sizes make a difference to World Learning. Linda and David Glickstein Tod and Mary Caroline Hunt Bush and Jamie Helzberg Stephen and Nita Lowey Anne and John Iskrant Joseph and Elizabeth Mandato Global Visionaries Society Stephen Juelsgaard Judith and Michael Meyers Virginia Loeb and James Sperling The Global Visionaries Society Betsy Michel Arlene and Reuben Mark recognizes donors of $100,000 and above. Sherry Lee Mueller Clare and Howard McMorris Philip and Mary Oppenheimer Jane Beamish ∞ Emilie and Douglas Ogden Marnie S. Pillsbury Rosamond and Francois Delori Marsha and Alan Paller Moss Plaine Ann and Thomas Friedman Susan and David Plimpton Ann Rosewater Barbara Grace ∞ Charles Stewart and Catarina Heil Sandy and Lew Rosewater Cheryl and Glen Lewy Leslie Weaver and Hilton Weinberg Howard G. Scott ∞ Jean Winchell ∞ Anne Wolfgang ∞ Michael Siegal and Nomi Ghez Betsy Rosewater Snyder World Learning Society Jan Solomon and Kenneth Simonson The World Learning Society recognizes Brian Stephens and Kirbie Petersen donors of $10,000 to $24,999. Nina and Patrick Wilson Richard and Anne Adler Catherine Yarnelle ∞ Key: ∞ deceased Truman Anderson

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 15 Leadership: Expanding Worldviews F. Frederic “Ric” Fouad, New York, New York International Honors Program ’84

ic Fouad first heard impulses—I have never met an IHP partici- about the International pant who did not feel passionately about Honors Program (IHP) social responsibility and the imperative to when he was a junior at build a better world. In my case, this led R to several pro bono law projects, including the University of Pennsylvania. “The list of countries where the program refugee property rights work in Sarajevo as operated made my heart race,” well as seeking reforms on behalf of at-risk Fouad recalls. “Japan, Indonesia, children at the Milton Hershey School.” India, Kenya, Egypt, Israel, and England—they had me at hello!” “Every IHP class since the program began generates the same worldview,” Fouad IHP, now part of World Learning’s SIT concludes. “Surely this is no coincidence Study Abroad, offers study in multiple and I only wish that everyone could experi- locations to provide a global compara- ence IHP. As a result, I contribute whatever

tive perspective on a single issue. Fouad I can to perpetuating and improving the Ric Fouad credits IHP with changing the studied representation and interpretation program—whether in time, use of my way he looks at the world. of culture in Japan, Bali, and India. “After home for events, or financial support. my IHP experience,” he observes, “my life was never the same.” “In a world where some erect walls and “In a world where inspire division between nations, IHP some erect walls Fouad returned to Japan the following builds bridges and forges a world com- year to become fluent in Japanese, then munity. I am grateful that this wonderful and inspire division went on to law school in the states before experience came my way, and I’m thankful between nations, settling in Japan to build an international for the opportunity to make it possible for law practice and teach at a law school others to participate as well.” IHP builds bridges in Tokyo. and forges a world

But his experience with IHP changed community.” more than his career path. “The program changed the way I look at the world, making me deeply sensitive to people and culture,” he says. “It also fueled my civic

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Sandanona Club Thomas Cowles and Rawiwan Kasetrevatin The Sandanona Club recognizes Peggy and Richard Danziger donors of $2,500 to $4,999. Sidney Davidson E. Hazel Denton Anonymous Donor (1) Susan Dial Peter Alfond A. Omiyinka Doris Eric Hall Anderson Susan Edelmann Dawn Dalgleish ∞ Fred Erisman and Patricia Longley-Erisman Jacques Delori Barbara Ferman Jane Edwards and Humphrey Tonkin Ric Fouad David and Linda Epstein Edith Fraser World Learning exchange alumnus Gabriele Geier Nancy and Richard Fryberger Dusan Dimic of Serbia. Ross and Jean Gibson Donald Gant Lisa Gurwitch Robert and Ellen Gutenstein Odyssey Club Richard Hansen and Eleanor Erickson Anne and David Hardy Timothy and Jane Hunt The Odyssey Club recognizes Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld Paul Kraske and Stacy Swann donors of $5,000 to $9,999. Van and Elizabeth Hawn Dana and Andrew Kull Matthew Hintsa Anonymous Donors (5) Ann and Michael Loeb Eric Hoffman Alice and Walter Abrams Margaret and Francis Manlove Bill and Marie Hoffman Margherita and Michael Baldwin Michele and David Mittelman Philip Hunsicker and Denise Stromme Nancy and James Better Justine Neely Phyllis and Tudor Ingersoll David Blair Teresa O’Connor and Hirotsugu Aoki Midori and Ichiro Iwano R. F. Bonewitz and L. Adriana Mark and Elizabeth Richards David and Sally Kennedy Rosado-Bonewitz Sue and Richard Tempero Marily Knieriemen Lawrence Cooley and Marina Fanning Joan and Edwin Tiffany Dorothy Koopman and Mark Eaton Robert Cosinuke and Jennifer Krier Jonathan and Amy Walker Christopher and Catherine Kramer Laurel Cox Astrid and Todd Warden Richard and Dale Levy Barbara Donnell and Scott Markus Lynn and Phil Lilienthal Margot and Eric Egan Donald and Leslie Watt Society Ryan Lorenz and Elvira Delgado Judith Ehrman Charles MacCormack and Susan Ross Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow The Donald and Leslie Watt Society recognizes donors of $1,000 to $2,499. Thomas G. MacCracken Lina Hervas John Mackie and Kathleen Ecker Allan Hodgson Anonymous Donors (3) Ralph and Sally Majak Cynthia B. Lloyd Sharon and Carl Abraham Constance and Henry McPhee Karen Maxfield Michael and Phebe Arlen Richard and Linda Melnikoff Robert Maxfield Carol Bellamy Joan Mintz and Robinson Markel Christina Monson Margaret Blevins Rome Neal Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther Melissa Bradley Anne and Scott Nickerson John and Mary Riordan Mary Brass Kathy Jones Nixon and Ted Nixon Michael Savage Linnea Bristol Maureen Orth Kristin and Paul Seeman John Burt C. Reed Parker L’Quentus Thomas Peggy Lewis Cash Jan Passion and Ellen Furnari Nancy Hamill Winter Robert and Joan Chase Jane Rotch Daniel Wright David and Joanne Corey Eric and Harriet Rothfeld

