※ 引述《behappy0924 (铁饭团)》之铭言：
: 1.媒体来源:青年日报
: 2.完整新闻标题/内文:
: 马总统：我追求和平信念获国际肯定 此新闻见报日：2014/9/20
: 记者张晏彰、谢璿／台北报导
: 马总统昨日获颁国际国民外交协会（PTPI）艾森豪和平奖，成为我国政治人物
: 获此殊荣首例。
忍不住好奇，查了一下PTPI的资料，发现一些有趣的事情。
这个基金会确实是艾森豪成立的，后来私有化，成为非营利组织。
但PTPI基金会和一个营利组织 Ambassadors Group International
关系很密切，它是个在NASDAQ上市的旅行社，包揽了PTPI所有的
旅行业务。接着有趣的事情来了....
PTPI每年对美国的学生乱枪打鸟般的发出邀请函，都说学校老师
推荐他们参加由PTPI筹办的活动，收费不低。美国的大学因为
是申请入学的，所以收到信的学生和家长常常会认为这活动对学生
日后进入名校有所帮助，因此而加入这些不便宜的旅行活动，
有些人认为这根本是赚钱的伎俩。
我很好奇啦，马皇得到这个和平奖，是不是因为我国的驻外单位
对这组织有些让人惊艳的贡献所致呢？
https://www.lifamilies.com/(S(bhygvtes1sdusdfqc1szwycq))
/chat/topic-any-teachers-ever-hear-of-a-program-
called-people-to-people-international-370927-1.html
Organizations like that send mass invitations to students. They make it seem
like a honor to be selected. But it is really just a mass mailing!
We have students who come into school all the time very excited and then I
have to burst their bubble.
They charge a bundle to attend their invitation only program!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/people-to-people-ambassador-programs-spokane
This program has a cute marketing scheme. They approach teachers to
"nominate" children for the program to create the illusion of selectivity.
It is really just a clever way of generating a mailing list. They invoke
Eisenhower's name as founder though he actually founded the non-profit
organization. This is a for-profit organization.
The administrative arm of the organization is inept. As a "nominated" child,
our son was automatically "accepted." He was interested in going with a
friend who was also "nominated." The friend enrolled by mail, and the
people-to-people office lost the enrollment form. We applied on-line, but
the web page was unable to accept his pin number. After 30 minutes on the
phone talking with a nice but ineffective representative, we decided that an
organization that could not manage the simple process of enrolling students
could not be trusted to ensure the safety of our child.
另外一家长说：
Went to orientation, signed up. Four weeks later no word from
Representative. I call to cancel because the orientation said there would be
an interview and someone would contact us. When I called to cancel they
charged me 95 dollars out of the $400 I gave them. They went on to scold me
that I did not call them. I am NOT going to trust an organization to have my
child travel with them if they cannot follow through on the application
process and then charge me for me holding them accountable. RUN...don't walk
from People to People. They may have had a good reputation in the past but
not anymore.
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