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ASSOCIATION OF WORLD CITIZENS PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Douglas Mattern, President BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Association of World Citizens (AWC) is a worldwide association of persons committed to the achievement of permanent peace through the establishment of a global community. Its goal is the foundation of legal and political institutions to resolve conflicts between nations. AWC works toward this goal by encouraging individuals to become world citizens and to accept responsibility for building a world community while retaining their local or national obligations. An Executive Committee composed of representatives from six global areas carries out the policies and resolutions adopted by the Assembly. Although World Citizen Centers coordinate local activities, the Secretariat in San Francisco, appointed by the Executive Committee, is responsible for program implementation. BRIEF HISTORY AWC was sparked by the mundialist and world citizen registry movements that began in France at the end of World War II. AWC was founded in San Francisco in 1975 on the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. Nine World Citizen Assemblies have been held to date: in San Francisco (1975); Paris and Innsbruck (1977); Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima (1980); Los Angeles (1984); San Francisco (1985); and New York (1988-93). GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS AWC focuses on all international problems that impede progress toward peace and political unity. These problems include the arms race, unequal economic development, environment conservation problems, the lack of world community education, and the weakness of supranational and global institutions. PROGRAMMING AWC programming promotes world community development, research, and education in a variety of ways. Its World Citizen Centers offer hospitality and information on registering as a world citizen. AWC encourages city councils or other political entities to commit themselves to mundialism— that is, to declare themselves a part of the world community with responsibilities beyond their own borders and the borders of their state or nation. Mundialized communities fly the U.N. flag as well as their own and often contribute .01% of their annual budget to the U.N. special fund. They adopt a mundialized “sister city” in another country. At a local level, mundialized communities engage in various projects to support the U.N., promote peace efforts, and establish world cooperation. CURRENT PRIORITIES AWC is involved in programs to protect the environment, meet human needs, promote people-to-people contacts, and educate for world citizenship and world community. In 1995, AWC is taking part in both the U.N. 50th Anniversary and the 10th World Citizens Assembly. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE AWC is not a formal membership association. However, it has more than 30,000 active registered citizens throughout the world, with a majority from the U.S., Japan, France, India, and Mexico. AWC’s audience consists of those persons interested in the concept of a world community. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS AWC believes that only the development of world institutions will prevent the ultimate destruction of our planet in this nuclear age. It encourages writing and using educational materials that promote world community. AWC believes that encouraging a symbolic declaration of world citizen responsibility through registration serves to promote global consciousness and commitment to peace. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $30,000 FUNDING SOURCES Individual pledges and contributions (50%), registration fees (40%), and foundations (10%) PUBLICATIONS World Citizen, WCA newspaper.

THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO KEY CONTACT Ramey, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Melvin F. Goldman, President BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Bar Association of San Francisco is a voluntary association of lawyers admitted to California practice, most of whom reside or maintain a law office in San Francisco. With some 60 standing committees and 16 sections focusing on diverse areas of law, the Association serves the educational and professional interests of its members through a variety of program activities. The Bar's Committee on International Human Rights was established to advance both domestic and international human rights. The Committee has served as a legal resource center for local human rights groups and a potential initiator of legal action to redress violations of international human rights laws. BRIEF HISTORY The Bar Association of San Francisco was established in 1872. The Association's recent interest in international human rights problems led to the establishment in March 1980 of a Steering Committee on International Human Rights, responsible for setting guidelines for the Committee's future activities in the field. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Bar Association's international concerns include public and private international legal issues and the protection of international human rights, both in the U.S. and abroad. PROGRAMMING The Committee is considering the following activities as regular program functions: -- Intervention in domestic cases involving human rights; -- Utilization of domestic laws to help promote human rights in foreign countries; -- Assistance to refugees seeking political asylum and family reunification in the U.S.; -- Presentation to and filing of complaints with international governmental organizations; -- Assistance to lawyers and judges under restraint or denial of their human rights in connection with the practice of their profession in foreign countries. CURRENT PRIORITIES The Association's ongoing priority is planning and conducting programs on topics of current interest. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The Bar Association of San Francisco has some 8,000 members including active members practicing in San Francisco, and associate members outside the city. Any eligible lawyer is welcome to join the Association and participate in its activities. Members interested in serving on a particular committee or section are invited to contact the appropriate chair. The Committee on International Human Rights will be operating on behalf of all victims of human rights violations. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Committee on International Human Rights of the Bar Association of San Francisco believes that the observation of international legal principles will further international peace and justice. The International Human Rights Committee works actively within existing legal structures to redress international human rights violations. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(6). ANNUAL BUDGET: No formal budget for committees. FUNDING SOURCES Association membership dues. PUBLICATIONS The San Francisco Attorney, a bimonthly magazine for BASF members. The Barrister, a quarterly substantive law journal sent to all BASF members under 37 or in practice less than 6 years.

