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PAS-MBA-FY25-AEIF-01: Eswatini- Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025

Closed Closed February 15, 2025 Opportunity PAS-MBA-FY25-AEIF-01 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$35,000
• Award floor$5,000
• Total funding$105,000
• Expected awards3
• 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)

• Alumni who participated in a U.S. government-sponsored exchange program (list of exchange programs: https://alumni.state.gov/list-exchange-programs). • Alumni associations. • The proposed project must involve at least two U.S. government-sponsored exchange program alumni. • At least one of the alumni should be designated as the team lead. • If three or more alumni are applying together, U.S. citizen alumni may be included on alumni teams, but the team must have at least two non-U.S. citizen exchange program alumni. U.S. citizen alumni cannot be team leads on projects.

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

The Department of State, U.S. Embassy Eswatini, Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) is pleased to announce the roll-out of the 2025 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF). The AEIF is an annual funding opportunity designed to invest in U.S. government-funded exchange participants and programs by helping alumni develop and implement projects that promote shared interests and policy objectives and benefit local communities. We invite you to submit a Statement of Interest (SOI) of no more than two pages by January 15, 2025 for projects that meet the requirements of the program (discussed in Section C below). Applicants with competitive SOIs will subsequently be notified and invited to submit full grant applications.

Category: Other.

Applying now

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