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DOS-LONDON-PD-2024-02: Promoting a Better Understanding of the United States through American Studies

Closed Closed February 15, 2024 Opportunity DOS-LONDON-PD-2024-02 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$200,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations. Public and private educational institutions. Individuals. Public international organizations and governmental institutions.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Special International Exchange Grant Programs awards averaged $1.7 million; this notice allows up to $200,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The U.S. Embassy to the United Kingdom’s Public Affairs Section (PAS) London invites eligible organizations to submit proposals to develop and implement a small grants program to foster American studies in the United Kingdom through exchanges, speaker programs, and conferences. Initiatives should be designed to promote a more accurate and positive image of the United States. Strictly subject to the availability of funds, PAS expects to select one program implementer for a grant award up to $200,000. In this solicitation, the U.S. Embassy to the United Kingdom’s Public Affairs Section seeks proposals to develop and administer a small grants program to support the study of the United States in the United Kingdom in primary and secondary schools and universities. The grants program should: · Encourage more demand for the pursuit of American studies as a specialized field of study. · Recruit for and spread awareness of American studies as a field of study for primary and secondary school students, with a focus on diversity. · Encourage work in the field of American studies across academic societies and within universities. · Support program activities throughout the United Kingdom, particularly outside of London. Proposals should outline how the program implementer will manage, administer, and evaluate projects through small grants up to $25,000 or its equivalent in pounds sterling. Proposals should also define an award selection process based on merit, geographic and thematic diversity, feasibility of proposed programs, impact to beneficiaries, monitoring and evaluation techniques, project sustainability, and cultivation of lasting and productive relationships between participants from the United States and the United Kingdom. Ideally, the most competitive proposal would dedicate the largest portion of the budget to the small grants segment. Applicants must have the demonstrated experience and ability to provide guidance to and monitor projects that would focus on building a more accurate understanding of the United States to include: · Faculty development and exchange. · Non-partisan programming on the 2024 U.S. election. · Curriculum development at all education levels, especially primary and secondary levels. · Student exchanges. · Speaker programs. · Film or other arts programming; and · Conferences.

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Applying now

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