Ayusa

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AYUSA
Company typeNon-profit
IndustryEducation
Founded United States: San Francisco
Revenue5,592,409 United States dollar (2022)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Total assets 3,185,280 United States dollar (2022)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website ayusa.org

Ayusa (Ayusa International) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote global learning and leadership through foreign exchange, study abroad, and leadership programs for high school students from the U.S. and around the world. [1] The organization was co-founded by John Wilhelm and Takeshi Yokota in 1981 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. John Wilhelm and Takeshi Yokota also founded Intrax.

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Ayusa is a founding member of the Counsel on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET) and has received a full listing as an accredited exchange organization for 25 years, since CSIET's inception. [2]

Ayusa matches American host families (in all 50 states) with international high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 years old for an academic year or semester. [3] [4] Ayusa also has various short and long-term study abroad programs for American high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 years old. [5]

Programs

Grant programs

Ayusa currently administers several grant programs funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State including the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs (YES) [6] [7] [8] and the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX). [9] In the past, Ayusa has also administered several other U.S. Department of State grants, including the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX), [10] the Mexico Youth Leadership Program (Jóvenes en Acción), [11] [12] and the Emerging Youth Leaders Program.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Xi Jinping Iowa visit echoes past trips by future stars" BBC News. February 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ "CSIET: Council on Standards for International Educational Travel". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  3. ↑ “Merna woman helps place foreign exchange students with host families” Kearney Hub. April 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Exchange students waiting for host families, friendship" The Oakland Press. March 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Studying Abroad" Archived April 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine The Lincoln Courier. October 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ "About | YES Program". Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  7. ↑ "Find Exchange Funding to the U.S." 18 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Muslim students say YES to the U.S. - CSMonitor.com". The Christian Science Monitor . 16 September 2008.
  9. ↑ "About CBYX – CBYX". 12 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "Home".
  11. ↑ "La Jornada: Es preocupante el mundo de la violencia: Carlos Pascual a estudiantes mexicanos". 20 July 2010.
  12. ↑ "Incursionan en el narco, cada vez más jóvenes | EL ECONOMISTA Política".
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