The workshop was conducted by Svitlana Buko, a professional trainer with extensive experience in project management, team leadership, quantitative research and social planning in Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. The goals for the training were to: demonstrate different challenges of time management, discuss and practice key steps of successful planning strategy development, and review classical and innovative planning tools including operative and strategic planning.

As part of her visit to Ukraine, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at Kyiv-Polytechnic Institute to a crowd of 300 young leaders and activists on July 2, 2010.

Bolstered by their success, Andriy Maksymovych and Mykola Pekh sought to not only continue the Race for Children campaign, but also use the experience of running such a large project to train others in community development techniques

While at the University of Nebraska-Kearny, Anna Tsyrdia (UGRAD 2008-2009), volunteered at the Kearny public library, where she was impressed by the facilities and special services provided for disabled people. Soon after Anna returned to Donetsk, Ukraine, in summer, 2009, she met Larysa Sayevych, the head of the Donetsk Center for the Visually Impaired, and Liudmyla Gusleva, the chairman of Donetsk City Organization for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and realized that there was an opportunity to improve assistance to disabled people in Donetsk.

Having worked for several different Ukrainian investment companies, Andriy Klymchuk (Muskie 2003) was very familiar with the investment climate in Ukraine. Although there was significant money to be made by investment companies, there was often little regard for transparency and honesty in the way that the deals were concluded and honored. Convinced that this behavior was detrimental to future investment and economic development in Ukraine, Mr. Klymchuk and other Muskie alumni began working on setting up CFA Ukraine, the Ukrainian Society of Investment Professionals, which is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Association.