Following a luncheon on September 24, 2007, hosted by the Harvard Foundation to honor President Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic, a group of LASPAU-administered grantees studying at Harvard University and other universities in the Boston area had the opportunity to meet and speak with the President. Fernández was at Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation Medal for his creation of the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), a Dominican non-profit organization dedicated to producing public policies to strengthen democracy and governability and promoting sustainable development and the modernization of the Dominican Republic. His visit was co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Later that day President Fernández gave a public address at the Rockefeller Center entitled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example”.