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SFOP0009848: Climate Solutions and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Closed Closed July 14, 2023 Opportunity SFOP0009848 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$260,000
• Award floor$50,000
• Total funding$780,000
• Expected awards6
• 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 organizations are eligible to apply:• U.S. non-profit/non-governmental organizations;• (NGOs) having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS;• Overseas-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations;• U.S. and overseas private/state institutions of higher education; and• for-profit and commercial firms.• Applicants may partner with hub owners of public or private origin, such as the American Spaces program, so long as the hubs are not supported by a government deemed ineligible for the CSSEF.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past The Secretary's Office of the Global Partnership Initiative (S/GPI) Grant Programs awards averaged $727,221; this notice allows up to $260,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (57% over five years) went to businesses.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Office of Global Partnerships (GP) of the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announces an open competition for organizations to submit a statement of interest (SOI) to carry out a program (or programs) to expand and amplify the Department’s response to the climate crisis. GP has launched the Climate Solutions and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Fund (CSSEF) to drive sustainability-focused programming in makerspaces, community centers, and technology labs in developing economies that strive to capacitate local entrepreneurs and increase their ability to scale climate solutions to market. GP hopes to help create local communities of entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-support organizations around these hubs that are more market-savvy, more resourced, more cooperative amongst each other, and better able to generate climate solutions. SOIs that work to enable an economic response to the climate crisis, such as coaching and mentorship curriculum, capital-raising guidance, recruitment and education of environmentally-focused entrepreneurs, event management, and other economic engagement are welcome. These examples are only made for illustrative purpose and the Department welcomes hearing of the creativity from the private sector.

Category: Environment.

Applying now

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