World Partnerships Inc

World Partnerships is a unique global human network of 4,700+ New Generation leaders, our IVLP and Fulbright alumni partners in 188 countries. They are business and political leaders, journalists, educators, pioneering women leaders, community organizers, policy officials, environmental activists and young entrepreneurs, all engaged in changing the world. 

World Partnerships has brought them all to Tampa Bay as the regional partner of the US Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program.

World Partnerships brings value to this community every day:

• Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, serving the 8-County Tampa Bay region.
• Selected to host 4,700+ IVLP leaders from 188 countries over the last 18 years.
• World Partnerships has hosted over 1,700 journalists.
  • Host for State’s most prestigious journalism project – The “Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists” – bringing nearly 200 journalists in one program in 2015 and 2016. 
• Annual average 2,000+ hotel room nights.
• Approximately $1,000,000 annual total economic impact (Hotels, transportation, food and beverage, entertainment, cultural activities & personal purchases.)
• 30,000+ professional meetings conducted in this community.
  • Businesses, public officials, educators & students, media and civil society leaders. 
• Won and conducted Florida’s first-ever “Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar” in 2014. 
  • (65 scientists, academics and researchers from 41 countries) 
• Selected host of US Foreign Service Institute (USDOS) training programs for US Embassy officials.
• Provide global education for 17,000 students annually at Enterprise Village.
• Connect college student interns with a unique global network of young leaders.

World Partnerships alumni have experienced the best of Tampa Bay and returned home to change their worlds: 

• Creating the first national Cancer Control Board in Kosovo. 
• Establishing the first national “blood drive” in Nepal.
• Introducing new education, training and business partnerships in Kenya.
• Expanding job skills for impoverished women, youth at risk and the handicapped in Nigeria.
• Inspiring Africa’s first continent-wide “fact-checking” journalist coalition.
• Empowering an Indian “Upcycling” NGO go global with product sales.
• Inspiring the writer of Mexico’s “open records” laws in the public sector.
• Creating a patient advocacy initiative in Macedonia.
• Learning pediatric emergency room procedures to save young lives in Yemen.
• Providing tools for career education in the UAE.
• Introducing community-policing techniques in dozens of countries.
• Empowering the new generation of women leaders around the world.

The nexus of this global group is right here in Tampa Bay. Sitting around conference room tables. Walking through educational facilities. Breaking bread around a dining room table. Visiting a newsroom. Walking through a solar farm. Restoring a barrier island beach. Sailing into one of our sunsets. 

But most importantly, the work we do every day in Tampa Bay makes friends for our country. When you welcome these leaders into your office, into your home, and into your lives, you are serving your country in a very personal, and important, way. You change minds, and you warm hearts. You become an intense and lasting part of their American experience. Every interaction makes a meaningful difference in your world, and in theirs. When these young leaders return home, they are vital friends and connections of US diplomacy. You are serving your country as a true "citizen diplomat."

Your support can and will make a difference. Because the leaders we work with, every day, make a difference.

Every interaction makes a meaningful difference in the world. You change minds, and you warm hearts. You are an intense and lasting part of their American experience. And you inspire these young leaders to make the world a better place for their children and grandchildren, and for ours.

Support World Partnerships, and be a part of the good things that are happening