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 17 Leadership: Conflict Transformation Scholarships Larry Bucher, Baltimore, Maryland SIT Graduate Institute Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) ’06

s a social worker in The other CONTACT students were inner-city Baltimore, fascinated with the sand trays, and Bucher Larry Bucher had lots of has a standing invitation to come back A opportunities to practice annually to demonstrate the technique. conflict transformation, but he knew he could learn more. When he found “Each time I’ve been back, I found myself an intriguing ad for a three-week SIT thinking ‘How can I make it possible for graduate-level seminar in conflict more people to benefit from this pro- transformation, he quickly enrolled. gram?’” he says. “I’d learned from my “That was the first time I’d heard of parents that it was important to find ways World Learning’s CONTACT program,” to enable good things to grow, and I’m he recalls. convinced that the CONTACT program is a good thing.” Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) has provided training and Bucher left this fall for Peace Corps Larry Bucher demonstrates sand tray use for SIT developed the peacebuilding skills of service in Botswana. But not before he graduate students. students from more than 60 countries. established the International CONTACT Nearly 30 countries are represented each Peacebuilders’ Endowed Scholarship. year. “We were asked to bring something “I’ve been incredibly blessed,” Bucher “How can I make from our culture that we could share,” says reflects. “I hope people will join me in to it possible for Bucher. “I decided to bring a sand tray, support and promote this scholarship something I had been using with the kids to provide opportunities to others.” more people and families I worked with.” to benefit from Therapists use sand trays with miniature this program?” figures of people, animals, and other objects to enable their clients to express feelings and fears. “The inner-city kids I was working with could express what they were going through much more effectively through playing with the miniature figures,” he explains. “Then we could talk about it in a way we’d never been able to before.”

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Carolyn S. Rusk Betsy and Edward Schiff John and Barbara Schubert Robert and Shera Selzer Preeti Shroff-Mehta and Nikhil Mehta Brian and Keira Smith Edwin and Katharine Smith Joanne and Gary Smith Philip and Marcia Steckler Larry G. Steiner William and Coralie Stevenson Sherwin and Marjorie Stone Robert and Judith Terry Nick and Joan Thorndike Lisa and David Todd Michael and Roxanne Van Dusen Katharine and William Van Wie Timothy and Mary Volk Barry and Elsa Waxman Adam and Anne Weinberg James Wilson President and CEO Adam Weinberg joined World Learning colleagues attending a symposium, Conflict, Ann Wright-Parsons and John Sommer Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, in Kigali, Rwanda, January 2012. SIT Jonah and Ellen Zimiles Study Abroad and SIT Graduate Institute sponsored the symposium in partnership with the Center for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda. Gordon Boyce Society The Gordon Boyce Society recognizes donors of $500 to $999. Joshua Channell James Epstein Suzanne Chapman Miles Epstein and Susan George Anonymous Donors (4) Alice Childs Richard Epstein Barbara and Hector Aguirre Fayezul and Yasmin Choudhury Sarah Epstein and Joe Junkin Nuzhat Ahmad Roger Cogswell Beatriz and Alvino Fantini Anne Allen and Robert Hooper Ira Cohen William Flautt Anthony Allen and Reina Smith Melinda and Wayne Colquitt Christian and Melissa Frantz Louis and Laura Alpern Margaret and Kenneth Conrow Barbara Friedberg Charles S. Amorosino, Jr. Cheryl Lower Coonahan Clinton and Mary Gilliland Leslie and Gary Barbour Susan Corbett and Steve Kremm Edward and Julie Ginsburg William Bartels Martha Darling and Gilbert Omenn Cynthia Grubb Carl and Patti Bauer Dawn and Mark Deaton Sue Anne Gruell Laurie Black and Michael Fulton Cynthia Diller Ernest Gruenfeld ∞ Cynthia and John Bracken Roscius Doan and Virginia Warfield Ilene Gruenfeld Steven and Susan Bralove Elizabeth Dodds Mark Gudesblatt and Sharon Inkeles Kevin Brennan Jane Eisner Meloni Hallock Susan Caldwell Russell Ellis ∞ Elizabeth and Marcelo Halpern Tonya Carmien Barbara and Ostrom Enders Grafton Harper

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Leland and Ruth Phelps Annie Pichard W. Reid and Marguerite Pitts Terry Ruthrauff Manjula and Stuart Salomon Ivan Shulman Peter C. Simpson, Phd Martha and Stephen Smith Cynthia Spoon and Robert Walker Robert Stableski Gail Stennies Sandra Stone Kimberly Strathearn Edy Sucipto and Mony Nou-Sucipto Sydney Temple and Sarah Kupferberg Priscilla Toomey Catherine and Alexander Traykovski Susan and Ralph Treiman Joan and John Von Leesen Nicole Weyer An SIT Study Abroad program in The Netherlands explores international perspectives David and Betsy Wice on sexuality and gender. Ellen Wormser

Ann Harrod Catherine and Scott Lethbridge Key: ∞ deceased Megan Heister Jeffrey and Mary Lewis John and Edna Herman Hillary Lipe and Ross Bleakney World Learning Leadership Circle James and Rosejean Hinsdale Bruce Lisman Global Visionaries Olivia Hoblitzelle Anne and Jack Locascio $100,000 and above Christina Holt Eleanor and Edward MacDowell President’s Leadership Circle Jenna Jablonski Kathy Cagney Maio and Peter Maio $50,000 to $99,999 Hannelore and Konrad Jarausch Matthew Mallow and Ellen Chesler Global Ambassadors Carol and Robert Jenkins Elizabeth and Dale Meers $25,000-$49,999 Leonade Jones Sean Morris World Learning Society Judy Jordan David and Joan Murdoch $10,000 to $24,999 Benjamin Kahane Judith Mysliborski Susan Hope Kavinoky Thomas Navin Odyssey Club $5,000 to $9,999 David and Peggy Kehe Nancy Niemann Susan Kelley Takila Oku Sandanona Club Gilbert and Rebecca Kerlin Muhammad Oodally $2,500 to $4,999 Elizabeth and Andrew King Carl and Kirsten Oppenheimer Donald and Leslie Watt Society Susan and Curtis Koster Constance Packard $1,000 to $2,499 Terry Leary Frances Palen Gordon Boyce Society Allen Lecours Wendy Peck and Charles Forer $500 to $999 Katherine and David Lee Maude Pervere and Samuel Miller

