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HAAS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE KEY CONTACT Kathy Veit, Publicity Coordinator PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Timothy K. Stanton, Director Anne Takemoto, School Programs Coordinator Janet Luce, Service-Learning Coordinator Shelly McKinney, Clearinghouse Coordinator BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Haas Center for Public Service serves as a focal point for local, national, and international voluntary student efforts on the Stanford campus. It houses over 40 University sponsored programs and student-run organizations. Haas Center programs strive to provide a broad continuum of opportunities to expand understanding of social issues and develop the knowledge, skills, and commitment requisite for effective participation in public and community service; to develop the capacities of those served and those who serve by fostering mutually beneficial relationships between campus and community members; to expand and strengthen campus instruction, scholarship, and student life by providing a wide range of service-learning opportunities. BRIEF HISTORY The Public Service Center was established in 1984 by the University President, Donald Kennedy, in response to the desire of Stanford students to find meaningful ways to serve society. In 1989, the Haas family of San Francisco endowed the Center, and it was renamed the Haas Center for Public Service. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS While Haas Center programs include those that are international and global in scope, most serve communities close to the Stanford campus, especially East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park, and Redwood City. Most programs serve communities that are considered underserved (i.e. ethnic minorities, the homeless) in an attempt to build stronger partnerships and secure funding for core programs. PROGRAMMING Examples of programming include Alternative Spring Break Service-Learning Projects, Public Service Opportunities Clearinghouse, Kennedy Public Service Summer Fellowships, Gardner Public Service Fellowships, Korean Tutorial Project, Stanford Homelessness Action Coalition, Upward Bound, etc. TARGET AUDIENCE Stanford undergraduates and members of local communities in need. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Because the Center is part of an educational institution, it aims to be as inclusive as possible in defining service, political and other ideologies, etc. The opportunity to serve is available to all regardless of financial condition, political persuasion, or motivation to serve. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES University funds; endowment yield; corporate, foundation, and government grants; gifts from private individuals. PUBLICATIONS Annual report, Service Learning: Making the Connections.



HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION & PEACE KEY CONTACT Gloria J. Walker, Public Affairs Manager PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Martin Anderson, Chairman, Board of Overseers John Raisian, Director BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is an international research and documentation center for the advanced interdisciplinary study of political, economic and social change in the twentieth century. The Institution contains a library of approximately 1.6 million volumes and archives consisting of 50 million items. Scholars from around the world visit the Institution to do research in the area collections on Africa, the Americas, East Asia, East-Central Europe, the Middle East, Russia/CIS and Western Europe. BRIEF HISTORY The Hoover Institution was founded in 1919 by the man who was to become the thirty-first president of the United States, Herbert Hoover. The Hoover Institution began as a specialized collection of documents on the causes and consequences of World War I. Growing in scope, it became one of the United States first think tanks, with a world-renowned group of resident scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS International Area Studies is oriented primarily around the Institution's archival collections, which focus on Russia and other parts of former USSR, as well as Europe, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. The economics, politics, security, and history of these geographic areas are central to the research. International Cross-Country Studies emphasizes comparative analyses in pursuit of further understanding of conflict resolution, war, peace, revolution, democracy, societal change, and international trade and economics. International Security Affairs focuses on developments in the contemporary world that directly affect security interests of the United States and the prospects for world peace, with particular attention to arms control, military policy, intelligence, and terrorism. National Economic Growth explores the determinants of increasing the well being of U.S. society, including the impact of monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, financial markets, and federal debt. PROGRAMMING Hoover's intellectual vitality and achievements are further enhanced by the various visiting scholars, fellows, lecturers, and foreign dignitaries who spend up to a year in residence. These visitors include distinguished scholars from other universities, U.S. and foreign government officials, and journalists, as well as young scholars who show promise of becoming leading public policy intellectuals in the future. CURRENT PRIORITIES The dramatically changing world of the 1990s is a challenging one for Hoover scholars. Research initiatives that draw on the expertise of scholars from traditional disciplines and address new areas of research facilitate the analysis and discussion of emerging policy issues. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Scholarship at the Hoover Institution serves the international community of professional scholars, and research results have attracted the interest of world leaders as well as federal and state policymakers. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS At the Hoover Institution each scholar pursues his/her own line of research which leads to diverse areas of inquiry and varying individual perspectives. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $17 million. FUNDING SOURCES Hoover endowment payout (44%); gifts from Hoover supporters (29%); Stanford University funds (20%); government grants (5%); publications and microfilm sales (2%). PUBLICATIONS The Institution publishes an annual report, a quarterly newsletter, a quarterly essay collection, a monthly series of monographs titled Essays in Public Policy and weekly "Viewpoints" articles by Hoover scholars.

HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Barbara Wein, Executive Director Walt Knoepfel, President of the Board BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hostelling International is dedicated to the concept of world peace through travel. Hostels serve as meeting places for people from all over the US and around the world. It is through their interaction that understanding occurs. The Golden Gate Council’s vision is to develop a chain of hostels on the California coast that will provide overnight accommodations for travelers of all ages and backgrounds. BRIEF HISTORY The Golden Gate Council was founded in 1958. Since that time the council, which serves Northern California, has grown to include 7 council operated hostels and an annual membership of about 11,000. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Council operates hostels and programs in Northern California from the Oregon border to just north of Santa Cruz. PROGRAMMING The Hostel Adventure program is an environmental education program for inner-city children ages 8-18. It is the only program in the Bay Area to combine environmental education, interpersonal skill development and intercultural understanding through hostel living. The program has been in operation since 1986 and more than 1,000 children a year participate in the day and overnight trips to Bay Area hostels. A program of free walking tours is operated at two San Francisco hostels. The tours are designed to familiarize visitors to different areas of the city including such neighborhoods as the Mission District and the Tenderloin. CURRENT PRIORITIES The Golden Gate Council's main priorities are a hostel development project in Sacramento, developing a closer working relationship with the other Hostelling International Councils on the West Coast, implementing sustainable living projects at several of the hostels. The Golden Gate Council was recently awarded a grant from the HI national office for a project that would educate visitors to the hostel at Union Square about San Francisco's gay community with a goal of reducing misinformation and combatting homophobia. Another grant will go toward producing a poster that provides information about Native American tribes in this area. It will also roll out to other councils around the country so that they can produce similar posters. These will serve as educational tools for the travelers that stay at the hostels. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Membership encompasses people of all ages with the largest majority between the ages of 18-35. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Hostelling International's perspective is that it is difficult for misunderstanding to exist when people of different backgrounds spend time together and share experiences. The environment is created at each of the hostels where visitors from around the world share sleeping quarters, cook meals together and share their lives. Visitors take these shared experiences home with them as a lasting legacy of their trip. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $1.9 million. FUNDING SOURCES Membership dues, grants, overnight revenue, travel center revenue. PUBLICATIONS The Golden Gate Hosteller newsletter, published twice a year. The North American Hostel Handbook California Hostels brochure, Hostel Adventure brochure.

INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES KEY CONTACT Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman, Board of Directors A. Lawrence Chickering, Executive Editor BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for Contemporary Studies, through its programs and outreach activities promotes policies that foster free political and economic institutions. Studies are generated by the staff and Board of Directors in consultation with outside academic specialists. Studies are aimed at the informed public rather than at other scholars and are used in some 500 college classrooms nationwide. The resulting books and monographs are vigorously promoted to secure a wide public audience among policymakers, the national media, and other concerned groups. The Institute's staff of sixteen is guided by a sixteen-member Board of Directors. BRIEF HISTORY The Institute for Contemporary Studies was founded in 1974 as an alternative to the more established "think tank" and research institute. Judging that academic studies which spoke only to other academics had a marginal impact on policymakers, ICS set out to produce studies of scholarly integrity that were written in nonspecialized language. ICS Press has published the writings of seven Nobel laureates and produced more than a hundred books in four languages. In its short history, ICS has established a national reputation. The International Center for Economic Growth, a division of ICS, was founded in 1985 and promotes economic growth and human development in developing and post-socialist countries. The International Center for Self-Governance was established in 1990 to work with farmers, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs and community activists in these countries to bridge the gap between these individuals and the producers of ideas for institutional reform. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Institute has not focused its foreign policy work on any specific geographic area. It has addressed fundamental problems of U.S. foreign policy: e.g., defense policy, energy policy, relations with Russia, the Third World, U.S. intelligence capabilities, and options in U.S. foreign policy. PROGRAMMING Beyond generating ideas for study and then editing the product, the Institute's major programming activity begins with publication of its research. Book releases are accompanied by seminars, receptions, dinners, and briefings for the media and policymakers. Press conferences and interviews with the media enable authors to reach a wider public audience. In addition, ICS sponsors an annual public policy conference. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE ICS has a functioning network of some 650 academicians who have contributed to ICS studies and continue to speak on behalf of the Institute's work. Its target audience includes the media, legislators and policymakers, college students, the business community, NGO leaders, and the general public. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Institute is devoted to the defense and strengthening of free economic and social institutions. ICS has a vision of self-governance which holds that it is the community of citizens, and not the government, that produces goods and services. ICS studies reflect a belief that government centered approaches have generally failed to offer constructive solutions to U.S. economic and social problems. ICS believes that many public policy issues get a one-sided portrayal. ICEG works in the belief that better economic and social policies are critical to promoting sustainable economic growth and human development and that improving the policy environment is the quickest, most effective way to improve the lives and opportunities of the world's citizens. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $2.5 million. PUBLICATIONS Journal of Contemporary Studies, quarterly; The Letter, quarterly newsletter. ICS publishes an average of eight to ten studies a year. A full publications list is available from the office.


INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY KEY CONTACT Dr. Angus Wright, President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Dr. Peter Rosset, Director Francis Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins: Co-founders BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) is a nonprofit research and education center, which, since its founding in 1975, has been dedicated to identifying the root causes of hunger in the United States and around the world. Financed by thousands of members, with modest support from foundations and churches, the Institute speaks with a strong, independent voice, free from ideological formulas and vested interests. In over 60 countries and in 20 languages, Food First provides a wide array of educational tools (books, articles, slide shows, films, and curricula) to lay the groundwork for a more democratically controlled food system that will meet the needs of all. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Institute seeks to identify the root causes of hunger and food problems here and abroad. It examines and reports on how people are struggling to achieve food self-reliance in countries around the world, and presents critical reports on a trend of increasing concentration of control over food producing resources, both in the U.S. and in the Third World. The Institute's work shows how the complex relationships between corporations and U.S. government programs facilitate this trend which is undermining food security for all. PROGRAMMING In addition to its research and publication activities, the Institute conducts extensive public speaking and media outreach activities through its Speakers Bureau, radio and television, and slide/tape presentations. Field research is carried out by Institute staff as part of its educational work. CURRENT PRIORITIES The Institute's major programs include a study of the role of non-governmental organizations in strengthening the democratic process in Chile, Brazil and the Philippines. A second program looks at the social and environmental toll of high speed industrialization as experienced in Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, and increasing emulation by other Asian countries. The impact of free trade continues to be explored, along with the impact of structural adjustment programs imposed by the International Monetary Fund. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The work of the Institute is intended to aid all who are working to end hunger in their countries as well as reach others not already involved in food-related issues. Researchers, scholars, and practitioners involved in anti-hunger work in the U.S. and abroad share in the Institute's work. Membership information may be obtained from the office. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Institute's perspective rests on the premise that because food is primary, the first test of any political and economic system is whether or not people are hungry. The Institute focuses on obstacles to "democratic control of resources" which could be used to solve world hunger problems. It sees these obstacles as located especially in U.S. military, economic, and corporate intervention "that pits Americans against the efforts of the hungry abroad." Through its programming, the Institute seeks to remove those obstacles. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $630,000. FUNDING SOURCES Contributions from private foundations and individuals, literature sales, royalties and speaking honoraria. PUBLICATIONS Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity World Hunger: 12 Myths What Can We Do? Food and Hunger. How You Can Make a Difference Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions About our Foreign Aid and the Hungry A complete listing of publications is available from the Institute.

INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Marci Lockwood, Executive Director BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) provides computer networking tools for international communication and information exchange. The IGC networks, ConflictNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, PeaceNet, and Womensnet, together with the Association for Progressive Communications partner networks comprise a worldwide computer communications system dedicated to environmental preservation, human rights, sustainable development, peace and social justice. IGC provides services to progressive activists in over 130 countries. BRIEF HISTORY PeaceNet and EcoNet were originally separate organizations. PeaceNet was formed in 1985, and EcoNet was formed in 1982. In 1987, the two networks merged to form the Institute for Global Communications. In 1989, the first international link was made with a similar network called GreenNet in England. The international partnership is now known as the Association for Progressive Communications, which now connects over 20,000 organizations and activists in 130 countries. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS IGC focuses on providing affordable networking services to organizations in the United States and providing technical assistance to organizations in the developing world trying to set up computer networks. Its users are mainly in the United States, while partner and affiliated networks serve users in 154 countries. The Association of Progressive Communications parter networks include among others ComLink e.V. (Germany), GlasNet (Russia), GreenNet (England), LaNeta (Mexico), Wamani (Argentina), and Web (Canada). CURRENT PRIORITIES -- PeaceNet involves itself with many issues including immigrant, children's, women's and human rights; poverty organizations; and Africa and Middle East networking. -- EcoNet's concerns are biodiversity, toxins, toxic trade, climate change, forests, trade (NAFTA and GATT), and other issues. -- ConflictNet is focused on mediators and people practicing alternative/appropriate dispute resolution. -- LaborNet focuses on unions and other people working on labor rights and issues. spend time to TARGET AUDIENCE IGC targets progressive organizations and individuals. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS IGC believes that communication is a basic right and a necessary tool for creating progressive social change. LEGAL STATUS: A division of the Tides Foundation, California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $2,000,000 FUNDING SOURCES Approximately 90 percent of funds come from user fees and the rest is from foundation grants and contracts. PUBLICATIONS NetNews, a bimonthly newsletter of network activities, plus numerous electronic publications.


INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES KEY CONTACT Nancy Okimoto, PRINCIPAL OFFICERS AND SENIOR STAFF Walter P. Falcon, Director Coit D. Blacker, Deputy Director Brigitte H. Carnochan, Associate Director for External Affairs BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for International Studies coordinates contemporary, policy-relevant research that is international and interschool in character. Working in partnership with the seven schools at Stanford (Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences, Education, Medicine, Law, and Business) and with the Hoover Institution, IIS fosters excellence in research and teaching across disciplinary, school, and national boundaries. Research findings are incorporated by participating faculty into courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to faculty appointed within departments, IIS makes tenure-line appointments jointly with schools, and draws upon a University appointment line of Senior Fellows and Center Fellows. IIS administers overseas research centers in Kyoto, Japan, and Chiapas, Mexico, and, on behalf of two consortia of major universities, administers advanced language study programs in Taipei, Taiwan, and Yokohama, Japan. IIS has a strong outreach orientation, implemented through conferences and exchanges between business and governmental leaders and their academic counterparts; an elementary and secondary school curriculum development program; and teacher training programs in international studies. IIS programs publish books (via academic and commercial publishers), monographs, working papers, newsletters, and K-12 curriculum units. Annual lectures open to the public include the Wesson Lecture in International Theory and Practice and the Arthur and Frank Payne Lectures on the Global Community and its Challenges. IIS constituent programs host regular bag lunches and lectures open to the public. BRIEF HISTORY IIS was established in 1988 as the successor institution to the Center for Research in International Studies and merged in 1989 with the International Strategic Institute at Stanford (ISIS). The Institute is organized as an independent laboratory under the office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy. In 1991, the Institute established a distinguished Advisory Council, chaired by George P. Shultz, and including among its members former heads of state and distinguished leaders from around the world. In 1992, IIS also created a Board of Visitors, chaired by William Landreth, to serve as advisors and advocates for the Institute. