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U.S. Embassy-Bishkek Democracy Commission Small Grants Program

1) Priority Program Area One: Advancing Business Empowerment and Social Entrepreneurship This funding opportunity seeks to continue to support projects that strengthen the enabling environment for economic growth by addressing specific current challenges: high level of poverty in rural locations; lack of core competencies and skills needed in the modern ...

Report: Healing Indigenous Lives: Native Youth Town Halls

This report highlights juvenile justice and public safety concerns and recommendations from Tribal youth ages 14–24. A product of the Healing Indigenous Lives Initiative (HILI), this report is meant to amplify Native youth voices, interests, and concerns. Four peer-led Town Halls for Native youth ages 14-24 years old included a ...

Large Grants NOFO

*** PLEASE READ FULL ANNOUNCEMENT (see Related Documents) BEFORE APPLYING *** Submissions must be emailed to PretoriaGrants@state.gov, not uploaded to grants.gov. The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Mission to South Africa of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry ...

Resources: Crisis Helplines

If someone's life is in danger, call 911 or your local emergency number. We have shared crisis support services for specific needs.

English Access Micro Scholarship Program (Access)

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Kampala, Uganda, announces an open competition for grant proposals for the administration and implementation of the English Access Micro Scholarship Program (Access), which provides supplemental English-language instruction to high potential but disadvantaged students 14 - 18 years old. The Access Program ...

Just Launched! Redesigned YE4C

The Youth Engaged 4 Change website has a fresh, new look with content that continues to inspire and empower young people to improve their lives and the world around them.

Service-Learning

Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that connects academic curriculum to community problem-solving. Today, elementary, middle, high, and postsecondary schools across the nation participate in service-learning with the support of federal, state, district, and foundation funding. Studies show that, in the past, more than 4 million students from more ...

National Service

National service refers to programs like AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and other programs and initiatives. Participants in these programs address community needs in disaster services, economic opportunity, education, the environment, health, and veterans and military families. Rates Since 1994, 1 million individuals have served 1.4 billion hours in AmeriCorps and have earned $3.3 billion of Segal ...

Volunteerism

Rates Volunteering and Civic Life in America, 2014 shows that 62.6 million Americans volunteered 7.7 billion hours in 2014 — holding an estimated value of $173 billion. Seventeen percent of respondents reported mentoring youth, and 19 percent reported tutoring or teaching young people. Many of the nation’s volunteers are young people. Most ...

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