Inter-Exchange Foundations (IEF) was established in 1998 with an approval of the Educational Commission of New York State. IEF is a non-profit organization approved by the US Internal Revenue Services (IRS). IEF is registered in the State of New York.

The mission of IEF is to promote educational cooperation and exchanges between the United States and China via a variety of programs. Because of the mission, well-established good reputation and extensive experience of IEF, various program sponsored or organized by IEF have received a wide range of supports and help from many agencies and organizations, such as US Congress, US State offices, US consulate general in China, Chinese consulate general in US, and many educational offices in China. Former chairman of Foreign Relationship Committee of the US Congress and Ambassadors of Chinese Consulate General in New York visited and gave speeches many times at IEF's summer camp program. Superintendents of school district, US local officials and Chinese counselors meet and talk with the camp participants every year. Currently, the long-term partners of IEF include Clarkstown Central School District, St. Thomas Aquinas College, JiangSu Education Services for International Exchange, Suzhou Association of International Education Exchange, Changzhou International Center for Education Exchange and many other education offices and agencies in US and China.

Based on its mission, IEF successfully organized its group trips in 1995 and 1996, respectively, for US and Chinese students and teachers to visit each other. The activities not only had a big and positive impact on US school program, but also set up the 1st example for Chinese students/teachers coming to US for summer camp. Since then, IEF has been successful and continuously running its summer camp for international education exchange. In the last ten years, more than thousand of students, teachers and education administrators from China have participated in IEF's summer program in New York. They have spent time with American students and teachers, taken English conversational classes, visited our local government and community, and toured many educational institutes including Harvard, MIT, Yale, and West Point Academy. The Chinese participants have also been very impressed with the magnificent landmarks in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Niagara Falls. All the Chinese students and teachers have safely returned back to China. IEF has a perfect return-on-time record. All of the Chinese participants have a much better understanding of American people, education, culture, and social system after this three-week program, and many of them have become strong advocates of this kind of exchange.

IEF also organizes the educational trips for US students and teachers to visit China. For example, in its Spring Break program, US students and teachers spent eight to ten days in China. The program covered several most important cities in the east cost of China: Shanghai - the economic center of Asia to see the prosperity of China; TongLi - a water village to see the beauty of a small town of China; Suzhou - so called "a Haven on the earth"; Nanjing - the rich history of China; Wuxi - a beautiful city by Tai-Lake, and of course, Beijing - the capital of China with a largest man-made construction on the earth, the Great Wall. The students, teachers and education administers also had the chance to visit a typical school in China to exchange experience with Chinese counterparts. Through these programs, visiting Americans have enjoyed learning about the rich culture, history, language, and customs of China.