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The World Learning Exchange A forum for sharing ideas, networks, and resources

ach year, thousands of The Exchange will launch in fall of 2012 emerging leaders from and will expand over the next year with more than 140 countries services that include a dynamic social participate in World and professional network; a fellows ELearning’s transformative education, programs that will provide mentoring, exchange, and development training, and seed funding to recent programs. They represent a new participants who have promising ideas generation offering innovative ideas for addressing critical global issues; and and insights into how to address the online tools that will give members of the critical issues that are shaping the World Learning community opportunities world. As World Learning alumni, to find each other and share resources, they depart with new leadership ideas, and networks. skills, community-building tools, and cross-cultural understanding— “My experience in the International Honors Program was transformational,” qualities that are essential to World Learning convened The Next Generation says World Learning Trustee and lead social change in today’s Speaks, a special conference in Istanbul in June Advancement Co-chair Tom Hiatt. interconnected world. “Nora and I have made an early 2012, to help promising youth to connect and share the challenges and opportunities of change The World Learning Exchange is a new commitment to support the launch of in transitional societies. initiative that will increase the organiza- the Exchange because we believe, as the tion’s global impact by building and number of graduates of World Learning strengthening connections among alumni increase, the Exchange will help individuals “. . . the Exchange will not only share their experiences with one and other members of the World Learning another but perhaps more importantly, community. The Exchange will blend help individuals not only aided by the multiplier effect of social real-time events and meetings and a media, work together in formal and informal share their experiences strong online presence to: alliances to transform the lives of others.” with one another but n provide support to recent participants, Judy and Bob Huret were the first donors perhaps more importantly, helping them acquire the skills, to the project. In addition to the Hiatts, resources, and networks needed aided by the multiplier Cheryl and Glen Lewy and an anonymous for success, supporter have also contributed to the effect of social media, new initiative. n provide opportunities for previous work together in formal generations of World Learning alumni Please join us to share your ideas and to invest in the current generation, and and informal alliances support for this new effort. For additional information, please contact Peter Simp- to transform the lives n position World Learning as a thought son, senior director for presidential initiatives, leader and industry leader building on of others.” at [email protected] or 80 years of expertise in the experiential by calling 202 464-8529. education field. World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 21 Commemorative Gifts

Commemorative Gifts

Gifts were made in honor of these In Honor of Mary B. Davidson Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther individuals between July 1, 2011, Anonymous Donor Philip and Mary Oppenheimer and June 30, 2012. Robert and Pamela Adams Alice Outwater Richard and Anne Adler Marnie S. Pillsbury In Honor of Robert and Pamela Adams George and Kathleen Atkinson Susan and David Plimpton Morris and Mary-Jane Rossabi Carol Bellamy Jane Rotch Linnea Bristol Carolyn S. Rusk In Honor of Joshua Ballen John Burt Robert and Monique Schweich Edward and Sharon Ballen Robert and Joan Chase Robert Soucy and Heidi Kendrick Jane Condon and Kenneth G. Bartels Richard Stollenwerck In Honor of Carol Barans Lawrence Cooley and Marina Fanning Sue and Richard Tempero Robert and Judith Terry Susan and David Plimpton William and Jean Crocker Samuel Cuddeback Joan and Edwin Tiffany Ilene Todd In Honor of Esther Barazzone Sidney Davidson Susan Davidson Alison Van Dyk Nicholas Reise Rosamond and Francois Delori Jonathan and Amy Walker Jane Edwards and Humphrey Tonkin In Honor of Faith Wilcox Barrington Russell Ellis ∞ In Honor of Rosamond Delori Cynthia Barrington ∞ Lionel Epstein and Elizabeth Streicher Marnie S. Pillsbury Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins In Honor of Nathaniel Batchelder Beatriz and Alvino Fantini In Honor of Barbara Dirks Susan and David Plimpton Thomas and Elizabeth Fox Laurie and William Perry Ann and Thomas Friedman In Honor of Carol Bellamy Robert Gannett In Honor of Lisa Gurwitch Jerold Goldberg and Donald Shaw Margaret Goodman Lorraine Hariton Lisa Gurwitch Clare and Howard McMorris Jodi Kurtis Anne and David Hardy Barbara Meislin Louise and Donald Heyneman In Honor of Henry Berinstein Shelly Porges Thomas and Nora Hiatt Lisa Stark Dennis and Joan Poster Judy and Robert Huret Phyllis and Tudor Ingersoll In Honor of Innes Hollos In Honor of Amy Casher David and Sally Kennedy and David Seibel Catherine and Scott Lethbridge Anonymous Deborah Friedman Cheryl and Glen Lewy Rayna Gillman Virginia Loeb and James Sperling In Honor of Carol Katz Brandon Goodman Sidney Lovett Lisa Gurwitch Paul and Jennifer Verbesey Stephen and Nita Lowey Charles MacCormack In Honor of Sally and David Kennedy In Honor of Bruce Daggy Joseph and Elizabeth Mandato Jane and Brian Mack Anonymous Donor Betsy Michel Axel and Anna Mundigo David and Joan Murdoch In Honor of Virginia Loeb Eunice Murphy Lisa Gurwitch

22 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Commemorative Gifts

In Honor of Stephen and Nita Lowey In Honor of Sherry Lee Mueller In Honor of Rebecca Persinger Judy and Robert Huret Robert and Pamela Adams Julian and Elsie Mason Richard and Linda Melnikoff Richard and Anne Adler George and Kathleen Atkinson In Honor of Charles Plimpton In Honor of Charlotte Mason Carol Bellamy Susan and David Plimpton Peihui Wang Margaret Buresh Robert and Joan Chase In Honor of Walter Plimpton Jane Condon and Kenneth G. Bartels In Honor of Clare McMorris Susan and David Plimpton Lawrence Cooley and Marina Fanning Robert and Pamela Adams William and Jean Crocker Richard and Anne Adler In Honor of John Reinhardt Rosamond and Francois Delori George and Kathleen Atkinson Jane Edwards and Humphrey Tonkin Sherry Lee Mueller Carol Bellamy Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins Robert and Joan Chase Lionel Epstein and Elizabeth Streicher In Honor of Sloan Schickler Jane Condon and Kenneth G. Bartels Beatriz and Alvino Fantini Lisa Gurwitch Lawrence Cooley and Marina Fanning Thomas and Elizabeth Fox William and Jean Crocker Robert Gannett In Honor of Robert and Rosamond and Francois Delori Lisa Gurwitch Monique Schweich Jane Edwards and Humphrey Tonkin Thomas and Nora Hiatt Robert and Ellen Gutenstein Lionel Epstein and Elizabeth Streicher Judy and Robert Huret Nina and Alan Myers Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins Phyllis and Tudor Ingersoll Moss Plaine Beatriz and Alvino Fantini Cheryl and Glen Lewy Susan and Ralph Treiman Thomas and Elizabeth Fox Virginia Loeb and James Sperling Robert Gannett Stephen and Nita Lowey In Honor of Hope Stevens Lisa Gurwitch Joseph and Elizabeth Mandato Thomas and Nora Hiatt Susan and David Plimpton Betsy Michel Judy and Robert Huret Axel and Anna Mundigo Phyllis and Tudor Ingersoll In Honor of Rochelle Stowe David and Joan Murdoch David and Sally Kennedy Eunice Murphy Kathleen Ried-Stowe Cheryl and Glen Lewy Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther Virginia Loeb and James Sperling Marnie S. Pillsbury In Honor of John Ungerleider Stephen and Nita Lowey Susan and David Plimpton Charles and Louise Silverberg Joseph and Elizabeth Mandato Carolyn S. Rusk Betsy Michel Caroline Schweich-Kessler and Remi Kessler In Honor of Anne Vincent Axel and Anna Mundigo Robert and Monique Schweich David and Joan Murdoch Anonymous Donor Peter C. Simpson, PhD Eunice Murphy Robert Soucy and Heidi Kendrick Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther In Honor of Adam and Anne Weinberg Sue and Richard Tempero Marnie S. Pillsbury Annie Wareck Ilene Todd Susan and David Plimpton Alison Van Dyk Carolyn S. Rusk In Honor of Evening Willis-Cash Robert and Monique Schweich In Honor of Mario Pascale Mari and Hank Mitchel Robert Soucy and Heidi Kendrick Carol Dickinson Sue and Richard Tempero In Honor of Anna Wyatt Ilene Todd Michael and Roxanne Van Dusen Sherry Lee Mueller Alison Van Dyk

