1. Gain Cultural Competency: Learn Japanese in Japan!

   

   Grace Meng, a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) alumna, tells us about the CLS program enhanced her career in nursing.

2. Alumnae as Economic Multipliers: Global Women Entrepreneurs Return to the United States

   This week, 41 women entrepreneurs from around the world arrived in Washington, D.C. to begin their International Visitor Leadership Program(IVLP), “Women Entrepreneurs: Alumni as Economic Multipliers.”

3. Kenya on My Mind: An Interview with Mayor Heidi Davison

   

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

4. Celebrating the Arts and Cultural Diplomacy

   This month the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is celebrating the importance of cultural diplomacy!

5. Sports Diplomacy Celebrates Soccer Diplomacy at the 2014 World Cup

   

   Sports Diplomacy sponsors soccer programs all over the world that help bring people from different cultures together on the field to share their love of the beautiful game.

6. International Women of Courage Visit the United States

   

   Every year awardees of the International Women of Courage Award embark on a ten day International Visitor Leadership Program.

7. Freedom's Boombox ~ American Music Abroad Tour to Uganda and Madagascar

   

   Freedom's Boombox is an acapella group touring Uganda and Madagascar as not only musical performers, but also cultural ambassadors through the American Music Abroad program.

8. Office of Citizen Exchanges

   The Office of Citizen Exchanges gives American and foreign participants the opportunity to gain knowledge and share their expertise and experience through professional, youth, cultural, and sports exchange programs.

9. Grants Division

   The mission of the Grants Division (ECA-IIP/EX/G) is to effectively plan, direct, and execute by grant or cooperative agreement, or other appropriate means, assistance instruments for the Department's educational and cultural exchange programs.

10. History and Mission of ECA

    As part of America’s larger story of respect for-- and interest in-- all cultures and faiths, ECA’s range of programs exist to encourage mutual understanding as well as international, educational and cultural exchange, and leadership development.

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