Deadline: 31 March 2014
Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of Citizen Exchanges is inviting proposals from public and private non-profit organizations to conduct professional fellowship program for Community Solutions Program in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Western Hemisphere.
One organization will be offered approximate $1,500,000 to conduct the fellowship program for a period of two years.
The fellowship program will be four-to six-months long complemented by leadership training and development. The participants will experience U.S. best practices and learn effective models of public and community engagement, while developing concrete strategies to better address complex issues in their home communities. Young professionals currently engaged in initiatives that aim to improve and enhance the economic, environmental, political, and social well-being of their communities are the targeted fellows.
Themes –
- Environmental Issues
- Tolerance and Conflict Resolution
- Transparency and Accountability
- Women and Gender Issues
Eligibility Criteria –
- Eligible Countries are – Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe); East Asia and the Pacific (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam); Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Turkey); Middle East and North Africa (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and West Bank/Palestinian Territories); South and Central Asia (Bangladesh, Burma, Maldives, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan); and Western Hemisphere (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago)
- Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) are eligible to apply.
- Applications must be limited to the themes to be considered eligible for funding.
- Organizations with less than four years experience in conducting international exchanges are ineligible to apply.
- Eligible applicants may not submit more than one proposal in this competition. If more than one proposal is received from the same applicant, all submissions will be declared technically ineligible and will receive no further consideration in the review process.
For more information, please visit Application Guidelines page.
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