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 23 Memorial Gifts

Memorial Gifts

Gifts were made in memory of these individuals between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012.

In Memory of Jeanne Ansley Frances Ansley Judith Patterson

In Memory of Gary Benson David and Sally Kennedy

In Memory of Laurie Deemer Platt and Carolyn Davis Michael Harrington Rosa and Kenneth Herst John and Linda Kennedy Vinson and Elkins LLP

In Memory of Elnora Hiatt More than 70 top young leaders from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, the United States, Rosamond and Francois Delori and Turkey attended a World Learning-sponsored forum, The Next Generation Speaks, in Istanbul in June 2012. In Memory of Rudolf Lewy Lisa Gurwitch In Memory of John Shippee In Memory of Christopher Walker In Memory of Wangari Maathai Margaret Blevins Anthony Allen and Reina Smith CodeSherpas, Inc. Judy and Robert Huret In Memory of Keith Smith Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins Sherry Lee Mueller William Gordon Roberta Rayno Joanne and Gary Smith Gregg and Anne Helvey Board of Directors and members of National In Memory of Ruth McCoy In Memory of Stanley Spector Association of Industrial and Nina McCoy Barbara Landberg Office Properties Penzance Management In Memory of Judy Mello In Memory of Mary Tweedy The Stanley-Laman Group, Ltd Sidney Lovett Margot Egan Dennis and Sandra Turner Clare and Howard McMorris C. Patrick Zilliacus In Memory of Gerald Shaia Michael Savage In Memory of Lola Washington Carol Dickinson Meredith and Jerry Jaffe

24 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Infinity Club

The Infinity Club

Anonymous Donor Roger Drexler David Kehe John Riordan Robert Adams Margaret Drucker Peggy Kehe Susan Ritz Herbert Adler Sarah Dunmeyer Sally Kennedy Louise Rose Eric Hall Anderson Lelah Dushkin Irene Kleinsinger Jane Rotch Dorothea Atwell Laurence Ebner Susan R. Klenk Marge Ryder Stephen Barefoot Karen Eckhart Sally Knapp William Sage The Infinity Club is a special group of Faith Wilcox Susan Edelmann Steve Kremm Lisa Salzman Barrington supporters who have included World Judith Ehrman Carole Kropschot Ann Schneider Carl Bauer Learning, The Experiment in International Joan Elliston Cecilia Lacks Marilyn Schwartz Randall Bollig Living, SIT Study Abroad, International Billie Embree Gordon Lankton Robert Schweich Whitford Bond Honors Program, or SIT Graduate Insti- Sarah G. Epstein Barbara Larson Ernest Van R.F. Derick Bonewitz B. Seasholes tute in their estate plans. The Infinity Club George Ewan Anne Lauriat Joan Boyce Isabel Silverman takes its name from a design of antiquity Suzanne FitzGerald Gilbert Lessenco Kathleen Brown Cleta Skovronski that symbolizes the eternal promise of the Margaret Fohl Morelle Lasky Levine Elizabeth Brownstein Irene Smith human family. This symbol also served as Nancy Fryberger Marion Levy Katherine Bryant Gary Smith the original logo for The Experiment. We Richard Fryberger Laraine Lippe Marion Bundy John Sommer have chosen this symbol to represent the Francesca Tou Pao Lor Peggy Lewis Cash Galluccio-Steele Judith Stoffer significance of people around the world Edward Lynn Joan Chase Amy Garcia Joseph Mandato Richard living together in harmony. We are deeply Stollenwerck Robert Chase Mitchell Goodman Stephanie Maull grateful to the Infinity Club members Susan Sunflower Virginia Cheney Margaret Grimes Peter May listed here, and hope their leadership Donna Svirsky Gregory Chislovsky Lisa Gurwitch Marilyn Meardon will inspire others. Masako Takada Prudence Susan Gutchess Janet Mersereau Clendenning Elizabeth Eleanor Hamric Marilyn Morris Elizabeth Conant Tannenbaum Blanche Harrison Sherry Lee Mueller Susan Corbett Robert Terry Planned Gifts: Bonnie Helms Eunice Murphy Audrae Coury Susan Terry Your World Learning Legacy Mary Heltsley Anne Nickerson Catherine Crane Priscilla Toomey Your planned gift in the form of a trust, Apphia Hensley Francesca Nicosia gift of life insurance, charitable gift annuity, William H. Crocker Judith Vore Bill Hoffman Nancy Niemann retirement plan assets, or bequest Ann Weigand Mary B. Davidson Patricia Hogan strengthens the institution’s future while Kathy Jones Nixon Sally Deitz Beth Weisberg providing substantial benefits to the donor. Stephen Howe Jackalyn Noller Rosamond P. Susan Whittlesey If you have made a planned gift to World Barbara Ingerman Roberta Owens Learning programs, but are not listed in the Delori Nancy Hamill Winter Leila Jahncke Maude Pervere Infinity Club, please contact us so that we E. Hazel Denton Ellen Wormser Laura Kaiser Marnie S. Pillsbury may recognize your generosity. Jill Dixon Elizabeth Yacubian Karen Kale Susan B. Plimpton Elizabeth Dodds Robert Youker Margery Katz Susan Post Kimberly Doren Nancy Zinner New FY 2012 Members in Bold Maurice Katz David Rein Stephan Draganis Elizabeth Zorski

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 25 Leadership: Planned Giving Susan Edelmann, New York, New York Experiment Group Leader to England, Switzerland, Denmark, and Israel ’50s and ’60s

“When you begin to get older, you “I made lasting friendships through The start thinking, ‘What am I going to Experiment that have shaped my life do with my money?’” explains significantly,” she says. “I’ve been back Susan Edelmann. “I wanted to to Switzerland about 15 times, at first to leave a legacy, to make a lasting see my co-leader and host, and later her difference in an organization I daughter—a three-year-old when we first admire.” As a result, Edelmann met—who has become a dear friend. I’m decided to name World Learning going over to celebrate her 60th birthday as a beneficiary in her will. in a few months.”

