# My Climate Story, U.S. Embassy Suva

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/pd-suva-2022-01-my-climate-story-u-s-embassy-suva/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/342649

> U.S. Mission to Fiji offered grants of up to $30,000 (at least $25,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make one award worth $25,000 in total. Applications closed on August 12, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | PD-SUVA-2022-01 |
| Agency | U.S. Mission to Fiji |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | August 12, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | $30,000 |
| Award floor | $25,000 |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $25,000 |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 19.017 |

## Who can apply

- 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 -Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions

## What the grant funds

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy Suva of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to conduct a series of virtual storytelling and filmmaking classes to multiple countries within the Pacific Island Region. These classes will enable participants to chronical the effects of climate change in their communities and enhance their ability to advocate for the security, economic health, and long-term survival of their countries while raising greater regional and global awareness of the already severe impacts of climate change in the Pacific. Please carefully follow all instructions below. Priority Region: Pacific Island Countries, to include Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Nauru. Program Objectives: Pacific Island Countries (PIC) are the most immediate victims of climate change. Larger, industrialized countries can pledge to reduce emissions and offer climate change financing, but smaller island-nations cannot meaningfully do the same. The PIC’s best tools against global warming are the thousands of stories of how this threat uproots communities and disrupts livelihoods. “My Climate Story” will offer virtual filmmaking and storytelling master classes to enable Pacific Islander youth to use their smart phone and tell how climate change affects them, adding a human element necessary to promote a sense of urgency on climate issues. Posts’ American Spaces in multiple Pacific Island countries can join other venues in hosting the virtual trainings and provide internet and computer access for editing of short films. Towards the end of the project, participants will enter their films into an Embassy-sponsored showcase to both compete for prizes and broaden awareness of rising sea levels on a larger, international platform. PIC leaders already recognize the region’s advocacy power in the fight against climate change. They are vocal participants at international climate summits, where they routinely cite climate change as an existential threat and the region’s greatest security vulnerability. “My Climate Story” expands this role to ordinary citizens, whose perspective is lost in higher level discussions, but is nonetheless essential to move global warming contributors to act. Prospective applicants must submit a draft schedule of virtual sessions involving storytelling and filmmaking curriculum, to be conducted over an eight-week period.

## Questions people ask

### Is PD-SUVA-2022-01 still open?

No. It closed on August 12, 2022.

### Who can apply for My Climate Story, U.S. Embassy Suva?

U.S. Mission to Fiji accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for My Climate Story, U.S. Embassy Suva?

Closed August 12, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $30,000 each. About $25,000 in total for one award.

### Who has won Environmental and Scientific Partnerships and Programs grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, Bndes. The program made 216 awards worth $1.8 billion in that time.