BAY AREA COUNCIL FOR JEWISH RESCUE AND RENEWAL KEY CONTACT David Waksberg, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Sheldon H. Wolfe, President Dan Grossman, Terence Flynn, Marshall Platt, Vice-Presidents BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal is devoted to supporting the freedom, security, and welfare of Jews of the former Soviet Union. These goals are pursued through the following strategies: rescue through emigration; support for Jewish renewal, community development, and humanitarian aid within the former USSR; support for human rights and democracy. BRIEF HISTORY The Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal was founded in 1967 among a small group of pioneer organizations as the first Soviet Jewry organization west of the Mississippi River. BACJRR’s founding mission was to alert the world to the problems of Soviet Jews and to initiate and organize efforts in the West on behalf of Soviet Jewry. In short, the Council's aim was to open the doors of emigration for as many Soviet Jews as possible and to provide protection and gain greater freedoms for those Jews who would remain in the USSR. Direct aid to Soviet Jews, political advocacy and linkage, and public pressure and protest have been and are the means to achieving the Council's objectives and goals. GEOGRAPHICAL AND PROBLEM AREAS BACJRR focuses its attention on the federations of the former Soviet Union as well as Eastern Europe. The Agency focuses on Human Rights (e.g., civil liberties, discrimination, religious freedom, emigration, torture). PROGRAMMING The BACJRR provides the following programs and services: Advocacy, Direct Aid/ Yad le Yad, Public Education, and Center for Jewish Renewal. Advocacy has been provided for refuseniks and separated families for more than 20 years through the Harold Light Center in St. Petersburg. As well, advocacy relating to human rights, anti-Semitism, and other hate crimes has been provided. The Yad le Yad program focuses direct support to Jewish activists in the Jewish Association within the former Soviet Union through the Aliya Center, the American Joint Distribution Committee, and the Jewish Education Fund, which sponsors various schools and programs. Public education is furnished through newsletters, speakers bureaus, Bar/Bat Mitzvah twinning (of US and former USSR children in Northern California), and media relations. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The BACJRR focuses its work mainly for Jews either still in the former Soviet Union or already residing in the United States. It also aims at political leaders and leaders in other countries. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Quite early in BACJRR's history, its leaders understood that the United States government and Congress could provide leverage in influencing the Soviet government to moderate its policies vis a vis Jews and emigration. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $333,000 FUNDING SOURCES Contributions from members, grants, and operating allocations. PUBLICATIONS Outcry, published six times a year.


