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  1. Empowering Women and Girls Through Sport

    SportsUnited: Empowering Women Through Sports

    Empowering Women and Girls Through Sport

  2. U.S. State Department & NHL Partner for Ice Hockey Exchange with Russia

    Photo of two ice hockey participants

    The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs hosted a Russian delegation of 18 youth hockey players and their coaches, who participated in the first-ever ice hockey exchange between the two countries.

  3. UGRAD Alum Organizes Charity Run Across Ukraine

    Ugrad Alum, Andriy Maksymovych, raised over $50,000 in donations for premature infants in Ukraine

    While studying in the United States, Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) alum Andriy Maksymovych met an activist who biked across the U.S. to raise money for charity. Andriy decided to adapt the idea to raise money for premature babies in his native Ukraine.

  4. Fulbright Enrichment Seminar

    Fulbright Seminar participant, helping to create a community garden.

    Through these seminars, Fulbright foreign students develop a better understanding of contemporary U.S. life and culture, policy formulation and nationally & globally important issues.

  5. Fulbright on board The Millennial Trains Project

    Fulbright Millennial Trains Project participant, Rodrigo

    The Millennial Trains Project (MTP) leads crowd-funded transcontinental train journeys for diverse groups of young innovators to explore America's new frontiers.

  6. Sports Diplomacy Softball Envoys: A Hit in Nicaragua

    As a member of the State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports, Jessica Mendoza truly engaged in “fieldwork” by leading a softball clinic for teenage girls in Nicaragua.

    Under the Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, Olympians Jessica Mendoza and Ruby Rojas went to Nicaragua as sports envoys in February of 2013.

  7. In the Year of the Olympics, Sam Perkins and Swin Cash Travel to London

    Swin Cash shares her skills through drills with a young player from England.

    Partnering with the NBA and WNBA and working with the U.S. Embassy in London, U.S. State Department Envoys Sam Perkins and “Swin” Cash traveled to the United Kingdom for the 2012 Olympics.

  8. Empowering Women & Girls Through Sports

    Empowering Women & Girls Through Sports

    In the midst of the NCAA's March Madness, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced an international sports exchange that brought 18 teenage girl athletes and 6 female coaches from all corners of the globe to Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colorado as part of the Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative.

  9. Cal Ripken, Jr. Leads International Sports Exchange with Japan

    Cal Ripken Jr. traveled to Japan to work with kids affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

    Hall of fame baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., traveled to Japan on behalf of the Department of State to put on baseball clinics and work with kids affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

  10. Cross-Cultural Exposure: An Interview with Polly McKinney

    In Kenya, Maasai women networked with eight American women to nurture entrepreneur spirit.

    In September 2008, eight American women traveled to Kenya to develop empowerment networks with Maasai women.

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