Her first involvement with World Learning “One of the things that struck me during was through The Experiment in Interna- my time as the director of the New York tional Living. “When I started college, a office was the commitment of the people friend across the hall couldn’t stop talking volunteering for The Experiment,” recalls about the wonderful experience she’d Edelmann. “They taught me that it was Susan Edelmann is the former director of had with The Experiment,” she says. important to give back, to do things well, The Experiment’s New York City regional office. “I went to an EIL camp in Brattleboro and to do things conscientiously. I’ve with a group of Swedish University tried to do that—with my time, my students discovering Vermont’s rural abilities, and now with my estate.” “They taught me that culture. We went to square dances, it was important swam in the West River, and camped,” “I think people should give to something she says. “It was wonderful.” they believe in,” says Edelmann. “For me, to give back, to do it’s World Learning.” things well, and to Edelmann’s grad school roommate turned out to be an Experiment alum do things conscien- and group leader. Then Edelmann herself tiously. I’ve tried to spent the next four summers leading groups to England, Switzerland, do that—with my Denmark, and Israel. She later became time, my abilities, director of The Experiment’s New York City regional office. and now with my estate.”

26 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Program Partners

Experiment in International Living Community Partners

The Experiment has built ongoing A Better Chance Naples World Affairs Council partnerships with leading youth mentoring Alonzo Mourning High School Navajo Preparatory School organizations and public and parochial American Association of Teachers of French Newark Conservancy Junior Rangers Program schools from all regions of the United States. Bard High School Early College New Jersey SEEDS These partnerships are key to recruiting highly motivated lower income and minority Beacon High School North Star Academy youth and individuals with disabilities. Breakthrough Collaborative Albert G. Oliver Program Bronx Institute GEAR UP Program The Opportunity Network Each local partner helps The Experiment Capital Partners for Education Pittsburgh World Affairs Council identify motivated students, works Children’s Empowerment Prep for Prep to prepare students for the rigor of Chinquapin School Project Row Houses Experiment programs, and serves as liaison with parents and guardians. Community High School REACH Prep Partners also help students raise Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Schuler Family Foundation Scholars Program additional money for program expenses. Duke Ellington High School for the Arts SEED Foundation A priority in this task is helping to maximize Eastside Prep Sponsors for Educational Opportunity the investment of scholarship resources GlassRoots Community Arts Step Up to Excellence by providing multiple opportunities for Global Kids Stuyvesant High School returning participants to apply their Experiment experience back home Goddard Riverside OPTIONS Program Summer Search Foundation and to encourage others to participate. Griffin Bridges Program Take Stock in Children High School for Global Citizenship Teak Fellowship World Learning and The Experiment are HighSight Temple University Community Collaborative honored to recognize these outstanding I Have a Dream Foundation The Urban Assembly High Schools Network partners that make it possible to enrich our programs with participation of dynamic KIPP through College Urban Prep School teenagers from Brooklyn, NY, to the Llano Grande Community Development Wight Foundation Navajo Nation in Arizona. Liberty LEADS Women of Tomorrow Minds Matter International Development and Exchange Program Partners

Government Donors Hummer Tuttle Foundation Conservation International Foundation United States Agency for ICF Macro International Development Research and Projects Centre International Development—USAID Massachusetts Immigrant Food for the Hungry US Department of Labor Refugee Advocacy Coalition Handicap International US Department of State Save the Children Helen Keller International US Embassies US Centers for Disease Control International Rescue Committee World Bank US Civilian Research and International Youth Foundation Development Foundation Medical Care Development International Primary Partners Yasar University Population Services International Amideast Project Harmony Council of American Overseas Selected Other Partners Public Health Institute Research Centers Africare Tigray Development Association Creative Associates American Councils for International Education Tulsa Global Alliance FedEx Catholic Relief Services World Relief Holyoke Public Schools, Childfund International World Vision Holyoke, Massachusetts Child Sight Foundation World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 27 Leadership: Raising Scholarship Funds L’Quentus Thomas, New Albany, Ohio Experimenter to Brazil ’91 and Kenya ’92; Group Leader, Kenya ’00

’Quentus Thomas had a life- After receiving his MBA from NYU Stern changing conversation with School of Business, Thomas worked in his guidance counselor during finance in New York and served as a his freshman year in high trustee of Newark’s North Star Academy, L where he met students like himself: school. “I wasn’t doing well in school at the time,” Thomas recalls. “And she students who would benefit from The told me, ‘Find something you want to Experiment experience, but whose do this summer and no matter what it families couldn’t afford the program. is, I’ll help you make it happen.’” “I called Tony Allen [Experiment Thomas chose international travel. “I had co-director] and suggested that we lived in Brooklyn all my life, and to that start sending North Star students on point the only place I’d ever really been Outbound Ambassador Scholarships,” was to visit my family in North Carolina,” Thomas says. he explains. Allen responded with a challenge: if L’Quentus Thomas helped fund Outbound Thomas could raise scholarship funds, Ambassador Scholarships for students at His counselor fulfilled her promise then the North Star program would have Newark’s North Star Academy. through The Experiment in International legs. Undaunted, Thomas began calling Living’s Outbound Ambassador Scholar- friends. “There’s only so much one per- ship program. Thomas couldn’t believe it. “It’s something son can give,” he explains. “But if I could “My family could never have afforded get a number of people to contribute, we you want others this,” he says. “It was the scholarship could really make a difference.” that made this possible for me.” to be able to Asked about the challenges of asking experience.” He opted to go to Brazil. “It was other- friends to donate, Thomas responds: worldly to me,” Thomas notes. “I couldn’t “These are the easiest conversations I’ve help but be open to new things and learn ever had. It’s a pretty easy sell for those from those around me.” The following who have been on an Experiment. It’s year, Thomas was an Experimenter to something you want others to be able Kenya, where he later returned as a to experience.” group leader. Scholarship funds given and raised by L’Quentus Thomas make it possible for four to six North Star students to become Experimenters each summer.