BAY AREA FRIENDS OF TIBET KEY CONTACT Leslie Kean, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Jigme Yugay, President Sharon Bacon, Vice President BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bay Area Friends of Tibet aims to help preserve the culture of Tibet by educating the public about the history of Tibet and the problems Tibet faces under Chinese occupation. BAFoT advocates the right to self determination for Tibetans. BRIEF HISTORY Bay Area Friends of Tibet was founded in 1983. It started its public outreach with an event called Tibet Day at Fort Mason in March 1984. Tibet Day continues as an annual event up to the present and also takes place in Santa Cruz and East Bay locations each year. In 1990, the organization led the Resettlement Project, which involved resettling a group of several dozen Tibetans in the Bay Area by way of a special visa issuance by the Bush administration. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Tibetans have fled Tibet, mostly to India, Nepal, Europe, Australia and other western nations. BAFoT is concerned with them everywhere. The group is also studying environmental issues in Tibet itself, though it is hard to get photographs out of the country because of controversial Chinese military and hydroelectric activities. PROGRAMMING BAFoT continues to direct and aid financially the local cluster of the U.S. Tibet Resettlement Project. BAFoT produces film festivals and openings, such as for Bertolucci's "Little Buddha". Volunteers attend events such as street fairs and the Lollapalooza concerts, distributing information and selling small items such as T-shirts. BAFoT participates in on-line information networks, such as the World Tibet Network, on the Institute For Global Communication's PeaceNet conference system. BAFoT also produces its own events featuring Tibetan food, vendors of Himalayan arts, lectures, slideshows, and music and dance. BAFoT has produced computer-maps of Tibet placing as well as possible the traditional boundary of Tibet, resources, and major Chinese developments. One of these maps was recently presented to the Dalai Lama by the U.S. Tibet Committee. CURRENT PRIORITIES BAFoT informs its audience about U.S. legislation that affects Tibet and Tibetans. It also sponsors urgent action campaigns, cultural events and conferences. TARGET AUDIENCE General public. Everyone possible, but most people who know about Tibet find out by traveling in the area, or by studying Buddhism (Dharma) or Buddhist art. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS BAFoT encourages democracy for all nations, including, as the Dalai Lama puts it, "Democracy of Religion." BAFoT promotes human values over material values. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $50,000 FUNDING SOURCES Membership donations, events, grants. PUBLICATIONS Tibet: The Precious Vase (in progress). Bay Area Friends of Tibet Newsletter (quarterly).



BECHTEL INTERNATIONAL CENTER KEY CONTACT John Pearson, Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Lee Madden, Foreign Scholars Coordinator Jill Steinberg, Foreign Visitors Coordinator Gwyn Dukes, International Families Program Coordinator Lisa Park, Overseas Resource Center Coordinator BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Bechtel International Center (I-Center) at Stanford University is a meeting place for students, research scholars, and visitors from throughout the world, and for Americans on campus interested in international affairs. Advising and counseling services are provided to foreign students, scholars, and their families who come from over eighty different countries. Its Overseas Resource Center helps orient American students who are interested in traveling, studying or serving abroad, and administers the Fulbright, Marshall, Rhodes, and Churchill scholarships. The Office for International Visitors arranges campus programs for over 800 short-term visitors from abroad each year. For over 30 years, the Community Committee for International Students (CCIS) has provided a wide range of volunteer services to welcome and support the international population at Stanford. BRIEF HISTORY The I-Center was constructed inside the walls of an old fraternity house. Over the years, Stephen D. Bechtel donated funds for the renovation of the building, which has stood on this site since 1919. Major remodeling was completed in 1963. Though Stanford had students from fourteen different nations when it first opened in 1892, it was not until the 1950's that the University appointed a special officer as Foreign Student Advisor. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The I-Center embraces the areas of cross-cultural understanding, international hospitality and exchange, and global education. PROGRAMMING I-Center's advising and counseling services for foreign students, scholars and visitors include immigration, housing, financial aid, contracts with Americans, legal problems, insurance, career opportunities, and health. English classes and English-in-Action partnerships take place regularly. In addition to the services already mentioned, I-Center organizes camping and field trips, lectures and films, art shows and receptions, and yoga classes. A bridge club, Sunday suppers featuring international cuisine, concerts, a cafe, cooking classes, and festivals are among the many programs offered to make the Center a meeting place where people can feel at home and pursue their varied interests in a friendly atmosphere. CURRENT PRIORITIES The current priorities are to offer intelligent, professional, and social services to the Stanford international population and to involve the American student community. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Foreign students, scholars and visitors, their families, American students, and the internationally oriented community members who provide volunteer support are all welcome and involved in I-Center activities. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The I-Center provides a forum where different perspectives on crucial issues can be explored in keeping with the Center's position within a university dedicated to maintaining academic freedom and a democratic society. Programming is aimed at broadening cross-cultural appreciation and global perspectives. LEGAL STATUS: Stanford University 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $500,000 FUNDING SOURCES General university funds (90%) and gifts (10%). PUBLICATIONS The I-Center Forms, a mailing every six weeks to the Stanford foreign community. The I-Center also publishes topical information flyers, orientation materials, and lists of film and lecture series.

