• Civil Society and Governance
  • Civil Society and Governance Overview
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Civic Education
  • Citizen Participation
  • Advocacy
  • Democratic Governance
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Women's and Minority Rights
  • Disenfranchised Groups
• Education
  • Education Overview
  • Basic Education
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
  • Education for Vulnerable Groups
• HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS Overview
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Institutional Capacity Building
• International Visitors Exchanges
  • International Professional, Academic, and Cultural Exchanges Overview
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Professional Exchanges
  • Youth Exchanges
• Capacity Development and Training
  • Capacity Development and Training Overview
  • Participant Training
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Grant Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Community Connections

Overview

In 2005, World Learning was awarded a 5-year contract to manage the USAID Community Connections Program. The Community Connections Program is funded through USAID'S Bureau of Education Growth and Trade (EGAT)/Office of Education.

The broad public diplomacy goal of the Community Connections Program is to contribute to economic and democratic reform and to promote mutual understanding through exposure to U.S. society and personal connections with Americans and participant countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Through local community Host Organizations in the United States, men and women entrepreneurs, local government officials, legal professionals, and civil society organization leaders are provided a three-week home-stay based practical training program in the United States, tailored to their professional interests.

Recruitment and selection is carried out by World Learning and its three sub-contractor organizations with final approval provided by local USAID Missions:

• PH International (Russia, Western NIS, Caucasus)
• American Councils (Central Asia and Belarus)
• The Center for Social and Economic Development (Moldova)
• World Learning Serbia (Serbia)

US based Host Organizations are pre-qualified through an open competition conducted year round and are responsible for programming site-visits, meetings, host-family placements, local transportation, interpretation, and Experience America activities.

World Learning is currently accepting applications to pre-qualify as a Host Organization. Offerors must demonstrate experience/capacity to provide visitors with a professional hands-on experience, home-stays, and exposure to American life and culture.

• Download Request for Proposal (DOCX) 
• Download RFP Budget Template (XLS)