Partners of the Americas Legislative Fellows Program

12/17/2016

Public Policy Fellowship opportunity for LAC individuals! Deadline is on March 31, 2017.

Fellowship Opportunity Call for Application (PDF) - Deadline: March 31, 2017 Fundación Vidanta and the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International…

06/02/2016

Great to see Doudly Elius at the Partners office! Congrats on winning the Alumni Impact Award. Who will visit us next??

Look who stopped by the office to take a walk down memory lane! So great the see 2013 Doudly Elius from , who is in DC this week to attend the U.S. Department of State Pro Fellows Congress as an Alumni Impact Awardee!

03/09/2016

One of our graces the State Department's posts. Happy International Women's Day!

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10/30/2015

The Partners of the Americas 2014 Annual Report is out! Check out some of our that grace the pages of the report. :)

Inspired by President Kennedy and founded in 1964 under the Alliance for Progress, Partners of the Americas is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, non-partisan organization with international offices in Washington DC.

04/12/2015

Awesome to see U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shout out to one of our Pro Fellows Luis Alberto Santiago in his speech about and at the Forum of University Rectors at the 7th Summit of the Americas

Remarks at "Foro de Rectores de Las Americas"

03/04/2015

Congratulations to one of our , Luis Santiago for being one of the nominees for "Man of the Year" in the !! Show your support and cast your vote at http://www.hym-diariolibre.com/!

Luis was nominated for an project he developed during his fellowship in 2014 called re-Blood, which aims to address the shortage of donations in blood banks. The issue personally affected him when a very close family member suffered from an illness that required a blood transfusion yet supply was lacking. This spurred Luis to take initiative and develop a mobile platform that monitors current inventory at participating blood banks and letting registered/potential donors know when supply is low and needed.

Luis Santiago Arias Ingeniero en Sistemas, cuyo trabajo se ha enfocado en la creación de innovación global en la República Dominicana, a través de políticas que fomenten educación, innovación y tecnología. En 2014 desarrolló a reBlood, una plataforma en línea para dispositivos móviles enfocada a mos…

02/24/2015

"Exchange and fellowship programs help people to serve both their own communities, and the communities which hosted them. They bring people together to jointly implement projects... allow for cross-cultural workshops and trainings, and permit in-depth sharing of knowledge among people and organizations. While activities often take place in a host community, individuals who participate in exchange and fellowship programs often continue to serve their home communities, using the new knowledge and information from their exchange experience." And THIS is what Partners of the Americas strives to do through our many exchange programs.

Read more from our Director of Professional Leadership Exchanges on the !

We have a special saying here at Partners: It always starts with an exchange. It's the simple act of connecting the right people in the right places, but year after year (for 50 years!), we see exchanges change everything.

Here's how: http://bit.ly/1FQjwFD

02/20/2015

Partners of the Americas Fellows not only come from a range of backgrounds but also of work and interests! Read about one of our , Javier Thellaeche, a specialist from , and his fellowship experience in !

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02/18/2015

! If you missed the first Q&A, there will be another session held TODAY at 1pm EST!

Deadline is next Tuesday, February 24th so get your questions in if you haven't done so already!

At 1 pm ET today, join Team for our final Facebook Q&A. Remember, AEIF proposals at due by Noon ET on February 24! http://goo.gl/LDOv2h

02/09/2015

Partners of the Americas from , Mariana Rodriguez Saucedo learns about state government practices in through a fellowship at the State Senate. Read about her experience on the !

02/03/2015

"After the initial shock of being selected [for the Legislative Fellows Program], I began the process of working with the Partners of the Americas staff to select my host organization. It was during this time that I learned of an organization that worked precisely on the intersection of the two areas that I had been dedicating the past three years of my work to: ." Fernando Elizondo García, from

Read more on the about this match made in fellowship heaven between Fernando and his U.S. host organization, Immigration Equality