28 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Organizations

Corporations, Foundations, and Other Organizations

A growing number of foundations, Capital Communications Group, LLC Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund corporations, and organizations are Capital Group The Finney Foundation Inc. providing funding for World Learning Charitable Foundation First Parish Unitarian Universalist programs. These commitments reflect CDW First Run Video an increasing interest in our efforts to Frances Chapin Foundation Renee B. Fisher Foundation, Inc. provide education, exchange, and Charitable Flex Fund development programs that empower Flora Family Foundation people and strengthen communities. ChevronTexaco Nathan Fluegelman Memorial Chicago Tribune Foundation Patty Foresman Foundation Anonymous Donors (8) Alice G. Childs Trust Freddie Mac Foundation Abbott Laboratories Fund Chinese American Educational Exchange Law Offices of Stanley N. Freedman Matching Grant Plan Chroma Technologies Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Agoun Consulting LLC Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Family Foundation Barbara Aguirre Trust CIT Group, Inc. Gant Family Foundation AIDS Project of Southern Vermont The Coca-Cola Foundation Garfield Foundation Ainsworth Living Trust CodeSherpas Inc. The Gause Foundation Alexander & Baldwin Foundation Howard P. Colhoun Family Fund Giving Assets Inc. The Peter Alfond Foundation Ann B. Collier Trust Susan K. Gleeksman Revocable Trust American International Group, Inc. Robert D. Collins Fund Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Amy’s Bakery Arts Cafe Colonial Motel & Spa Google, Inc. AT&T United Way Employee Giving Campaign Combined Federal Campaign The Gordon Building Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at Community Foundation of Barbara Grace Charitable Trust the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving the Chattahoochee Valley Inc. Grant Thornton, LLP Carl T. Bauer Trust The Community Foundation Great Grandmother Fund of the David Behrend, M. Ed for Greater Atlanta Vermont Community Foundation Career Planning Services Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Benchview Place Community Foundation for GreenPoint Group Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont the National Capital Region Clementine W. Gregory Trust G. K. Bluh Nominee Trust Richard Riley Conarroe Foundation Robert G. and Ellen S. Gutenstein Family Boeing Company Dammann Fund Foundation, Inc. Braeside Foundation Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation Hadley Racing Products Inc. Brattleboro Bowl The Rita Mary Des Armier Trust Hamill Family Foundation Brattleboro Collision Center, Inc. Henry L. and Grace Doherty Hassenfeld Foundation Charitable Foundation, Inc. Brattleboro Development Credit Corp The Heister Family Charitable Fund Dollar Bank Foundation Brattleboro Food Co-op Herbst Family Foundation Stannard and Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust Brattleboro Retreat Herrmann Family Charitable Foundation Barbara S. Dwyer, CPA Brattleboro Subaru William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Harry Edison Foundation Stuart Brown Custom Construction, Inc. Hirsch-Schwartz Foundation Russell W. Ellis Trust Agreement Brownington Foundation George Hopper Charitable Lead Annuity Sarah G. Epstein Revocable Trust Brown-Monson Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Everyone’s Books Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation IBM Corporation Expaticore Services LLC ImpactAssets Fred J. Fechheimer Revocable Trust

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Organizations

Leadership: Scholarship Support for Vermont Students Merchants Bank Experiment in International Living Scholarship

his past summer four In announcing the scholarship, World Vermont high school Learning President and CEO Adam students were able to Weinberg noted that “this generous participate in The Experiment scholarship from Merchants Bank will Tin International Living thanks to a new help World Learning provide Vermont’s scholarship provided by Merchants next generation of leaders with the global Bank. The scholarship enabled Meyru literacy they need to flourish, ultimately Bhanti to travel to Turkey, Maeve benefitting our community.” Burke to Ecuador, Willow Holschuh to France, and Ashley Palmisano Willow Holschuh, who received a to Costa Rica. scholarship to spend six weeks in France with The Experiment’s theater program, Merchants Bank, which is Vermont’s only wrote in her post-experience essay: independent statewide community bank, “Although I was appreciative even before is also World Learning’s bank of record, I went to France, I feel more so now that Merchants Bank Corporate Banking Division Vice and was looking for a way to enable I’ve been there. I realize that not every- President Pat Mangan, left, and Community Banking Vermont students to participate in The one gets to have such a wonderful and Manager Pam Matweecha, right, join Experimenters Experiment. “We’re delighted to be life-changing experience as I’ve had this Ashley Palmisano, Meyru Bhanti, Maeve Burke, and partnering with World Learning,” says summer. The Experiment, the French Willow Holschuh for a welcome back event on World Michael Tuttle, President and CEO at people, and the country have made me a Learning’s Vermont campus. Merchants. “We believe that Vermont’s new and better person, and for that I will future leaders will require a depth of always be grateful.” understanding about our planet that only “We believe that programs like The Experiment can offer. Vermont’s future Our aim is to assure that high potential leaders will require Vermont scholars of modest means are able to benefit from this unique a depth of under- opportunity.” standing about our planet that only programs like The Experiment can offer.”

30 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Organizations (continued)

The Incurable Collector Morrow & Associates Shear Designs Hair Studio International Reading Association MSS Consulting and Cardiology Silicon Valley Community Foundation Margo R. Janke Revocable Trust Med Services Sodexo Janoski Investment Advisory Svs LLC NAIOP Sommerville Family Trust Jewish Communal Fund National Center for Employee Ownership The Stanley-Laman Group, Ltd Jewish Community Endowment Fund Network for Good Amy Plant Statter Foundation Jewish Community Foundation of Metrowest New York Community Trust Philip and Marcia Steckler 1998 Charitable New Jersey Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation Lead Trust Jewish Endowment Foundation Walter Niemasik & Julie Kaufman Trust Stepping Stones Childcare Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies The Kathryn Jones Nixon and Theodore E. Stern & Jacobs, Inc. J.W. Johnson Family Charitable Trust Nixon Family Foundation Stettenheim Foundation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies North End Butchers Stonehenge Capital Company Stephen G. Juelsgaard Trust North Ridge Foundation Stonewall Farm JustGive Northern Trust Company Stuart Family Foundation Kearns Living Trust G. Nunes & C. Nunes Charitable Trust Studio Main KeyBank National Association P&G Fund Matching Gift Program Peter S. and Donna V. Svirsky Trust KPMG LLP C. Reed Parker Trust The Teal Foundation Kresge Foundation Edwin C. Peck, Jr., M.D. Three Rivers Systems KW Video Production Peco Foundation Tides Center Latchis Corporation Penzance Management Transition to Parenthood, P.S. John S. and Florence G. PNC Advisors Tulsa Community Foundation Lawrence Foundation, Inc. Jean and Henry Pollak Fund, Inc. Turn It Up Lawton Dry Cleaners John and Martha Prince Revocable Trust Turpin Foundation Karen J. Leo, M.D. Prudential Foundation Anne Rippy Turtle Trust of 2010 M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLC Putnam Foundation Twilight Tea Lounge Lowey Foundation The Richards Group and the Richards and A. L. Tyler & Sons Inc. The Lydia Group Taggard Families United Nations-Minustah Mac’s Barber Shop R.M. Richardson, DMD, MD, PL United Way California Capital Region David S. Madsen Living Trust The Dorothy & Jonathan Rintels United Way of Long Island Mailrite, Inc. Charitable Foundation United Way of Rhode Island Mako Foundation Law Office of Andrew M. Romano United Way of Tucson The Maple Tree Fund Rose Community Foundation Friends of University Academy Marina Restaurant & Catering Bernard Rothfeld Children’s Foundation US Business Interiors Marpat Foundation, Inc. RPA, Inc. Valicenti Advisory Services S. & L. Marx Foundation San Damiano Daily Giving Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Merchants Bank The School Fund The Velsey Family Trust Meyers Charitable Family Fund The John D. Schubert Trust Verizon Foundation Microsoft Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Vermont Academy The Midvale Foundation R. J. Schweich and M. Schweich Charitable Viator International Lead Annuity Trust Milne Travel Vinson and Elkins LLP Schwery Farms The Minneapolis Foundation Visa Givingstation The Seattle Foundation Mocha Joe’s Dewitt Wallace Youth Travel Enrichment Fund Seperate Property Trust Monroe County Education Foundation The Wallace Foundation Service Guild of Covington Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact The Walsh Family Trust Funding Trust, Inc. Marion Seymour Revocable Trust

