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PASNOFO-22-02: Historical Research and Interview with Ethiopian Survivors of Yekatit 12

Closed Closed April 7, 2022 Opportunity PASNOFO-22-02 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Austrian-American Partnership Fund (AAPF) (OFOP0002825). Status: Closes January 1, 2099 (26353 days left). It is in our archive of U.S. Mission to Ethiopia notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$8,000
• Award floor$1,000
• Total funding$8,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

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)

Both U.S. and foreign organizations and individuals are welcome to apply, on the condition that they must already have personnel already in Ethiopia able to carry out all the work of the grant. The grant funds will not pay for travel from any outside location into Ethiopia in order to complete any part of the work. It is expected that the applicant possesses all the necessary native language expertise (especially but not limited to Amharic) in order to carry out the work; and to have all necessary work/visa permissions as required to work in Ethiopia. ● 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 Public Diplomacy Programs awards averaged $26,570; this notice allows up to $8,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

In February 1937, during the three-day long massacre of civilians known in Ethiopia as Yekatit 12, the American Ambassador to Ethiopia, Cornelius Van Engert, opened the doors of the American Legation in the Mercato district of Addis Ababa and offered refuge to several hundred Ethiopian families and individuals fleeing the massacres. As a result, at least 588 people, including 152 children, were sheltered inside the compound’s walls during the massacre and saved from almost certain death. The American Embassy to Ethiopia has a list of names of the male heads of households of the families who were harbored in the American legation during Yekatit 12, and wishes to locate and contact survivors of the massacre still alive, and their children.

Category: Other.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, OFOP0002825, which is open now.

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