CALIFORNIA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE KEY CONTACT Joseph W. Harrison, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Everett Golden, Chairman BRIEF DESCRIPTION The California Council for International Trade (CCIT) is the state's leading nonprofit, private sector organization devoted solely to encouraging international trade. It is primarily an educational liaison, public policy organization. On behalf of its members, it works with and monitors agencies, commissions, and the executive and legislative branches at the state and federal levels on legislation and procedures related to international trade and investment. It also seeks to increase public understanding of the dependence of the California job market on international trade. BRIEF HISTORY Chartered in 1960, CCIT has expanded throughout the state. Its Directors have their respective business offices in Northern, Central and Southern California. Among the Council's early activities were calls for renewed trade with the People's Republic of China, and for an end to the state's Buy America Act (which was subsequently held unconstitutional). It has opposed measures that have tended to restrict international commerce and trade. Measures against which it has lobbied include the unitary tax assessment system, which would tax the worldwide operations of businesses operating in California; efforts to ban foreign acquisition of California land; attempts to impose trade quotas at the state and federal levels; and proposed restrictions on international bank expansion. The Council has proposed creation of a state-level Foreign Sales Corporation to provide an export incentive. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS CCIT deals with issues of interest to the international trade community of California. Given its California location it is heavily involved in Pacific Region problems, although its interests are global. PROGRAMMING CCIT hosts luncheons and seminars for leading U.S. and foreign officials and business leaders. It sponsors in-depth roundtables on specialized topics. Its corporate members may participate in its annual Sacramento meeting with California executive and legislative leaders. CURRENT PRIORITIES The importance of international trade has become widely recognized in Sacramento. The Council sees its current priorities as working with legislators and the World Trade Commission in promoting international trade and ensuring that state activities are well-directed and productive. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The Council has a statewide membership in excess of 800. Membership is open to those engaged in international trade or related services in California. In addition to its membership, the Council addresses policymakers, legislators and others responsible for the climate and conduct of international trade. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS CCIT promotes unrestricted international trade and investment. It supports government programs and "attitudes" which will expand business, especially those related to bilateral trade and investment. Its work strategy includes sponsoring international business education programs, lobbying, research, publishing, and disseminating information to its members and the public. Members represent the Council's views to legislative and administrative officials. LEGAL STATUS a) CCIT: California 501(c)(6). b) CCIT Education: California 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES Primarily membership contributions. PUBLICATIONS The New GATT Round: A Guide for California Business. International Trade: Gateway to Prosperity. Council Newsletter, quarterly with supplementary news bulletins. Updated February 1999
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES KEY CONTACT Shirley Mead-Mezzetta, Executive Secretary PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Principal Officers change yearly BRIEF DESCRIPTION The California Council for the Social Studies (CCSS) is an association of social studies educators whose mission is to provide a network of support and services, a vehicle for the development of leadership, and a process for influencing policy decisions which affect history-social science education. The goal is maintaining quality instruction to California's diverse and expanding student population in an era of rapid change. With 21 local councils, the Northern Region has councils in the East Bay, Marin, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara counties, Redwood Empire, Monterey Tri-County, Northwest Coast, North State, Sacramento Area and Delta-Central Sierra Region. The State Council is governed by an annually elected Executive Committee and a Board of Directors elected by local councils. BRIEF HISTORY CCSS was established in 1961. Its recent conference and yearly themes have been: California Bordering the World; E Pluribus Unum: The Complexities of Diversity; Reflections from the Past-Opportunities for the Future. It has grown to a membership of 2800 educators interested in history and social science education. