Four years of co-coordinating the TOMODACHI US-Japan Youth Exchange Program taught us that we needed to do more to support DC students’ interest in Japan.
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Opening the world to our city’s youth
Globalize DC focuses exclusively on increasing access for DC’s public school students to high quality global education, language learning, and study abroad opportunities. We have adopted five strategies to do this work.
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Connecting to a global city
Washington, DC is both our home town and a global capital. Globalize DC works to bridge the gap between the city’s unique wealth of global resources and our own local students, educators, and schools.
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Join the movement
We can’t do this work without you! Your financial contribution will help us build a strong organization that makes a real difference in the lives of our city’s young people. No gift can be too big or too small.
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Focus: Japan
Konnichiwa! This school year we’re all in on Japan. Read about our growing menu of Japan related programming for students and learn how you can get involved.
Opportunities For Students
The Experiment Digital Climate Change and the Environment
Program Dates: June 23-Aug 17, 2025
Priority App Deadline: Feb 21, 2025; Final Deadline: May 12, 2025
A free eight-week virtual exchange on the environment for teens from the US and Latin America.
The Experiment Digital Leadership in STEM
Program Dates: June 23-Aug 3, 2025
Priority App Deadline: Feb 21, 2025; Final Deadline: May 12, 2025
Free six-week STEM-focused virtual exchange between teens in the US and Middle East/North Africa region.
Opportunities for Educators/Schools
NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellowship
Program Dates: SY2025-26; travel in summer 2026
App Deadline: Apr 7, 2025
A fully funded 12-month PD program for K-12 public school teachers, including an international summer field experience.
DIRECTOR’S BLOG
Where we stand in this moment
April 1, 2025
Happy cherry blossom season! For the last few months we’ve all, in our own ways, been grappling with the new administration’s dramatic policy changes roiling the city, the nation, and the world. For those of us involved in global education or other international work, the impacts have already been quite real and devastating. Our hearts go out to all those - at home and abroad - who are directly affected by budget cuts . . . .
Beyond The Wall
This moving one-hour documentary, about four DC teens in China, is the perfect way to create conversations about the life-transforming impact of study abroad and global education.