Sponsored Programs Coordinator

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Sponsored Programs Coordinator

A Sponsored Programs Coordinator is a volunteer who plans, arranges, and co-ordinates enrichment activities for a sponsored programs cluster and documents the activity so the sponsor (usually the U.S. government) could if it chose determine that the activities met the program requirements.

A Sponsored Programs Coordinator is also known as a cluster coordinator.

Cluster

A cluster generally refers to a group of 3 or more Sponsored Program students in a relatively small geographical area. Sponsored Program students are required to participate in a number of "enrichment activities" intended to be educational (and fun) dealing with the general topics of "Volunteerism"; "Cultural Diversity"; or "Government."

Sponsored Programs

Current sponsored programs include:

• FLEX - Future Leader's EXchange

This is a program funded by the U.S. Government to reach out to the 18 countries created when the Soviet Union fell apart. It provides full scholarships to outstanding students from the "emerging Soviet Republics" to come for a year exchange in the United States.

FLEX students are divided out to a variety of different exchange programs, including AFS.

• YES - Youth Exchange and Study

This is a program funded by the U.S. Government to reach out to countries with significant Muslim populations.

• CB - Congress Bundestag

This program is jointly funded by the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. It sends German students to the U.S. and U.S. students to Germany.