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS CCSS has international studies interests with no continuing specific country or area focus. It addresses issues in the field of social studies education such as history, social sciences, humanities, visual and performing arts as well as social problems of international scope. PROGRAMMING CCSS conducts workshops, regional conferences, and an annual conference on issues related to teaching social studies. CURRENT PRIORITIES The major current priorities are strengthening bilingual, multicultural and general social studies education in the California public and private schools and the pre-service preparation of new teachers in social studies. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE CCSS has a membership of some 2,800 social studies educators, curriculum developers, administrators college-university professors who have a direct, professional relationship with social studies education. Membership includes state and a local council affiliation. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS CCSS maintains that interdependence and American cultural diversity make international studies, bilingual and multicultural education indispensable if the U.S. is to coexist effectively within the world's peoples and nations. Its work strategy consists of developing a multiplicity of learning strategies for instructing teachers and for classroom use, while also lobbying for support from state government agencies. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $235,575 FUNDING SOURCES Program fees (75%) membership dues (22%) and other sources (3%). PUBLICATIONS Sunburst, quarterly newsletter with classroom strategies, statewide social studies news, and exploration of issues. Social Studies Review, a tri-annual professional journal which usually focuses on a theme relevant to history-social science educators.


CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES KEY CONTACT Robert McDermott, President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Zeppelin Wong, Esq., Chair, Board of Trustees John Levy, Interim Provost BRIEF DESCRIPTION The California Institute of Integral Studies is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian graduate school dedicated to the integration of Eastern and Western traditions of knowledge. The central, distinctive mission of the Institute is to provide an environment, facilities and guidance for systematic, disciplined study and research in the integration of Eastern and Western worldviews, philosophies, value systems, psychologies, healing and spiritual practices, and cultural traditions. The East-West dimension is defined broadly to encompass comparative and synthesizing approaches to understanding all humankind's varied cultures, and the spiritual dimension which gives them their underlying unity. A complimentary objective is the integration of the religious, mythic, and symbolic philosophies of ancient traditions with the empirical, analystic paradigms of modern Western thought. BRIEF HISTORY The Institute was founded in 1968 by Dr. Haridas Chauduri, a pioneer in comparative and integrative East-West studies. The Institute was the educational branch of the Cultural Integration Fellowship until 1974, when it was incorporated separately. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Institute has one campus in San Francisco. The school accepts students from all over the world and gives particular attention to Native American studies through its Traditional Knowledge program. CURRENT PRIORITIES The Institute is exploring 'distance learning-medium through an experimental on-line program in the Integral Studies program. The School also hopes to launch a Life Long Learning program in two years. PROGRAMMING The Institute offers M.A. and Ph.D. programs in East-West psychology, philosophy and religion, social and cultural anthropology, clinical psychology, integral counseling psychology, somatics, women's spirituality, integral health studies, traditional knowledge, drama therapy, organizational development and transformation, and arts and business. There is also an integral studies doctoral degree and a B.A. completion degree. The Institute's educational programs are multicultural and are designed to foster the integration of academic learning with individual growth and practical application. Two centers--The Center for the Story of the Universe and The Center for Ecology and Sustainability--are affiliated with the Institute. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The faculty includes internationally known scholars, educators and writers. Students are adults pursuing graduate-level training or continuing education. Many of them are working professionals who serve the community as counselors, teachers, ministers and health workers. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Institute believes that a vision of planetary unity, with interrelated values and assumptions, is a fundamental premise for survival, and that such a vision must be manifested through understanding of, and respect for, diverse cultures. Its strategy is to apply this concept to education from an intercultural and comparative approach, as well as to emphasize the integral individual, by placing equal value on intellectual knowledge, personal experience, and practical application. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $7,000,000 FUNDING SOURCES In 1990, CIIS received a $5,000,000 grant from Laurance S. Rockefeller. In 1994, CIIS received a $100,000 scholarship endowment from the Auenberger Foundation.


CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROJECT KEY CONTACT Dr. Ronald Herring, Executive Director TAFF COORDINATION TEAM: Dr. Joan Benton, Instructional Specialist Marilyn, Administrative Manager BRIEF DESCRIPTION The California International Studies Project (CISP) is a state-funded network of 10 international studies resource centers operating throughout Northern and Southern California. The project is an effort to strengthen the capacity of the state's elementary and secondary teachers to provide their students with instruction related to other cultures, world regions, world history, and global and international issues. BRIEF HISTORY CISP is based on a pilot regional resource center initiated in 1979 by a consortium that included Stanford University, Global Educators, and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. In May 1986, the State Department of Education selected Stanford's Center for Research in International Studies and the University's consortium partners to manage the statewide project. Since 1991, CISP has become aligned with the California Subject Matter Projects, a statewide effort to reform the K-12 curriculum through professional enhancement of teachers in each of the subjects taught in California schools. CISP continues to be managed by Stanford, now under a contractual agreement with the University of California Office of the President, which administers the overall California Subject Matter Project for the state. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Resource centers are partnerships of school districts, regional educational agencies, and international education resource organizations such as universities, world affairs groups and exchange networks working together to upgrade international studies dimensions of the school curricula. PROGRAMMING Project training focuses on international content, concepts, and skills; instructional strategies for involving students more actively in the learning process; and curriculum evaluation and adaptation skills. The projects and their principal sponsoring organizations in Northern California are the following: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA The Bay Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) serves teachers, schools and districts in five Bay Area counties and is the pilot center on which the state project is based. BAGEP is cosponsored by Stanford University and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and project Co-Directors are based in the two different locations. BAGEP offers introductory programs, academic-year seminar and skill series, intensive summer institutes, and leadership development programs. The project offers programs on world regions, world history, international issues and instructional strategies appropriate to such academic content. NORTH STATE Resources in International Studies Education (RISE) serves school communities in eight Northern California counties. Sponsored by the Institute for International Studies of California State University, Chico, RISE actively collaborates with other Northern California international resource organizations to provide staff development and curriculum services to K-12 teachers throughout the region. RISE emphasizes professional development activities in world history, world region and area studies, world literature, contemporary world issues, and interactive, student-centered instructional approaches. Center activities include summer and academic-year professional development programs, travel-study experiences for teachers in the U.S. and abroad and curriculum materials support services. SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY The Program in International and Multicultural Education (PIME) is sponsored by California State University, Stanislaus (in Turlock), and participating San Joaquin Valley school districts and international studies resource organizations. The project offers an extended academic year seminar series for K-12 teachers, as well as intensive summer institute programs and introductory programs on a variety of world affairs topics. The center is initiating a three-year summer and academic-year series, "Roots of California's Diversity, " to focus on the immigrant experience in the development of the region, the state and the nation. Other programs will make curriculum resource materials, multiple-ability training activities, and international student-ambassadors available to schools in the region. SONOMA/MARIN The North Bay International Studies Project (NBISP) has two principal institutional sponsors-- California State University, Sonoma and Dominican College in San Rafael-- and a host of affiliated international and educational organizations serving teachers and schools in a region stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border. NBISP emphasizes training related to world cultures and world regions, conflict within and between cultures, and issues of diversity in U.S. and other cultures. The project maintains a comprehensive resource materials center at Dominican College, builds the subject knowledge and pedagogical skills of teachers to address heterogeneously grouped classrooms, and provides leadership training and follow-up services to teams of teacher leaders who coordinate international education programs and interests in their own schools and districts. SACRAMENTO The most recently established regional project in the CISP network is the Sacramento International Studies Project (SISP), which is sponsored by California State University, Sacramento and is housed in the University's Cross Cultural Resource Center. SISP will concentrate on strengthening the international competence of new teachers, especially those prepared by Sacramento State to work in ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse school communities in the Central Valley. As with other CISP centers, SISP will offer academic-year and summer intensive programs and professional support services for teachers when the project is fully functioning. Other resource centers in the CISP network include: Western International Studies Consortium (WISC) in Los Angeles, the South Bay World History Project (SBWHIP) in Long Beach, the Inland Empire Consortium for International Studies (IECIS) in San Bernardino, the International Studies Education Project (ISTEP) in San Diego, and the Fullerton International Studies Project in Fullerton. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE In each Center, Site Directors, international specialists, and teacher leaders collaborate to offer project services, materials and experiences for K-12 teachers. Some of the participants of Center-sponsored programs are drawing the project's services for the benefit of students in their own classrooms, and exemplary teachers are being supported and assisted to play broader leadership roles with colleagues in their schools, districts, and throughout the region. LEGAL STATUS: Stanford University 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES CISP managing institution and resource center costs are covered by $1,400,000 in state funding and substantially more than that in matching funds and institutional cost-sharing commitments from sponsoring organizations and participating school districts. Incremental funding to expand the CISP network of regional sites is contingent upon additional allocations of funds that would have to be authorized by the state legislature and approved by the governor. The project's authorizing legislation requires that each dollar of state funds be matched with fifty cents of private, local or in-kind support.

