Since 1970 have negotiated with various local Soviet organizations (police, hospitals, restaurants, Intourist) for the satisfactory resolution of perceived problems.
 

1989 arranged the first college student work exchange program between the USSR and the USA with one of the first quasi-private enterprises in Moscow. The American students lived with Soviet student work brigades and worked with them on construction projects. In America, the Soviet students worked for McDonald's, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Habitat for Humanity. 
 

1990 and 1991 initiated, developed, and negotiated three win/win academic exchange programs for Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Kaunas (Lithuania), St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Exchanges were based on equality, not on charity for the Russians, each side receiving real value Agreements were structured to overcome Soviet habit of favoring party hacks.