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A History of Successful Partnership
American Councils is firmly committed to the development of public-private partnerships and has enjoyed collaborative relationships with government agencies and private organizations since the 1970's. While American Councils maintains extensive working agreements with certain agencies (i.e. the Departments of State and Education and the US Library of Congress), we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality programs and services to all our partners. These include projects administered on behalf of the Department of Defense, the US Agency for International Development, the government of Kazakhstan, and the Carnegie Corporation. Our collaborative relationships also include work on projects financed by multilateral development banks.
Our mission enables us, in cooperation with our partners – to match our expertise in the language, culture and societies of Eurasia and Eastern Europe, with the policy objectives and goals of various agencies and organizations in the complementary arenas of foreign policy, education and national security.
Consequently, we are able to:
- Administer scholarship support through competitive grants to US students and scholars seeking language training in Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and other languages of the region (funded by various partners including the Department of State)
- Recruit and screen the best qualified high schools students in Eurasia from a pool of more than 50,000 annually to participate in the largest federally supported US youth exchange program (funded by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs)
- Develop and disseminate online, interactive foreign language materials for training Americans in the languages of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including Russian, Azeri, Chechen, Kazakh, Turkmen, Uzbek and other languages in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College, Indiana University, the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland (with funding by the National Security Education Program of the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Education)
- Support top-flight professional and doctoral degree students from Eurasia studying at highly competitive US graduate schools in diverse fields like business administration, political science, public health and environmental studies (funded by various partners, including the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the government of Kazakhstan)
- Build new bridges of excellence and scholarship between academic faculties in the US and those in Eurasia and Southeastern Europe through one-on-one placements and scholarship support to junior and senior faculty members (funded by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Humanities)
We are often approached to combine our special expertise and our unique approach to develop new programs attractive to potential partners and funders. Click below for examples of projects administered for various kinds of funders:
