In addition to Seattle, the foundation has offices in Washington, DC, London, New Delhi, India and in Beijing, China. Global travel security concerns are just the beginning. Barndt recently spoke with CSO about the security plan for the new headquarters building, which is currently under construction.

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All of our offices are networked and all locations head in here to Seattle. The Global Security team and I have visibility of what is going on in all of the offices as well as our global travelers. So there is continuous monitoring for our global operations.

In Washington, DC and in Europe, the programs are more about advocacy. They are about our alliances and the collaboration we do with public policy and forwarding the mission of the foundation. In India, the emphasis on staff there is on HIV/AIDS advocacy and education and prevention. It is the same mission in China. We are working with the Chinese government on their strategy for outreach, testing and prevention. We work directly with those governments.

Our staff doesn't do direct service and deliver. We fund through grantees, but we aren't in direct service. While we have staff that travel frequently, we are not so much boots on the ground. Instead, staff are helping determine what is the strategy for our funding and doing due diligence around who we are funding. We have a contract with these folks so they are making sure those deliverables and milestones are met and provide assistance to fulfill that grant.