Dear\u00a0[Senator\/Congressman\/Congresswoman\u00a0name],<\/p>\n
My name is [_____] and I\u2019m a [add\u00a0<\/i>your profession<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>or:\u00a0resident\u00a0of\u00a0[state]\u00a0\/\u00a0resident of Congressman\u00a0\/\u00a0Congresswoman\u00a0name\u2019s\u00a0district.] I\u2019m writing you to today to\u00a0ask you to support\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Department of State\u2019s\u00a0educational and cultural exchange programs.<\/p>\n
The Administration recently recommended cutting funding for\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Department of State\u2019s\u00a0educational and cultural exchange programs by almost 56%, from $700.9 million to 309.6 million.\u00a0A cut like this would harm people-to-people diplomacy and exchange programs like\u00a0the [name your exchange program, examples: Summer Work Travel\u00a0program, Intern, Trainee, Teacher, Secondary Student, Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study, Future Leaders Exchange Program], which I\u2019ve been involved with\u00a0for [X]\u00a0year(s).<\/p>\n
As a [describe your role, for example<\/i>: host, local coordinator, supervisor, colleague],\u00a0I\u2019ve seen first-hand the positive impact that exchange programs have on our [district\/state]. [Share\u00a0<\/i>a<\/i>\u00a0personal story<\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>Use the Greenheart Club resource, \u201c<\/i>How to Tell Your Human Story<\/i><\/a>,\u201d for tips on honing your personal story for effective advocacy<\/i>].<\/p>\n Exchange programs [choose\u00a0<\/i>2 or 3<\/i>\u00a0benefit<\/i>s<\/i>\u00a0to highlight, for example<\/i>: support 21st-century learning,\u00a0support our local businesses\/schools, prepare Americans to succeed in the global economy, foster mutual understanding].\u00a0I\u00a0urge [Senator\/Congressman\/Congresswoman\u00a0name] to support funding State Department educational and cultural exchange programs at current levels and to support a transparent review process, including Congressional oversight before any changes are made to the Exchange Visitor Program.<\/p>\n Thank you,<\/p>\n[Your Name]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear\u00a0[Senator\/Congressman\/Congresswoman\u00a0name], My name is [_____] and I\u2019m a [add\u00a0your profession\u00a0or:\u00a0resident\u00a0of\u00a0[state]\u00a0\/\u00a0resident of Congressman\u00a0\/\u00a0Congresswoman\u00a0name\u2019s\u00a0district.] I\u2019m writing you to today to\u00a0ask you to support\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Department of State\u2019s\u00a0educational and cultural exchange <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21631,"featured_media":0,"parent":15698,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17677","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/21631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17677\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}