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 31 Organizations (continued)

Washington Marriott Hotel Weaver Family Private Foundation Wharton Graduate Association Julia E. Wilkerson Trust The Williams Companies, Inc. Woodlawn Foundation Works Bakery Cafe Norman A Wulf Living Trust YBS Investments LLC

An Experimenter makes new friends in China.

Matching Gift Companies

Many corporations match the donations Abbott Laboratories Fund Google, Inc their employees, employees’ spouses, Matching Grant Plan Hadley Racing Products Inc. Alexander & Baldwin Foundation retirees, directors, and board members William and Flora Hewlett Foundation American International Group, Inc IBM Corporation make to charitable organizations. If your gift Boeing Company Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies qualifies for a corporate match, the value Capital Group Charitable Foundation Kresge Foundation of your gift may be doubled or even tripled. CDW Microsoft The following is a list of companies that ChevronTexaco P&G Fund Matching Gift Program provided matching gifts to World Learning Chicago Tribune Foundation Prudential Foundation donors during the 2012 fiscal year. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Stonehenge Capital Company CIT Group, Inc Verizon Foundation The Coca-Cola Foundation Visa Givingstation Dollar Bank Foundation The Wallace Foundation Flora Family Foundation The Williams Companies, Inc. Freddie Mac Foundation

To find out if your company matches gifts, please contact your human resources department, or call the World Learning Office of Advancement at 802 258-3173.

32 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Endowed Funds

World Learning Endowed Funds

Below is a selection of endowed funds Sarah G. Epstein and Lionel C. Epstein Reitemeyer Memorial Fund established by our generous donors. Family Fund Retained Earning Fund Endowments are a perpetual source of Experiment Scholarship Fund for Western Rosado-Bonewitz Scholarship Fund funding that benefit every aspect of the Pennsylvania Students Sargent Memorial Fund organization. World Learning is committed Clarence Falk Fund Robert J. Schweich Minority Fund to maximizing the impact of these funds Fenelon Scholarship Fund John and Lawrence Shaw Macy Fund for today and for generations to come. Founders Fund Sheridan County Maxine World Learning has also received many Sarah B. and Clarence J. Gamble Torbert Memorial EIL Scholarship Fund non-endowed restricted funds that support Fellowship Fund Shohl Fund scholarships, fellowships, and our programs. Esther Gillen Fund SIT 2003 Fund For more information about creating an Greater Boston Fund SIT One World Scholarship endowed or restricted fund, please Gutow Fund Southwest Connecticut contact the Office of Advancement Marian Upton Harris Fund Outbound Ambassador Fund at 802 258-3173. Helzberg Family Fund Frederic R. Stettenheim Fund Houston International Fund Student Academic Scholarship Fund The Sam Achziger Memorial Scholarship Fund International CONTACT Peacebuilders’ Libby Sussler Memorial Fund Cornelia Aldis Fund Endowed Scholarship Fund The Kitty and John Walker Fund Marie Madeleine Aldis Fund Edward G. Janeway International Scholarship The Walker Family Fund The Anderson Family Fund Kennedy Family Fund John A. Wallace Fund Sally Bragg Baker Fund Koide Family Fund Watt Legacy Faith Wilcox Barrington Fund Richard Koscinski Memorial Fund Leslie Watt Fund Karen Stromgren Blanchard L.G. Fund Scholarship Fund For Women Winchell Endowed Scholarship Fund Lanvin/Charles of the Ritz Fund Delia Bloom Fund Margretta Winters Fund Lasky/Levine EIL Scholarships F. Gordon Boyce Fund Nathaniel T. Winthrop Fund Lasky/Levine SSA Scholarships Sandra Hannum Carlton Fund WLID 2003 Fund Jonathan Lax Memorial Fund Robert Cash Memorial Fund The Lee Workum Fund Susan Donna Lessenco Fund Robert A. Childs Memorial Fund World Learning Peace Fund Lewy Family Global Health Scholars Program William St. Clair & Margaret Merle-Smith John Wright Minority Fund Living Trust Fund Childs Fund Stephen and Nita Lowey World Ray Clark Scholarship for Citizen Award Fund Excellence in Teaching Ainsley Ross MacCormack Development Fund Compton Fellowship Fund MacCormack Development Fund Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Scholarship Fund Vito and Marianne Mandato Davidson Family Fund Community Ambassador Award Davidson II Fund MAT 3 Fund Cleveland Dodge Environment Studies Fund McMorris SIT International Scholarships East West Fund Moser Africa Scholarship Fund Egypt ’63 Scholarship Fund Brian Moss Memorial Scholarship Fund EIL 2003 Fund The Sherry Mueller Scholarship Fund EIL Initiative Fund Rudy Martinez Pino Ellsworth Fund Memorial Scholarship Fund

