Partnership for a Secure America, Inc.
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
Growing political polarization and turnover on Capitol Hill has narrowed the space for lawmakers and their staff members to conduct policy conversations across the aisle. The Partnership for a Secure America addresses these challenges through its Congressional Partnership Program, which hosts educational sessions with foreign policy subject matter experts and provides forums for staffers to develop trust and relevant knowledge on peace and security issues. With continued support, the program will hold regular biannual sessions and alumni initiatives, enhancing the capacity for strong working relationships and cooperative policymaking among staffers.
Website
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both Members and their staff limit their ability to focus on complex or long-term challenges. In addition, political divides have narrowed the space for those on the Hill to engage in policy conversations with peers across the aisle. Partnership for a Secure America addresses these challenges through its Congressional Partnership Program for staffers. The program provides educational sessions with subject matter experts and bipartisan forums that build trust, negotiation skills, and relevant knowledge on peace and security issues. With continued Corporation support, the program will hold biannual sessions as well as alumni initiatives.
Website
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff limit their chances to focus on complex or long-term challenges. In addition, political divides have narrowed the space for those on the Hill to engage in policy conversations with peers across the aisle. The Partnership for a Secure America aims to address these challenges through its Congressional Partnership Program for staffers. The program provides educational sessions with subject matter experts and bipartisan forums that build trust, negotiation skills, and relevant knowledge on peace and security issues. With continued Corporation support, the program will hold two three-month training programs and three alumni series each year.
Website
Project Title
As a one-time only grant for support of the New Congressional Staff Partnership Program
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
35 months
Description
To build collegial working relationships across the aisle and improve the efficacy of Congress as a policymaking and oversight body, the Partnership for a Secure America designed the New Congressional Staff Partnership Program for incoming Congressional staffers. The program will address the issue of division between parties and the legislative and executive branches of government by connecting new Hill staff with bipartisan congressional staff mentors and counterparts at the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The program will focus on practical ways to help improve interactions, restore trust, and build better communication and understanding between the two branches of government.
Website
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff limits their chances to focus on complex or long-term challenges. At the same time, the political divides have narrowed the space for those on the Hill to engage in policy conversations with peers across the aisle. The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) aims to address these challenges through its Congressional Partnership Program for staffers. The program provides educational sessions with subject matter experts and bipartisan forums that build trust, negotiation skills, and relevant knowledge on peace and security issues. With continued Corporation support, the program will hold two three-month training programs, three alumni dinner series, and an international learning trip each year.
Website
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) was founded by Lee Hamilton and Warren Rudman in an effort to help diminish the partisan gridlock that prevents Congress from doing its job. PSA’s Congressional Partnership Program helps senior congressional staffers build the skills, knowledge, and relationships needed for productive bipartisan action. The program creates opportunities for staffers from across the political spectrum to discuss important foreign policy and national security questions, develop consensus building skills, and participate in an alumni network that remains dedicated to cooperative action across party lines. PSA will organize events for staffers with policymakers, former officials, policy analysts, journalists, and experts. It will also provide travel opportunities to expand the staffers’ perspectives.
Website
Project Title
For implementing positive changes to the International Atomic Energy Agency Partnering Capacity
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recently sought to engage the non-State donor community, including the private sector, but with little success so far. In 2014 the Corporation made a grant to Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) to convene a working group of experts to assess this challenge. The group included seventeen former ambassadors to the IAEA, former senior IAEA officials, and outside analysts from all of the regional groups recognized by the Agency to explore whether non-traditional donors could help address funding deficiencies in nuclear security and technical cooperation. This grant will allow PSA to conduct follow-on outreach activities to promote their findings, including briefings to key diplomatic missions to the IAEA, Agency leadership, staff, and select members of the media.
Website
Project Title
For the Congressional Partnership Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
Website
Project Title
For a project to strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency through informed partnerships
Date
Jun. 12, 2014
Duration
29 months
Website
Project Title
For a project to develop upcoming U.S. congressional staff leaders on international peace and security issues
Date
Mar. 07, 2013
Duration
24 months
Website
Project Title
For a project to develop upcoming U.S. Congressional staff leaders on international peace and security issues
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
24 months
Website
Project Title
Toward a project to develop the next generation of U.S. Congressional staffers on international peace and security issues
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
24 months
Website
Project Title
One-time funding toward support
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
12 months