The American Exchange Project
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2019, the American Exchange Project’s (AEP) mission is to foster meaningful connection between Americans from different political, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds. Its program brings high school seniors together for a two-week domestic exchange program. The experience consists of a week-long trip to an American hometown radically different from the one participating students call home, followed by a week where those students host other seniors in their hometown. In just four years, AEP has sent nearly 1,000 students on more than 150 exchanges across 36 states. With Corporation support, AEP will increase capacity from 650 seniors to 3,000 students annually in all 50 states to encourage meaningful dialogue between people across lines of difference and equip young people with the knowledge, skills, disposition, and agency to actively engage as members of their communities, states, and country.