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FY25-PHL-AWE: 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Philippines

Closed Closed January 13, 2025 Opportunity FY25-PHL-AWE ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$35,000
• Award floor$30,000
• 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 Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants awards averaged $17,021; this notice allows up to $35,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Goals and Objectives The U.S. Embassy in the Philippines is pleased to announce the call for FY2025 proposals to implement the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a hybrid course giving women the knowledge, networks, and access they need to launch and scale successful businesses. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs established AWE in 2019 and directly supports the U.S. National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality. AWE has empowered an estimated 25,000 women entrepreneurs in more than eighty countries. AWE uses a hybrid model that combines the online platform DreamBuilder, developed through a partnership between Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management and global copper mining company Freeport-McMoRan, with in-class mentoring and facilitation. Through AWE, participants learn core business skills, then get together as a class to discuss the material with experienced implementers, local mentors, and U.S. Exchange Alumni. Partnerships with local NGOs, universities, and chambers of commerce offer women the opportunity to amplify their newly learned business skills and network with other businesspeople through speed mentoring, pitch competitions, and entrepreneurship fairs. AWE is only available in English and Spanish, though partners may conduct mentoring and facilitation in local languages. In the Philippines, the U.S. Embassy’s American Center Manila launched AWE in 2020. There are currently 456 AWE graduates in the Philippines with programs in Bacolod, Baguio, Bohol, Cebu, Manila, Marawi, Puerto Princesa, Quezon city, and Zamboanga del Sur. AWE graduates include women from internally displaced communities, fisherfolk, and victims of violence and natural disasters. AWE graduates also include sustainable development and eco-product innovators, agricultural researchers, and tech-based innovators. The proposals should meet the following objectives: • Run eight AWE cohorts of approximately 25-30 women. To ensure program sustainability and engagement with AWE graduates, cohorts must be located in Bacolod, Baguio, Bohol, Cebu, Manila, Puerto Princesa, Quezon City, and Zamboanga del Sur. At least five of these eight cohorts will be managed through a sub-award with the U.S. Embassy’s American Corners (https://ph.usembassy.gov/education/american-spaces/) and AWE alumnae.

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