CALIFORNIA LABOR FEDERATION (AFL-CIO) KEY CONTACT John F. Henning, Exec. Secretary-Treasurer PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Albin J. Gruhn, President BRIEF DESCRIPTION The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 105 national and international unions in the United States. There are 60,000 local unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO. It is the central organization of American labor, a union of unions. Though each member union is autonomous and must conduct its own programs in this field, the AFL-CIO speaks for the whole labor movement. It represents American labor in world affairs and in international labor bodies. A regional office in San Francisco is the direct arm of the AFL-CIO in the western United States. Its central organization is the California Labor Federation which, chartered by the national AFL-CIO (as are the local labor councils), links such councils, local unions and regional offices of national unions. BRIEF HISTORY The AFL, founded in 1881, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, founded in 1935, merged in 1955 to form the present organization. This merger ended a twenty-year organizational split over the form of trade union organization (craft or industrial) and a number of other political and ideological differences. Some differences persist and some unions (the ILWU, the Teamsters) still remain outside the AFL-CIO. The California Labor Federation Charter was signed by Samuel Gompers in 1901. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS AFL-CIO interests are worldwide. Its Department of International Affairs is in touch with foreign governments, agencies of our government, and a number of international labor bodies. Three AFL-CIO regional auxiliary organizations work to advance trade unions in developing nations. The American Institute for Free Labor Development has offices in seventeen countries and conducts schools for labor leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean. The African American Labor Center and the Asian American Free Labor Institute pursue similar objectives, developing housing projects, credit unions, and workers- clinics. They seek to strengthen those forces in their respective societies committed to land reform, free trade unionism, and democratic government. PROGRAMMING International Affairs programming takes three forms: vigorous overseas education and development programs, as described above; persistent efforts in the public arena to define and forward specific positions on U.S. foreign policy issues; occasional educational and support activities at the local level. AFL-CIO publications discuss foreign policy resolutions. Some affiliated unions deal with world affairs problems in summer camps and in leadership training programs. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The defense of trade union interests and the development of a clearly ideological position set the framework for the AFL-CIO's work. Under the pressure of a changing world economy, the AFL-CIO has shifted from the free trade to the protectionist or, as the AFL-CIO would have it, the fair trade side of the argument. Ideologically, the AFL-CIO starts with the right of unions to organize to improve wages and labor standards. The AFL-CIO's commitment to free speech and free political institutions determines its world affairs programs and policy positions. LEGAL STATUS: The CLF is not an independent organization. It is chartered by the AFL-CIO as part of that legal structure with 501(c)(6) tax-exempt status. ANNUAL BUDGET $27.8 million (national) plus $1.4 million to aid workers in other countries and special programs. FUNDING SOURCES Per capita taxes ($2.28 per year per member) paid by affiliated national unions on behalf of each of their members plus grants from overseas programs. PUBLICATIONS The California AFL-CIO News, weekly. The Federationist, monthly. Free Trade Union News, monthly from AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs.