Public Partners
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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State

The American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), one of the US State Department’s longest running Traditional Public-Private Partners (TPPP), receives an annual competitive grant from the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, with direct program oversight from the Office of Citizen Exchanges/Youth Division, to conduct exchanges in every region of the world.  ACYPL has received annual grants from the Department of State and the former US Information Agency since the early 1970’s.  Its current funding is authorized under the applicable provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (PL 87-256), as amended.

State Department funding allows ACYPL to conduct bipartisan, bilateral educational exchanges for up to 30 countries each calendar year. Countries involved in the exchanges are chosen annually based on ongoing consolation between ACYPL, its international partners, the Department of State, and its missions overseas.

Please visit http://exchanges.state.gov/ for more information.
 

The United States Agency for International Development

The American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) has also worked closely with USAID on a number of region-specific programs, most notably a series of annual seminars for youth in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Beginning in 2004, ACYPL, with the support of USAID, developed specialized seminars focusing on young leaders in the region involving hands-on leadership development exercises, workshops, training-of-trainers, the creation of country action-plans, and media training.

In 2006 and as a result of its work with USAID, the National Democratic Institute, and the International Republican Institute, ACYPL created the website www.democraticyouth.net for seminar participants and other activist youths in the region to communicate across borders and share best-practices, resources, and information on their activities at home. The site is now being administered by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, a non-governmental youth organization in the region.

In addition, USAID has provided funding for ACYPL's work with the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). For more information about ACYPL's involvement with HDAC, please click here.

Support from USAID has helped to further ACYPL’s mission of cultivating relationships among young political leaders worldwide, raising ACYPL’s profile in Congress and expanding the number of countries in which ACYPL operates.