<div dir="ltr"><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Planners,</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Eisenhower Fellowships is launching their recruitment for the 2025 Zhi-Xing China Program. This competitive program offers ascendant U.S. leaders the opportunity to travel throughout China on a month-long fellowship, pursuing individual projects and engaging in transformative exchanges of knowledge and ideas with leading thinkers in their respective fields. The fellowship will take place in summer 2025.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The deadline to apply is Friday, October 11, 2024. Finalists will be invited to participate in an in-person interview with a joint panel of U.S. and Chinese leaders in Philadelphia in late November (</span><a href="https://rkfytlxab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UvUEEbMK64S1k9J7XU_qHyz6v5rCVxM9Tb-Buqan6gGzmhDUrK1MaT2Q_LjaN2wHbmzcXg2NPo8pexJFHTFygKax2z6_mU8i2o8DucW9ZtTyCrT64Kt9zNd61DIvTvi5JSy3dk8LMCdzSXWBpnY1TEhroQ7rmtxJpRufRjwD2TBpOt8UwFV1WaNW0b4gM1G9QSYbWXvpv98WPdgzs03zeccloownXfF0zd2t3w5_6GVWBYapcPYxpnzh66fCXLJ3YCSMRQxsXT9QBoRPkUjByWl4ldfCxVbg5vEk9MX7UtbVRoczekFpszpiEj-T-EKge9WIXGkbl8EoiF0LaZ0nKB7RyttlzOPlA0V5z6O8U4QfDR1IRNNWeWHWe5RHYotRC0CoQSd1wxjFs6_hZ92X9NrA2uWKgSrAcfdBdTevno2abzFAuldB-orNZ4D6S2yQJm96qlEI9Jc=&c=1JTDcao0YS4KtL3kBf2mIob2ha48GVCIp5hqKz3Lbhbd9iFj54snvA==&ch=ZBrnn3TolP-LHJWv2lELdaF31iKlW7wyCRnt4CRr71UphnzK7XCVsw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,114,177);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold">the flyer linked here</a>)<a href="https://rkfytlxab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UvUEEbMK64S1k9J7XU_qHyz6v5rCVxM9Tb-Buqan6gGzmhDUrK1MaT2Q_LjaN2wH2-M4vRBCs98JoTmVxlklc9xbCuOZbIxoCb_k45zCA6uxVbRDJw7txjn2U0oipnC8QfrKCv2MBSkcIYtyxHjbyJVN4qAG2oyl3sYYpk7Fp-a96yIK6FWSaW5U2yz_Do9fssXnCjwQ-xIokVH-MgV-pw2HOf6-9MQ31gWrGyzxxAmHip2-4c0gerxdGlpUt49HWBiVfEqv5W-L9WLiCc8BOqv_k-mrfBJhR8a6bKOczYJC4DwxPZT2yJcV2onclVYeMONOSTdJAqsg92dCxLgmB_Ci7Lnicv5dyX30d3lyRUw0zy3T97ON6WCKekcBo5u1KP1IFl_5EGh0jeol20AcCEzCp6BVlWq9ytXcZrwcWGEN2696zuztYHP6vcrn8OCiE-DZa6F-WbY=&c=1JTDcao0YS4KtL3kBf2mIob2ha48GVCIp5hqKz3Lbhbd9iFj54snvA==&ch=ZBrnn3TolP-LHJWv2lELdaF31iKlW7wyCRnt4CRr71UphnzK7XCVsw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold"> </a><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:black">Feel free to reach out to Nico Mendoza, Director of USA Programs (</span><a href="mailto:nmendoza@efworld.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,114,177);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold">nmendoza@efworld.org</a><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:black">) with any questions.</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> For more information on applying to this program click </span><a href="https://rkfytlxab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UvUEEbMK64S1k9J7XU_qHyz6v5rCVxM9Tb-Buqan6gGzmhDUrK1MaZivBsEjwWJFUKOr4LEf4muX0-FjTD5kGZY3Ro8oJ1TJc574yt5Y8FnKpRntnGqoxOkFlANU-RrjJ_8PCPjQ0oB7gP9lu2jZZVcEoYu8FjU9q_BIiqe5tUU=&c=1JTDcao0YS4KtL3kBf2mIob2ha48GVCIp5hqKz3Lbhbd9iFj54snvA==&ch=ZBrnn3TolP-LHJWv2lELdaF31iKlW7wyCRnt4CRr71UphnzK7XCVsw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,114,177);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold">here</a><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p align="justify" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic, Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">I had an Eisenhower fellowship early in my career (to Budapest for me), and it was an amazing experience. </span></font></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><i><font color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wayne Feiden FAICP</font></i></div><div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(12,100,192)"><i style="font-size:14pt">Director Center for Resilient Metro-Regions and </i><i style="font-size:14pt">Lecturer of Planning Practice, </i><i style="font-size:14pt">University of Massachusetts, Amherst</i><br></div></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(12,100,192)"><i>Principal, Plan Sustain, Inc.</i></div></div></div></div></div>