2024 Highlights
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Amount Pledged: $10650315
Active Grants: 49
Youth Participants: 22000
Leaders Trained: 100
Where We Work
During the Global Nomads experience, my 10th grade students applied their language skills in real-world contexts by participating in conversations, presentations, and collaborative projects with peers… This exposure broadened their perspectives, fostering a greater sense of empathy and openness. I believe this experience will have lasting effects, inspiring a deeper interest in language learning and motivating them to continue using English in diverse, authentic situations.
Virtual Exchange…
- Empowers Future Leaders
- Champions Global Citizenship
- Promotes Language Learning
- Creates New Opportunities
- Empowers Young People to Take Climate Action
- Inspires Lifelong Learning
We’re helping prepare rising generations for the workforce of tomorrow through virtual exchange programs that maximize skill development, provide real-world experience collaborating on projects that relate to their career interests, and model cross-cultural workplace settings.
We continue to measure the incredible impact of virtual exchange on participants’ understanding of the world and global competence skills. In 2024, 77% of participants reported having more confidence in their ability to have an impact in their home country and 95% reported that their program offered opportunities to engage with other cultures.
We invested in programming that gives learners opportunities to interact with native speakers of foreign languages, improving their language proficiency and communication skills. One Global Nomads Group’s Overcoming Bias Through Language Learning participant reflected, “[This program] allowed me to interact with people from different cultures and relate to others who are trying to learn a language. It was comforting to see other people in a different part of the world moving through the journey of learning language like me.”
Virtual exchange is a key that opens the door to new, and sometimes unexpected, opportunities for our alumni. In a Stevens Initiative survey of a subset of alumni in July 2024, we found that 49.6% of alumni received job opportunities and 83% pursued professional development activities.
We supported 16 virtual exchanges designed to address climate and sustainability – such as The International Foundation for Training and Development and the Onslow County School District’s Youth for Sustainable Development Goals Virtual Exchange, IREX’s Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge, An-Najah National University’s Climate Futures Exchange, and iEARN USA’s Compañeros de Clase Globales, just to name a few!
We mobilized 100 education and exchange leaders to drive virtual exchange adoption in their networks through our flagship Virtual Exchange Academy, a six-week training recommended by 100% of surveyed participants two years in a row.
We’re helping prepare rising generations for the workforce of tomorrow through virtual exchange programs that maximize skill development, provide real-world experience collaborating on projects that relate to their career interests, and model cross-cultural workplace settings.
We continue to measure the incredible impact of virtual exchange on participants’ understanding of the world and global competence skills. In 2024, 77% of participants reported having more confidence in their ability to have an impact in their home country and 95% reported that their program offered opportunities to engage with other cultures.
We invested in programming that gives learners opportunities to interact with native speakers of foreign languages, improving their language proficiency and communication skills. One Global Nomads Group’s Overcoming Bias Through Language Learning participant reflected, “[This program] allowed me to interact with people from different cultures and relate to others who are trying to learn a language. It was comforting to see other people in a different part of the world moving through the journey of learning language like me.”
Virtual exchange is a key that opens the door to new, and sometimes unexpected, opportunities for our alumni. In a Stevens Initiative survey of a subset of alumni in July 2024, we found that 49.6% of alumni received job opportunities and 83% pursued professional development activities.
We supported 16 virtual exchanges designed to address climate and sustainability – such as The International Foundation for Training and Development and the Onslow County School District’s Youth for Sustainable Development Goals Virtual Exchange, IREX’s Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge, An-Najah National University’s Climate Futures Exchange, and iEARN USA’s Compañeros de Clase Globales, just to name a few!
We mobilized 100 education and exchange leaders to drive virtual exchange adoption in their networks through our flagship Virtual Exchange Academy, a six-week training recommended by 100% of surveyed participants two years in a row.
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