[1] Mary Eisenhower was born in Washington, D.C., during her grandfather's first term and christened in the Blue Room of the White House.

Eisenhower began her career working on Capitol Hill and then managed an engineering firm.

In the last six years, Eisenhower has left United States soil over 70 times and visited over 40 countries.

Missions have ranged from meeting first families to distributing foodstuffs in developing countries to cultural and humanitarian exchanges.

The Fund is designed to enable individuals to support the service-oriented facilities they visit throughout the world and to provide a mechanism through which the network of PTPI Chapters can assist one another.

Today, the fund has supported causes ranging from the Global Humanitarian Eradication of Landmines, Children's Mercy Hospital in London, England, United Kingdom, earthquake relief in India, disaster relief to victims of September 11 attacks, and their families, support of under resourced schools in China and Sri Lanka, a home for leukemia victims and their families in Cuba, to a library project in Vietnam and the Friends of Egypt organization.

[5] After the September 11 attacks, Eisenhower became intently focused upon bringing young people from around the globe into contact with one another in order to expose them to diverse cultures and conflict management tools that might facilitate the amelioration of long-standing disputes.