Open World Grantee Organizations
The Open World Leadership Center awards grants to a wide range of U.S.-based nonprofit and governmental organizations to host Open World delegations. The Center selects its host organizations annually through a competitive grants process conducted according to federal guidelines. All successful candidates have expertise in implementing professionally oriented foreign exchange programs. Some grantees carry out Open World visits themselves or through their local affiliates; others develop and oversee a network of local organizations to provide this hosting. These local organizations include civic associations, academic institutions and centers, and nonprofit international training providers.
Local Hosts
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Turkmen delegates meet at the Institute of American Indian Arts on March 3 with Hayes Lewis (center, in blue jeans), director of the Institute's Center for Lifelong Education, and Tom Maguire (far left) of the Santa Fe Arts Commission. | Santa Fe Opens Doors to Turkmeni Arts Managers
SANTA FE, NM – Three delegates from Turkmenistan hosted by the Santa Fe Council on International Relations Feb. 25–March 9 are working to draw world attention to their long-isolated country’s ancient crafts of carpet-making, silk weaving, and embroidery, and to its new generation of painters. read more
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Maryland First Lady and state judge Catherine Curran O’Malley (far left) hosts a Russian rule of law delegation at the governor’s residence in Annapolis during a 2007 Open World exchange. | First Lady and Judge Katie O'Malley Goes the Extra Mile
Annapolis, MD — The Maryland governor’s residence might seem like an unlikely setting for a working dinner for Russian jurists, but state First Lady Catherine Curran O’Malley doubles as a Baltimore District Court judge—and in that capacity serves on the steering committee of one of the Center’s longtime local host organizations, the Maryland/Leningrad Region Rule of Law Partnership read more
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