Support for a 12th class of Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy and Practice will allow the Fund to continue to develop promising policy researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and, beginning in 2008, the Netherlands. A newly established partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport will enable two Dutch fellows to be selected each year (one supported by the Fund and the other by the Dutch ministry), and through a partnership with the B. Braun Foundation, the program will support a third German fellow to strengthen leadership in nursing policy. To maintain the Harkness program's competitiveness, the Fund in 2007 increased the fellowship award, made a research and travel supplement available to Canadian Associates, and added to the curriculum a Leadership Skills Seminar Series.