The Global Founders podcast highlights the work, personal journeys, and profound impact of leaders from every corner of the globe. Guests include business and social entrepreneurs, civil society activists, government officials, and academics.

Global Founders is a monthly podcast produced by The Presidential Precinct and hosted by Neal Piper. This podcast is recored at the Potter Studio at Montpelier, the home to President James Madison, the Father of the Constitution and Architect of the Bill of Rights.

Our inaugural episode of Global Founders delves into the history of the Presidential Precinct, how our past five years have impacted communities around the world, and lessons learned in entrepreneurship from our Founder, James B. Murray, Jr.

This month, we celebrate the five year anniversary of the Presidential Precinct with the launch of the Global Founders podcast: stories that inspire. After you listen to the inaugural episode of Global Founders, take this opportunity to look back at the history that drives us and ahead to the future innovations that we aspire to in our five year story.

YALI brings 1,000 African civic, business and community leaders aged 25-35 to the U.S. for six weeks of academic coursework, leadership training and networking at U.S. universities.  The Presidential Precinct will host 25 of Africa's brightest emerging civic leaders for a six-week academic and leadership institute in the summer of 2017.

Through this pilot effort, we will provide scholarships to a special cohort of online learners to participate in the Darden Massive Online Open Learning (MOOC) certificate course, "Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management," which is delivered through Coursera. This course is open for enrollment through March 1 to alumni of U.S. State Department or Global Ties U.S.-sponsored exchange programs who are also members of the Presidential Precinct Network.

The YLAI Reverse Exchange Program was launched by the U.S. State Department in partnership with the private sector "to implement collaborative community projects and strengthen partnerships between companies and organizations in the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean." Select fellowship hosts all across the U.S. will engage in over a week of travel to the YLAI Fellow's home country for collaboration on a particular initiative, conference, or entrepreneurial project.