Kentucky Fried Wishes: Improving Health & Wellbeing

Overview:

Kentucky Fried Wishes is a quarterly grant opportunity through the KFC Foundation. Non-profit organizations can apply for a $10,000 grant to fund an actionable project on their wish list.

Each quarter, up to 25 organizations will be selected to receive a $10,000 grant. Projects must meet the following criteria:
    • Can be completed with a $10,000 budget*
    • Can be completed within a 6-12 month period

*If additional funding is needed, include plans for securing additional funds in your proposal. 

For the current grant cycle, eligible projects must focus on improving health and wellbeing. See kfcfoundation.org/wishes for the full list of quarterly grant cycles and project categories.

Examples of possible projects include:

• Mobile health clinic creation
• Playground improvements
• Domestic violence shelter upgrades
• Accommodations for individuals with disabilities

We’re looking for tangible, actionable projects that are feasible to accomplish with the $10,000 grant and will make an immediate impact in your community.

If you have a larger project (i.e., 100-mile trail restoration), break it down into something that $10,000 could cover in full (i.e., 10-mile trail restoration out of our 100-mile project). If additional funding is needed, detailed plans for securing additional resources must be provided in the Project Budget.

Projects should be timely, with preference given to those that can be completed within a 6-12 month period.

All grant recipients will be expected to agree to and be responsible for:

• Signing a contract agreeing to grant requirements and completing a W-9 tax form
• Following through with the project as it was proposed, including spending funds as requested in the application
• Submitting photos/videos, a report of project expenses, and any unspent funds to the KFC Foundation within twelve months of the grant notification date (we prefer that the project use all the funds, but if that does not seem likely, please contact KFC Foundation staff to discuss the situation)
• Completing a grant report at both six months and twelve months after the project has been awarded
• Recognizing the KFC Foundation in the project and allowing it to be publicized and shared by the KFC Foundation

Submittable Information
You will need to create a free Submittable account or sign in with Google or Facebook credentials to submit to these forms.

We will follow-up with you about your submission by email. Please be sure to safelist notification emails from Submittable and check the email you used to sign up for your Submittable Account regularly.

Solicitation limitations:

Non-profits may submit one grant application per quarterly cycle.

Foundation for Community & Health Advancement: Mental Health Matters Grant

Overview:

Grant opportunities are available for Arizona-based organizations that are seeking funding related to the Foundation’s focus areas. The Foundation offers grant opportunities for programs and applied research projects, and supports a select number of charitable events each year. Expanding statewide resources, reducing stigma about mental health, and connecting people to care that promotes positive mental health and saves lives. 

Now more than ever, mental health matters. Even before COVID-19 caused a sharp spike in stress, anxiety, and depression, more than 13.5% of adults in Arizona struggled with frequent mental distress. That percentage places our state 28th in the nation for frequent mental distress. Arizona is 38th for lives lost to suicide and 42nd in the U.S. for access to mental healthcare. 
 
As the need for mental health support continues to rise, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Foundation for Community & Health Advancement is taking action. We invest in expanding statewide resources, reducing stigma about mental health, and connecting people to care that promotes positive mental health and saves lives. Protecting the well-being of Arizonans depends on talking more about mental health and supporting one another. We encourage everyone to join in the conversation. 

Mental health: The Foundation will open the Mental Health Matters Grant cycle for mental health projects on May 1, 2024. We are interested in receiving applications for programs and/or applied research that target issues such as: 

• Access – provider shortage, telehealth, etc. 
• Suicide prevention 
• Youth mental health 
• Intersection of mental health and substance use disorder 
• COVID-19 effect 

Funding priority is given to proposals that expand publicly-available resources, are scalable (or have the potential to increase systems-level capacity), and have a measurable impact.

The Foundation accepts funding requests during specific grant cycles from non-profit organizations and academic institutions. 
 
We work with the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) to manage grant interest, applications, and proposals. All organizations seeking Foundation funding must have an active grantee account with ACF. 