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 33 Trustees

Board of Trustees

Rosamond P. Delori Thomas H. Fox Paul S. Muther Executive Team Board Chair Washington, DC Toronto, Ont., Canada Adam S. Weinberg Lincoln, Mass. IHP Alumnus ’66; Experiment Phyllis Watt Ingersoll President and Chief Executive SIT Study Abroad Parent Parent ’07, ’10 Trustee Emerita Officer, World Learning ’92, ’95, ’99, ’01, ’03 Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. Jean Bosco Niyonzima President, SIT Robert W. Adams Experimenter to Mexico ’46, Program Trustee Experiment Parent Vice Chair Guatemala ’47, Austria ’49; Boston, Mass., and ’10, ’12 Lexington, Mass. Germany ’50, Yugoslavia ’51; Zwedru, Liberia Nancy Rowden Brock Experimenter to Italy ’58; Experiment Leader ’56; CONTACT Alumnus ’08; Current Senior Vice President and Experiment Parent ’86 Experiment Parent ’79, ’81, ’85 Student, SIT Graduate Institute Chief Financial Officer Dana Kull Paul S. Kraske Emilie M. Ogden Ross Gibson Vice Chair Bethesda, Md. Mill Valley, Calif. Senior Vice President, Hyde Park, Mass. Experimenter to Switzerland ’79; Virginia A. Loeb Global Human Resources Experiment Parent ’10 Cambridge, Mass. Lisa Gurwitch Experimenter to France ’70 Susan B. Plimpton Richard J. Adler Senior Vice President, Chair Emerita Greenwich, Conn. Stephen Lowey Institutional Advancement Minneapolis, Minn. SIT Study Abroad Parent ’06 Chair Emeritus and External Relations Experimenter to Sweden ’63; Rye, N.Y. Experimenter to Mexico Kenneth G. Bartels MA, SIT Graduate Institute ’72; Experimenter to France ’52; ’74 and Spain ’75 Greenwich, Conn. Experiment Leader ’68; Experiment Leader ’57 Experimenter to India ’68; Experiment Parent ’00; Carol Jenkins Experiment Parent ’02 Charles F. MacCormack SIT Study Abroad Parent ’01; Senior Vice President, Easton, Conn. Robert C. Chase Trustee ’98–’10, Trustee Emerita, International Development Experiment Leader ’65; Alexandria, Va. ’11–present and Exchange Programs Experiment Parent ’05 SIT Study Abroad Parent ’87 Brian B. Stephens John Lucas Judith Brown Meyers Fayezul H. Choudhury Arlington, Va. Senior Vice President, San Francisco, Calif. Academic Programs Chevy Chase, Md. Charles F. Stewart Betsy S. Michel SIT Graduate Institute ’94 Lawrence Cooley London, United Kingdom Gladstone, N.J. Arlington, Va. Experimenter to Japan ’62 Sue A. Tempero International Honors Program Indianapolis, Ind. (IHP) ’68; SIT Study Abroad David A. Murdoch Experiment Leader ’65 Parent ’07, IHP Parent ’08 Chair Emeritus

Pittsburgh, Pa. Adam S. Weinberg Robert L. Cosinuke Ex-Officio Experimenter to Germany ’61; Belmont, Mass. Brattleboro, Vt. Experiment Parent ’96, ’00 Experiment Parent ’09 Experiment Parent ’10, ’12 Allen B. Cutler New York, N.Y. Jane Edwards New Haven, Conn. Experiment Parent ’96 as of June 30, 2012

34 World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 Operating Revenues Operating Expenses and Other Support Financials

Statement of Financial Position June 30, 2012 2012 Total

Assets

Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,082,263 Accounts and notes receivable, net 6,070,697 Consolidated Statement of Activities Contributions receivable, net 798,408 Year Ended June 30, 2012 2012 Total Percentages Prepaid expenses 4,525,111

Other assets 614,968 Operating Revenues Investments 43,126,382 and Other Support Property, plant and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation 6,666,591 Net tuition and program fees $53,594,459 40.4% Grants and contracts 72,625,410 54.7% Total assets 64,884,420 Investment income availed under spending policy 2,027,498 1.5% Contributions 2,868,096 2.2% Liabilities and Net Assets Auxiliary services 949,392 0.7% Other revenue 591,032 0.4% Liabilities Accounts payable $ 2,733,444 Total operating revenues Advance payments and and other support $132,655,887 100.00% deferred revenue 6,482,259 Borrowings under line of credit 2,355,570 Notes payable 501,144 Operating Expenses Capital lease obligations 224,119 Federal loan program advances 878,072 Education and general $42,097,605 32.2% Grants and contracts 72,664,649 55.5% Total liabilities 13,174,608 Auxiliary services 1,048,875 0.8% General support 12,800,179 9.8% Net Assets Operations reengineering 2,178,098 1.7% Unrestricted 10,224,466 Interest on indebtedness 58,557 0.0% Temporarily restricted 11,002,858 Other 9,630 0.0% Permanently restricted 30,482,488

Total net assets 51,709,812 Total operating expense $130,857,593 100.00%

Total liabilities and net assets $ 64,884,420 Change in net assets from operations $1,798,294

Endowment Funds (as of June 30, 2012) $43.1 Million

World Learning Annual/Donor Report 2011–2012 35 The World Learning Distinguished Global Citizen Achievement Award

In February 2012, World Learning held in the historic Union Station in celebrated its Vermont roots and Washington, DC. The event, chaired the global impact of its programs by by former trustee Sherry Mueller, presenting the 2012 Distinguished kicked off World Learning’s Global Citizen Achievement Award 80th year of advancing leadership to U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy through education, exchange, in recognition of his distinguished and development programs in career and his commitment to more than 60 countries. human rights. More than 300 peo- ple, including nearly a dozen current “I am only one of many Vermonters— and past members of Congress, in and out of government—who attended the awards ceremony take great pride in World Learning’s Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Secretary of State 1997–2001, history and work and have sup- will receive the 2013 Global Distinguished Citizen ported its mission,” said Leahy Achievement Award. Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. First presented in 2011, the World in his acceptance speech. He Learning Distinguished Global mentioned World Learning’s roles Citizen Achievement Award in administering a portion of the recognizes exceptional Leahy War Victims Fund, helping individuals who: train early Peace Corps volunteers, and training leaders such as U.S. n have a record of outstanding Ambassador to Haiti Pamela White, service in their chosen interna- an SIT Graduate Institute alumna. tional careers or avocations, The 2013 World Learning n embody and promote the Distinguished Global Citizen values reflected in the mission Achievement Award will be of World Learning, presented in February 2013 to Former U.S. Secretary of State, n demonstrate originality and Madeleine K. Albright. She is Andrew Cunningham, an alumnus of World Learning’s creativity in their endeavors to currently chair of both Albright Experiment in International Living program, from Rutland, address global challenges, Stonebridge Group, a global Vermont, presented Sen. Leahy with the award, alongside 2011 winner former Senator Harris Wofford and World n promote and encourage strategy firm, and Albright Capital Learning President and CEO Adam Weinberg. international understanding Management LLC, an investment and cooperation among advisory firm focused on emerging diverse stakeholders. markets. The event will be chaired by World Learning Board Chair Emeritus Stephen Lowey.

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