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OFOP0001693: Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 (AEIF 2025)

Closed Closed February 1, 2025 Opportunity OFOP0001693 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$35,000
• Award floor$5,000
• Total funding$70,000
• Expected awards2
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeOther

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)

Applicants must be Qatari citizen or Third Country Nationals who are based in Qatar. Applicants must be alumni of a U.S. government-funded or sponsored exchange program (https://j1visa.state.gov/). Projects teams must include at least two (2) alumni. Team members can be members of more than one project. A team member can be part of multiple teams. Alumni who are U.S. citizens may not submit proposals, but they can participate as team members in a project. Alumni teams may be comprised of alumni from different exchange programs and different countries. Exchange alumni can partner with not-for-profit or non-governmental organizations, think tanks, and academic institutions to implement project activities. The grant can be issued to the individual alumni or the partner organization.

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

U.S. Embassy Doha invites past participants (“alumni”) of U.S. government-sponsored Exchange programs to apply for the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 (AEIF 2025). Proposals must include teams of at least two alumni that meet all program eligibility requirements. AEIF provides alumni with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community. U.S. Embassy Doha will accept projects proposed and managed by teams that include at least two (2) alumni and support the following objectives: • Bringing alumni together from different exchange programs to build and expand alumni networks and to increase regional and global alumni collaboration. • Encouraging the local population to act against Climate Change, including crafting creative solutions to environmental challenges, green energy, and climate change adaptation. • Supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, and STEM fields to expand economic empowerment of Women, Youth, and Underserved Populations. • Encouraging youth to participate in civic life through social entrepreneurship, volunteerism, and community engagement. • Encouraging students to choose the United States for their educational needs and for English language learning. Proposals that do not address these objectives will be deemed ineligible. All project activities must take place outside of the United States and its territories. Please follow all instructions detailed here and in the attached Full Notice of Funding Opportunity titled "Notice of Funding Opportunity AEIF 2025 - OFOP0001693." Proposals that do not meet the requirements of this announcement or fail to comply with the stated requirements will be ineligible.

Category: Community Development.

Applying now

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