Visitor Programs
Citizen Diplomacy Council of San Diego currently designs professional programs with the following organizations:
International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP):
The International Visitor Leadership Program annually brings to the
United States approximately 5,000 foreign nationals from all over the
world to meet and confer with their professional counterparts and to
experience America firsthand. The visitors, who are selected by
American Foreign Service Officers overseas, are current or potential
leaders in government, politics, the media, education, the arts,
business and other fields. Learn more...
Community Connections:
The Community Connections Program, managed by the Bureau for Europe and
Eurasia at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and
administered by World Learning, is designed to promote public diplomacy
through the exchange of cultural ideas and values among participants,
U.S. families and local community host organizations. Learn more...
Open World:
Since its founding by Congress in 1999, the Open World Program
has enabled more than 14,000 current and future Eurasian leaders to
experience American democracy, civil society and community life; work
with their American counterparts; stay in American homes; and gain new
ideas and inspiration for implementing change back home.Open
World currently operates exchanges for participants from Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. Learn more...
Fee for Service:
CDCSD's creative and experienced programmers can design high quality programs to to fit the needs of your specific international youth and professional groups. Learn more...


Visitor Programs