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PD-FY25-CANADA-AWE: 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Canada (AWE)

Closed Closed January 15, 2025 Opportunity PD-FY25-CANADA-AWE ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$35,000
• Award floor$25,000
• Total funding$35,000
• 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)

The following are eligible to apply:• U.S. and Canadian registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience• Alumni of U.S. government funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs in Canada• Non-profit media organizations• Professional trade organizations• Non-profit or governmental educational institutions• Private educational institutions For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.

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 Ottawa announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement the 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Montreal, Canada. AWE is a U.S. Department of State-led initiative established in 2019 to provide women with the professional skills, knowledge, networks, and access to launch or scale successful businesses. Cohorts of approximately 30 women meet online and in-person to learn core business skills such as strategic planning, marketing, and finance, then discuss the material with local facilitators, business leaders, and U.S. exchange alumni mentors. Through its partnerships with Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School for Global Management, AWE utilizes no-cost, online learning platforms. Used by AWE since 2019 in partnership with ASU & Freeport-McMoRan, DreamBuilder -- available in English and Spanish -- teaches participants the fundamentals of starting or growing a small business from a U.S. perspective, offering modules on marketing, pricing, and bookkeeping, and includes a built-in business plan generator. The Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative provides more advanced curriculum and can be used alongside or instead of DreamBuilder. U.S. Embassy Ottawa invites proposals to design and implement the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Montreal, Quebec, through a, through a training program in fall of 2025 to train 30 women business owners from under-represented backgrounds in Montreal and the broader province of Quebec. The program, in English or French will follow a hybrid model, combining the U.S. online platforms DreamBuilder and/or Thunderbird’s 100 Million Learners courses, with localized in-person mentorship and facilitation. Successful projects will harness the power of U.S. exchange alumni and/or alumni networks to help participating women and their business grow. Eligible Applicants The following are eligible to apply: · U.S. and Canadian registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience · Alumni of U.S. government funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs in Canada · Non-profit media organizations · Professional trade organizations · Non-profit or governmental educational institutions · Private educational institutions For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.

Category: Other.

Applying now

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