YFU Alum & Trustee Returns to Everest: Update #6
We’re excited to share that YFU Alum & Board member Andrew has summited Everest!
Read More YFU USA Exchanges Once Again Recognized for Quality and Safety
Youth For Understanding USA (YFU) is pleased to announce that The Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET) continues to…
Read More From Cold War to travel ban, Ann Arbor-founded exchange program promotes “one-on-one diplomacy”
Deb Anderson sums up Youth For Understanding (YFU), the nonprofit her grandmother founded 65 years ago in Ann Arbor, with a simple…
Read More Summer’s a great time to dive into a foreign language
“For a lot of kids, summer is a time to travel intellectually as well as literally, to dive headlong into new languages and cultures in a way that classroom learning…
Read More YFU Alum Morten Andersen named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
NFL’s all-time leading scorer (and YFU alum), Morten Andersen named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame! “The leading scorer in NFL history didn’t know the first thing about American…
Read More A Practical Approach to Peace: The Case for International Exchange
Given last week’s Executive Order (EO) barring entry to the United States of individuals from seven different countries (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia), there has, understandably, been much…
Read More YFU Alum Sylvia Matthews Burwell Named American University’s 15th President
“Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who was most recently the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under former President Barack Obama, has been named the 15th…
Read More Exchange program creates family bond
Vaughn and Kathy Flesner, standing at left, pose for a picture with their current “family,” seated, from left, Kamryn Flesner, Eden Klauser, German exchange student Adrian Umbriet, Brekken Flesner, Danish…
Read More Certificate of Global Citizenship Awarded to Roosevelt High School
This spring, Des Moines educator Andrea Sutton was invited by international educational nonprofit Youth For Understanding USA (YFU) to engage…
Read More Celebrating 65 Years of Person-to-Person Exchanges
Youth For Understanding USA (YFU), a global leader in nonprofit educational exchanges, celebrated its 65th anniversary on October 26th with…
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