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The priority areas of research are in the fields of international security; international political economy; and the global environment. Projects organized by IIS programs often have a regional or global focus. Geographic strengths are Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Central Asia. PROGRAMMING The Institute administers a university-wide research agenda, specializing in areas that require participation of faculty and students from two or more schools. Program activity is concentrated in the constituent research clusters and centers, but the IIS central staff plays a key role in fostering research in new areas or crosscutting themes. Programs within IIS include: the Asia/Pacific Research Center; Center for International Security and Arms Control; Global Environment Program; North America Forum; Center for European Studies; Program on Sovereignty and Governance; Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE); Stanford Japan Center-Research; Stanford Regional Center in Chiapas, Mexico; Inter-University Center for Chinese Language Studies (Taiwan); and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (Japan). In the fall of 1994, administrative supervision of four language and area centers (Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and Center for Russian and East European Studies) moved from IIS to the School of Humanities and Sciences. The Institute fosters development of overseas collaborations. The Stanford Japan Center located in Kyoto provides opportunities for faculty from all schools and disciplines at Stanford to organize collaborative research projects, symposia, and conferences with their Japanese counterparts. The Stanford University Regional Center in Chiapas, Mexico, in cooperation with the School of Medicine and the Center for Latin American Studies, administers research projects related to soils and agriculture, public health, and forests and reserves. IIS works closely with Stanford University's Overseas Studies Program in developing research opportunities for students and faculty in residence at Stanford's overseas campuses in Berlin, Paris, Oxford, Florence, Santiago, Moscow, and Kyoto. In addition, IIS has an active outreach program consisting of public education programs, mid-career study, conferences, and seminars. The Stanford Program on International and Cross-root causes of hunger and cultural Education (SPICE) develops cross-cultural curriculum units for elementary and secondary schools and manages the Bay Area Global Education Project (BAGEP) which offers teacher workshops, summer institutes, and field study related to international issues. Visiting scholar programs at each of the research centers provide opportunities for scientists, diplomats, and specialists from industry to participate in university research. Other outreach programs include annual meetings of the U.S.-Japan Forum; the Asian-U.S. Leaders' Roundtable; annual seminars for corporate affiliates of A/PARC and CISAC and corporate sponsors of other IIS programs; and periodic workshops, seminars, and conferences on targeted international topics. The Institute raises and administers funds from governmental, foundation, and private sources. These are used in part to finance faculty research, student fellowships and field research, faculty and academic staff appointments, and outreach in support of the University's international activities. CURRENT PRIORITIES -- Promoting research at Stanford on contemporary, policy-relevant issues with international impact. -- Promoting collaborations among Stanford faculty across schools and disciplines at Stanford and with specialists from institutions located abroad. -- Augmenting endowment in order to improve the financial base of international studies at Stanford. -- Encouraging greater opportunities for graduates and undergraduates to participate in faculty-led research, both at Stanford and abroad. -- Encouraging development of new curriculum at all levels that enhances understanding of issues in their international context. -- Developing undergraduate honors programs at Stanford in international security and international political economy. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The IIS community consists of faculty participants in IIS-supported research; graduate and undergraduate students involved as honors students, teaching assistants, and research assistants; academic and administrative staff; visiting scholars and fellows; visiting faculty from other institutions. Nonresident affiliates include members of the IIS Advisory Council and of the IIS Board of Visitors, and individuals and organizations affiliated with one or more of the IIS constituent programs. Its target audience includes the university at large (faculty, students, staff); policymakers in business and government; elementary and secondary school teachers; and, for public lectures and publications, the general public. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Institute rarely takes positions on international events, although it encourages University officers and others in the community to understand the growing importance of international and global issues. It seeks to achieve this objective by cooperating with organizations and institutions that have similar objectives. LEGAL STATUS: Stanford University: 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $12.5 million FUNDING SOURCES Stanford University general funds (14%); income from endowment (14%); gifts and grants (72%).


INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE KEY CONTACT Robert Johansen, President, President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Professor William G. Petersen, Esq., Chair Board Geoffrey Steele, General Counsel BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a nonprofit applied research firm dedicated to understanding technological, environmental, and societal changes and their long-range consequences. Simply put, IFTF helps public and private organizations think systematically about the future. With methodologies derived from quantitative fields like engineering and statistics and qualitative fields like communications, economics, and sociology, research is conducted in strategic planning, emerging information technologies, health care, transportation, and business processes. The Institute's particular strength lies in exploring issues at the intersection of these areas - for example, analyzing the likely effects of emerging technologies on businesses practices or forecasting strategic alternatives for the health care industry. BRIEF HISTORY Founded in 1968, IFTF has been a pioneer in developing and applying concepts and techniques of futures research to decision-making processes in both public and private sectors. Research has focused on applying futures planning to practical problems, inventing new tools for looking at the future, and stimulating public awareness of the future. Over the years, IFTF has developed a comprehensive information based on likely future social, political, economic, and technological developments. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS IFTF's research areas include emerging technologies, telecommunications and computing, teleservices, forecasting and planning, health care, new methodologies, environmental scanning of the economy, demography, the labor force, international trends, technology, public policy, attitudes, and life-styles. PROGRAMMING IFTF's research results in publications and a variety of presentations for both its clients and the interested public. CURRENT PRIORITIES Current IFTF projects include a study of the future of drug coverage, a study of American corporate ethics codes, and a strategic planning study of the future of the California courts. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE IFTF's staff includes specialists in business, communications, computer science, economics, education, engineering, finance, mathematics, political science, sociology, and statistics. The staff is supported by a consultant bank of several hundred experts in more than 50 disciplines. Although corporations, government agencies, and educational institutions are major clients, IFTF is committed to an active dissemination program to reach as large an audience as possible. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS IFTF takes no political positions on the issues it examines for its clients. It believes, however, that thinking about the future and its alternative scenarios is a necessity for making thoughtful judgments and decisions about current activities. It has maintained wide contact with futures movements and organizations from other countries in the hope of applying futures research to international problems. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $7 million. FUNDING SOURCES Business and industry; state and federal governments; private foundations. PUBLICATIONS 1993 Ten Year Forecast. Bridging Distance and Diversity: Navigating the Challenges of Distributed and Cross-Cultural Business Teams.

INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT KEY CONTACT Norman T. Gilroy, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Shelley Arrowsmith, Vice President BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute for the Human Environment is engaged internationally in problem solving, information exchange, research, and education in the field of environmental design. It conducts basic research on the relationships between the human individual and the designed and natural environments. In addition, it provides design technology outreach programs to communities and decision makers whose actions affect the quality of buildings, interiors, and urban places. Its goal is to become a significant international force in improving future designed environments. BRIEF HISTORY The Institute was founded in 1971 by architect Norman Gilroy to make archi988 as the successor institution to the Center tectural design more responsible to human needs. From educating design students and applied research, the institute's focus has shifted in recent years to serving as a resource and education center for design professionals. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Though most of its present work focuses on the U.S. and Central Europe, the Institute also works on exchange of knowledge and problem solving programs for decision makers of the developing nations of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Basin. PROGRAMMING The Institute sponsors educational programs designed to increase public and professional awareness of how the quality of a designed environment is a major factor in human well-being. The Institute focuses on both personal and community environments. It conducts workshops and conferences for professionals in the field and conducts research on design problems. CURRENT PRIORITIES The current priorities of the Institute are: -- An outreach, information, and educational program addressing the human response to factors in the workplace; -- A problem solving program that links experts in North America, Europe and parts of the Pacific for information exchange and problem solving on issues related to the working and community environment; -- A program designed to establish self sustaining cottage industries around the re-use of glass and other materials in the waste stream of small and medium sized communities. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The Institute is not a membership organization. Its target audience is primarily decision makers whose actions shape the built environment, including corporate leaders, financiers, governmental decision makers, architects, environmental planners, interior designers, and other design shapers. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The Institute believes that if industrialization and technology advance without culturally and environmentally sensitive planning, the quality of human life will deteriorate. It therefore promotes research to ensure that the quality of places where people live and work will be maintained on as supportive a level as possible. This can best be done through mutual sharing of perspectives, skills and knowledge across national boundaries. The Institute also encourages global education to bring attention to the effects that human decisions have on the quality of the human environment. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $186,000 FUNDING SOURCES Grants and/or contracts from the California Council for the Humanities, the U.S. Office of Coastal Zone Management, the San Francisco Foundation, Herman Miller, Inc., the Swedish Government, the Governor's Office of American Samoa, the University of Trieste in Italy, etc. PUBLICATIONS The Institute publishes occasional monographs on design issues in different geographical settings and the proceedings of its conferences and seminars.

INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION KEY CONTACT Dr. Carl Zachrisson, Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF Paul W. Hamann, Administrative Manager Kate Leiva, Student Services Manager BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Institute of International Education (IIE) is the oldest and largest international exchange organization in the U.S. IIE administers scholarships and provides academic placement, evaluation, and counseling for both U.S. and foreign students interested in studying outside their respective countries. In addition to student exchanges, IIE addresses problems of educational, economic, and technological development abroad by arranging the training and exchange of academics, specialists, and technical experts throughout the world. IIE works to improve mutual learning and understanding between the U.S. and other nations, and to prepare people for leadership positions in their respective societies. IIE works closely with the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), USAID, and with foreign governments. It is governed by a national Board of Trustees and regional Advisory Boards. The West Coast Office is one of six in the U.S. and provides IIE services in California and five Western states. With headquarters in New York, other IIE offices are located in Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Washington, DC. IIE overseas offices are located in Hong Kong, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, and Thailand. BRIEF HISTORY Founded in 1919, IIE conducted the first student and faculty exchanges with European nations in 1920. In 1930, exchanges were initiated with the Soviet Union and Latin America. IIE has been responsible for the Graduate Fulbright Program since the passage of the Fulbright Act. It also administers the undergraduate scholarships of the National Security Education Program. With funding from the Ford Foundation, IIE began large scale programs to assist developing nations in 1950. IIE is a major contractor for USIA's International Visitor Program, which brings foreign leaders in various fields to the U.S. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS IIE's geographical scope is worldwide. Its programs involve more than 130 nations. IIE seeks to improve international understanding through thoughtful and sophisticated cross-cultural, educational exchange programs. IIE also seeks to contribute to economic and social development by assuring a sufficient international exchange of technical knowledge and skills. PROGRAMMING IIE administers scholarships; conducts its own technical exchange programs; and assists in more than 160 educational and technical exchange projects sponsored by the U.S., foreign governments, and the private sector. The San Francisco office supervises over 650 foreign students who are studying in the Western states, and administers a scholarship program for children of Raychem and Levi-Strauss & Company's overseas employees. IIE provides information to the academic community and the general public on academic institutions and admission practices here and abroad through a variety of publications, seminars, and advisory services. Current programs in the West Coast Region include the IIE Undergraduate Scholarships for Asia Pacific Study; the IIE Vocal Competition Award; and the annual West Coast Fulbright Seminar. CURRENT PRIORITIES In addition to its regular programs, IIE is particularly concerned with contributing to education in the Third World. Some programs which address these issues include the Hubert H. Humphrey North-South Fellowships for young public service professionals from the Third World, the South African Education Project for minority students, and the Alfred Friendly Fellowship Program. Both the national office and the West Coast office have expanded library and advisory services to respond to individual requests for information about study abroad. Projects in the West Coast office include contact between foreign students and local professionals and the organization of special seminars and workshops for professional and cultural exchanges. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE IIE has two kinds of membership affiliates: 1) Educational Associates, which are U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities; and 2) Program Sponsors,which are U.S. and foreign government agencies, universities, foundations, corporations, and international organizations. Community volunteers also contribute a great deal to the success of the services which IIE provides. IIE's educational and technical exchange programs serve members of the academic, corporate, and governmental sectors. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS IIE was established just as World War I ended. Its founders believed there could be no lasting peace without increased understanding between nations and that international education and exchange programs could form the basis for such understanding. Thus, IIE pursues its goal through a series of practical efforts in the exchange of students, scholars and skilled professionals. LEGAL STATUS: New York 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $96 million. FUNDING SOURCES Endowment and sponsor fees for services (90%); and grants from corporations, governments and individuals (10%). PUBLICATIONS IIE publishes standard references on international education for both foreign and U.S. nationals, e.g.: U.S. College-Sponsored Programs Abroad; Vacation Study Abroad; Teaching Abroad; Basic Facts on Study Abroad; Open Doors, an annual census of foreign students in the U.S; Educational Associate newsletter; IIE Research Report series on international education policy questions. A full listing of publications is available from IIE.