Generous gifts from former trustee Douglas Strain and philanthropist Sol Price has made this renaissance possible. Flowing from that early work in creating online communities, WBSI's current interests are first in the development of its centerpiece program, the International Leadership Forum, an online global think tank composed of eighty highly influential leaders discussing the great policy issues of our time. The Institute is also concerned with fostering improved distance education, enabling the collaboration of independent scholars, using the Internet and mass media for metaprofessional development in mental health, and in the further application of global communications technology to serve humanitarian goals. Institutes based in the United States Think tanks based in the United States Distance education institutions based in the United States 1958 establishments in California University of California, San Diego