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Read. Follow. Verify.Overview of the Open World Leadership Center Program
Record date · January 1, 2017
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What This Bill Does
This document provides written testimony regarding the Open World Leadership Center, a legislative branch program that facilitates professional exchanges between emerging leaders from Eurasia and U.S. Congressional members and staff. The program aims to foster democratic values and combat anti-American disinformation by providing participants with firsthand experience of the American legislative process.
The Open World Leadership Center requests continued federal funding to maintain its exchange operations, which currently place international delegates in 47 states and 205 Congressional districts annually.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Members of Congress
Members serve on the Board of Directors and host international delegates in their offices and districts.
Eurasian emerging leaders
Participants travel to the U.S. to engage with American legislative processes and professional counterparts.
Key Facts
- The Open World Leadership Center is housed within the Legislative Branch to distinguish it from Executive Branch programs.
- The program maintains an overhead cost of 7 percent or less.
- In 2017, the program hosted delegations in 47 states and 205 Congressional districts.
- The program has a network of 27,000 alumni across Eurasia, including nearly 20,000 in the Russian Federation.
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- Over 80 percent of program participants have met with Members of Congress or their staff.
- The program set a goal to have 20 percent of participants come from legislative bodies, a target that was met with over 100 participants in one year.
- The program is governed by a Board of Directors primarily composed of Members of Congress.
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Legislative Focus
The program explicitly shifted its recruitment strategy to prioritize participants from foreign legislative bodies at the request of a Member of Congress.
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