World Partnerships 2020
  • Home
    • About
    • Mission
    • Sponsors
    • Board of Trustees
    • Chairman of the Board
    • Executive Bios
    • Media Guidelines
    • Stay In Touch
  • Connect IVLP
    • International Visitor Leadership Program
    • IVLP Partners
    • IVLP in Tampa Bay
    • IVLP Professional Program Capabilities in Tampa Bay
    • A Sample Professional Program in Tampa Bay (Florida)
    • 2021 IVLP Professional Programs
    • 2020 IVLP Professional Programs
    • 2019 IVLP Professional Programs
    • 2018 IVLP Professional Programs
    • 2017 Professional Programs
    • 2016 Professional Programs
    • 2015 Professional Programs
    • 2014 Professional Programs
    • 2013 Professional Programs
    • 2012 Professional Programs
    • 2011 Professional Programs
    • 2010 Professional Programs
    • 2009 Professional Programs
    • 2008 Professional Programs
  • Collaborate
    • World Partnerships "New Voices"
    • "New Voices" Twitter Feed
    • World Partnerships Facebook Feed
  • Educate
    • World Partnerships "Live" >
      • Economic Education on a Global Scale!
      • Enterprise Village!
      • "World Partnerships Live!" Partners
    • World Partnerships Intern Program
    • World Partnerships Intern Alumni
  • Engage
    • WP Alumni >
      • Alumni at Work
      • 2011 IVLP Gold Star Alumni
    • Vimlendu Jha, Aresty Speaker Series
    • FULBRIGHT Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar >
      • Media Release
      • Fulbright Seminar Agenda
      • Fulbright In Brief
      • Notable Fulbright Alumni
      • St. Petersburg & Tampa Bay
      • Sponsors
    • Arts & Culture Diplomacy
    • Kenya: Legislative Exchange & Economic Development Mission
    • Kosovo: Breast Cancer Awareness
  • Donate!

Connect.

World Partnerships connects people, ideas and projects that build a more peaceful, just and open world.

Picture
Picture



World Partnerships is the official US Department of State partner for hosting global leaders under the Department’s “International Visitor Leadership Program" (IVLP) in Florida’s seven-county Tampa Bay area.

The IVLP is how we connect with the World.

In 1940, Nelson Rockefeller was named the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Affairs for the American Republics. He initiated the exchange of persons program with Latin America, inviting 130 Latin American journalists to the United States. Since that time, nearly 200,000 International Visitors have engaged with Americans through the IVLP. Each year, almost 5,000 International Visitors come to the United States. At any given point during the year, approximately 250 International Visitors are in the United States. More than 35 current and 300 former Chiefs of State or Heads of Government are IVLP alumni. Watch the video below to learn more about the history of the IVLP program through a special message from former Secretary of State John Kerry.

For 80 years, the International Visitor Leadership Program has been recognized as the “crown jewel” of United States public diplomacy. Its 93 nationwide visitor councils were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. Today, one-fourth of the United Nations member states have an IVLP alumnus as head of state or government.  American ambassadors call the IVLP “the most important foreign policy tool the US has at its disposal.”

These visitors are a unique high-level network of global leaders: They are hand-selected by the American Embassy in their country, and personally invited to the United States by the US Ambassador to learn who America is, and to see how we Americans live, work, learn, and play. This network represents government, business, academia, the media, the arts, and NGOs. They come from developed nations, emerging democracies and transitional states. World Partnerships creates professional programs, cultural activities and social networking for these leaders with their Tampa Bay counterparts. Since its founding over 19 years ago, World Partnerships has brought over 5,000 “New Generation” leaders from more than 190 countries to the Tampa Bay region. 


Click here to learn more about the IVLP and World Partnerships programs.

The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)

World Partnerships

Home
Connect
Collaborate
Educate
Engage
Donate
SUPPORT WORLD PARTNERSHIPS!

Social Media

World Partnerships, Inc. is a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization (FEIN: 59-3651710) with a worldwide mission for educational, cultural, commercial and professional exchange for current and emerging global leaders. World Partnerships is the official Tampa Bay regional partner of the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs “International Visitor Leadership Program" (IVLP). Contributions to World Partnerships are deductible as charitable donations for Federal income tax purposes.

World Partnerships © 2020 / 547 First Street South, Suite 200, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 / mailto:meupton@worldpartnerships.org

Powered by +0 Designs