• Academy for Educational Development (3rd year as an Open World host) – is committed to solving critical social problems throughout the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis and innovative program design and management. http://www.aed.org/.
• American International Health Alliance (3rd year) – advances global health by mobilizing communities to better address health care priorities while improving productivity and quality of care. http://www.aiha.com/index.jsp.
• American University – Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (3rd year) – is devoted to teaching, research, training and formulating policy advice on transnational crime, corruption and terrorism. http://www.american.edu/traccc.
• American University – Women & Politics Institute (3rd year) – strives to enhance women’s leadership through workshops and fostering the interaction of students with young women leaders. http://www.american.edu/oconnor/wandp.html.
• Center for Safe Energy (1st year) – facilitates programs concerning sustainable energy development, as well as programs involving women’s leadership and civil rights issues. http://www.centerforsafeenergy.org.
• CONNECT/US-RUSSIA (2nd year) – promotes a more humane and peaceful world through training seminars for government officials, business internships, and domestic violence prevention and intervention programs. http://www.connectusrussia.org.
• Duke University – DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism (2nd year) – supports a policy of democratic media around the globe through scholarly research and education. http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/dewitt/about/.
• Friendship Force International (5th year) – a 1992 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, works to create an environment where individual friendship can be established across the international barriers that separate people. http://www.friendshipforce.org/.
• International Institute of the Graduate School, USDA (4th year) – promotes professional learning and international cooperation. http://grad.usda.gov/.
• ISAR: Resources for Environmental Activists (1st year) – supports collaborative resolutions to the environmental threats faced by many communities throughout the former Soviet Union. http://www.isar.org/.
• Magee Womancare International (1st year) – administers the United Nations’ largest health outreach program in Russia, taking on the challenge of providing refugees in and around Moscow with family planning services, domestic violence awareness, and improved health care. http://www.magee.edu/international/international1.html.
• Meridian International Center (4th year) – promotes international understanding through the exchange of people, ideas, and the arts. http://www.meridian.org.
• National Peace Foundation (4th year) – works to strengthen the foundations for peace building, peace education and conflict resolution by promoting democratic justice. http://www.nationalpeace.org.
• Rotary International (6th year) – provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. http://www.rotary.org.
• Russian American Rule of Law Consortium (5th year, formerly hosted as the Vermont Karelia Rule of Law Project) – matches the legal communities of seven Russian regions with seven U.S. states in order to develop the rule of law in both countries. http://www.rarolc.net.
• World Services of La Crosse, Inc. (3rd year) – conducts professional exchanges designed to improve municipal services, economic development, health, social welfare, and quality of life in targeted communities of the world. http://www.worldserviceslax.org.

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