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PORTLOUIS-AWE-FY25-01: Academy of Women Entrepreneurs Mauritius 2025

Closed Closed February 3, 2025 Opportunity PORTLOUIS-AWE-FY25-01 ☆ 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 Mauritius notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$25,000
• Award floor$17,000
• 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)

Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experienceNon-profit or governmental educational institutions.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Public Diplomacy Programs awards averaged $26,570; this notice allows up to $25,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy in Port Louis, Mauritius announces an open competition for non-profit organizations to submit applications to lead a program for women entrepreneurs through the U.S. State Department’s Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Mauritius. Please follow all instructions below. Program Objectives: The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) established the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) an exchange program in 2019 to empower women with the professional skills, networks, and access they need to launch or scale successful businesses. Implemented in nearly 100 countries since 2019, AWE has empowered an estimated 25,000 women entrepreneurs around the world with the professional business skills they need to reach their full economic potential. The AWE program was implemented in 2021 in Mauritius. As a U.S. government exchange program, AWE connects women with U.S.-style learning and expertise to advance business acumen and build stronger ties among women entrepreneurs in different markets. The AWE program partners with Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management (ASU) and the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, the creators of DreamBuilder, a no-cost online learning platform that teaches AWE participants the fundamentals of business from a U.S. perspective. In 2023, the Department and ASU established a new five-year, public-private partnership to also offer AWE participants advanced courses through the Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative. In addition, by networking with local business leaders and U.S. Exchange Alumni, the AWE program includes localized content specific to entrepreneurs’ needs. ECA’s Office of Academic Programs manages the AWE program and supports U.S. Missions worldwide to leverage the power of local U.S.-government Exchange Alumni networks to serve as facilitators, guest speakers, and mentors for the AWE program. Learn more at https://eca.state.gov/awe. The project will include the following objectives: • Develop a program aimed at increasing entrepreneurial capacity of AWE beneficiaries that will integrate the DreamBuilder (dreambuilder.org) online course or the Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative as one of its key components. The program will encompass facilitated viewing sessions that will provide the participants an opportunity to discuss the topics and to network.

Category: Other.

Applying now

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

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