Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call for Proposals
The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS), U. S. Embassy Bridgetown, of the U. S. Department of State announces an open competition for past participants (“alumni”) of U. S. government-funded and U. S. government-sponsored exchange programs to submit applications to the 2025 Alumni Engagement Innovation
Fund (AEIF 2025).
We seek proposals from teams comprising of at least two alumni that meet all program eligibility requirements listed below.
Priority Region:
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St.
Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines.
Program Goals and Objectives:
The AEIF is a funding opportunity which is designed to strengthen the U. S. government’s relations with exchange alumni, advance foreign policy goals and highlight the US.
government’s investment in professional and academic exchange programs.
AEIF provides alumni of U. S. sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience and to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community.
Since its inception in 2011, AEIF has funded approximately 500 alumni-led projects around the world through competitive global competition.
This year, U. S. Embassy Bridgetown through the AEIF 2025 will support the United States’ commitment to working with our partners around the world to advance Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment and Economic Prosperity and Cooperation.
The desired outcomes are to reduce the region’s risk and vulnerability to climate change, strengthen their resilience, enhance well-being and their capacity to anticipate and respond successfully to change, as well as support the development of entrepreneurship in the Eastern Caribbean.
PDS will accept for review, projects proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni that support either of the below themes:
Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment Economic Prosperity
We seek proposals from teams comprising of at least two alumni that meet all program eligibility requirements listed below.
Priority Region:
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St.
Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines.
Program Goals and Objectives:
The AEIF is a funding opportunity which is designed to strengthen the U. S. government’s relations with exchange alumni, advance foreign policy goals and highlight the US.
government’s investment in professional and academic exchange programs.
AEIF provides alumni of U. S. sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience and to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community.
Since its inception in 2011, AEIF has funded approximately 500 alumni-led projects around the world through competitive global competition.
This year, U. S. Embassy Bridgetown through the AEIF 2025 will support the United States’ commitment to working with our partners around the world to advance Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment and Economic Prosperity and Cooperation.
The desired outcomes are to reduce the region’s risk and vulnerability to climate change, strengthen their resilience, enhance well-being and their capacity to anticipate and respond successfully to change, as well as support the development of entrepreneurship in the Eastern Caribbean.
PDS will accept for review, projects proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni that support either of the below themes:
Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment Economic Prosperity
Related Programs
Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants
U.S. Department of StateRelevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Link to Opportunity in MyGrants
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Applicants eligible to receive an award under P.L.
111-11, Sec.
9502 to fund activities include:• States• Indian tribes• Irrigation districts• Water districts• Other organizations with water or power delivery authorityIn addition, applicants must be located within the LCB or the State of Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Please see the location map in Section A.1 of this NOFO.Those not eligible to receive an award include, but are not limited to, the following entities:• Federal governmental entities• Institutions of higher education• Individuals• 501(c)(6) organizations
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com/mygrants?id=mygrants_form&table=x_g_usd4_o_grant_funding_opportunity&sys_id=80c8e7408775da5020b862060cbb355e&view=Default
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
cnasstrom@usbr.gov
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2024-11-06
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2025-05-04
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