Grant Cycle: May 1 – 29, 2024 
Funding Date: August 30, 2024
Grant Term: September 1-2024- August 31, 2025

Arizona: Cox Charities Grant Cycle

Overview:

Cox Communications, in partnership with its fiscal partner Arizona Community Foundation, is pleased to invite your nonprofit organization to apply for grants through Cox Charities. This is a special opportunity to receive funding for programs that support one or more of Cox Charities’ giving pillars: Education (with a priority on K-12 and STEAM), Diversity (with a priority on programs serving 80% of more of a target population or serve an inclusion, diversity and equity initiative), Environment/Sustainability programs (with a priority on water conservation, waste or carbon reduction), and Digital Equity (with a priority on digital literacy programs, computer distribution, and or programs serving the under/unserved).  

Cox Charities awards grants on an annual basis to nonprofit organizations that serve the areas prioritized by Cox Communications. Funds are used to directly support Education (with a priority on K-12 and STEAM), Diversity (with a priority on programs serving 80% of more of a target population or serve an inclusion, diversity and equity initiative), Environment/Sustainability programs (with a priority on water conservation, waste or carbon reduction), and Digital Equity (with a priority on digital literacy programs, computer distribution, and or programs serving the under/unserved) programs in Maricopa, Pinal, Yavapai, Pima and Cochise counties.  

Focus Areas  

• Education (with a priority on K-12 and STEAM)  
• Diversity (with a priority on programs serving 80% or more of a target population or serve an inclusion, diversity, and equity initiative)  
• Environment/Sustainability (with a priority on water conservation, waste, or carbon reduction) 
• Digital Equity (with a priority on digital literacy programs, computer distribution, and or programs serving the under/unserved)

Cox Charities will fund only program- elated expenses, including activities, materials and supplies that are directly related to the provision of services, etc., restricted to local needs in Arizona. Funding will NOT be given for general operations or staff salaries/wages.  

Multiple grants may NOT be awarded.

Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS)

Overview:

The Teaching with Primary Sources program has been the Library of Congress’s premier educational outreach program. The goals of the program have included providing instructional materials, tools, education and professional development that enhance teachers’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress into instruction that builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge and ability to conduct original research.  

The purpose of this notice is to identify awardee organizations that will design and implement educational projects in which the Library’s digitized primary sources and other online materials are central to teaching and learning. The Library seeks to solicit project proposals that expand the body of innovative strategies, tools, and materials for meaningful teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials. 

Specifically, the Library of Congress seeks to make awards to support the creative and wide-ranging educational use of Library online resources that serves sub populations of Americans based on their unique professions, ethnicities, geographic locations, abilities, interests, affiliations, and other attributes. 

In support of the Library’s mission to use its collections to connect with those representing diverse communities, beliefs, and endeavors to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity, the Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office (PLOI), within the Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement, has broadened the focus of TPS awards to include the design of educational projects using Library of Congress materials for use in and outside of formal classroom settings. 

Proposed projects may focus on diverse content areas such as Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), literacy (including media literacy), social studies, civics, art, teacher education, public health, journalism, justice and equality, and other areas that coincide with applicants’ passions, expertise, and professional experience. However, the project must address demonstrated educational needs of specific recipient populations and provide solutions that standard practice, documented experience, or research suggest would be effective. 

Projects must use the Library’s collections for one or more of the following approaches: 

• Deliver educational programming to various categories of learners; 
• Create and distribute educational materials or tools for teaching specific content; 
• Convene meetings of like organizations to devise strategies for furthering common learning and teaching goals with Library of Congress materials; and/or 
• Conduct research with significant practitioner involvement that investigate 

Expected Results 

1. Design, develop and implement an educational project that specifies population(s), numbers of learners targeted, methodology for meeting learning goals, products, or materials to be developed using Library of Congress digitized primary resources and other online resources. 
2. Make needed modifications to materials funded by the award based on critical feedback from users and Library staff. 
3. Obtain all necessary permissions, releases and/or other clearances that must be acquired for use of any content to be included by awardee in awardee’s educational materials, programs, and tools. Such permissions, releases and/or other clearances may pertain to, but are not limited to, copyright, right of publicity, right of privacy, defamation, or any other right whatsoever. This does not include Library of Congress digital materials that are rights-free and public domain use.  
4. Enter into an agreement with the Library and openly license to the public any new copyrightable materials created in whole, or in part, with these award funds, as described in Section B.2. 
5. Ensure that the curriculum, instructional materials, tools and accompanying products are made available online through channels approved by Library of Congress staff. 
6. Maintain public access to the curriculum, instructional materials and tools developed under the award for a minimum of five years after the end of the period of performance for the cooperative agreement. 
7. Disseminate the curriculum, instructional materials and tools developed under the award through existing networks of subsidiary and partner organizations. 
8. Attend and participate in at least two TPS Consortium meetings per year, held in Washington, DC, elsewhere in the U.S, or via a virtual platform. 
9. Participate in the TPS Educational Consortium by sharing ideas, methods, and information to enhance the development and dissemination of the national program and provide access to networks and communities that can help broaden the reach and applicability of the TPS program. 
10. Join and become active in at least one Consortium Interest Group created to build other Consortium members’ capacity to enhance their materials, programming, or tools to reach underserved groups of educators or learners. 
11. Participate in Consortium-wide TPS program design, testing, research, and evaluation activities, as requested, to support the quality of TPS resources and the efficacy of TPS program processes. 
12. Participate in promotional efforts and outreach activities that inform potential program participants of the availability of the educational opportunities, curriculum, instructional materials and tools created under this award. 
13. Participate in a TPS orientation and fundamentals program. (The Library intends to offer virtual and onsite options). Awardees should be available to participate in up to 10 hours of the orientation.

Intellectual Property and Data Availability 
The Awardee provides an open license to the public for any new copyrightable materials created in whole, or in part, with these award funds and openly licenses to the public any copyrightable modifications made to pre-existing content using these award funds. 

All materials must be labeled as open educational resources (OER).  

Period of Performance: 12 months: 10/1/2024 – 9/30/2025 

Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Solicitation limitations:

The Library will accept only one proposal from the same organizational department. There is no limitation on being included as a potential sub-awardee in multiple applications submitted by other prime applicants. The use of teaming arrangements is not allowed. Applications from individuals will not be accepted.  

Submission Information 
All proposals must be submitted electronically via email to tps-grant@loc.gov. Proposals submitted through Grants.gov will not be accepted. 

Applicants must not have received prior funding from the Teaching with Primary Sources program directly from the Library of Congress.

2025 Young Scholars Program (YSP)

Overview:

The Foundation for Child Development is currently accepting proposals for its 2025 Young Scholars Program (YSP). YSP supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds research projects that aim to clarify how, why, and for whom policies, programs, and practices support the early care and education (ECE) workforce and shape children’s early learning experiences and well-being in early childhood, defined as birth through age eight. 

As 2025 represents the culmination of the Foundation’s 10-year initiative focused on strengthening the capacity and status of the ECE workforce, the 2025 YSP application cycle is the final opportunity to select Young Scholars within these programmatic objectives.

The Foundation for Child Development believes that the quality of early care and education (ECE) programs depends on a diverse ECE workforce that is adequately compensated and supported. These dedicated individuals, including lead teachers, teacher assistants, home-based providers, coaches, master teachers, and administrators, play an integral role in fostering children's learning. Their interactions and the enriching, nurturing learning environments they create are fundamental to achieving positive outcomes for every child.

Within this frame, the Foundation launched a 10-year initiative in 2015 dedicated to supporting the workforce and identifying and promoting research, policy, and practice to:

• Advance the status and well-being of the ECE workforce;
• Support the quality of practice of the ECE workforce; and
• Strengthen ECE leadership to create more supportive environments for the workforce.

Proposals must be relevant to the Foundation’s interest in implementation research to support the capacity and status of the ECE workforce. Studies may encompass descriptive, experimental, or measurement-focused approaches. The Foundation seeks research proposals with implications for policy or practice. Additionally, research that builds from the interests and priorities of the communities, educators, or families who are engaged in the research is highly valued.

Deadline to submit a Letter of Intent: Monday, June 3, 2024.

Research Awards: Up to $225,000 for primary data collection and analysis and up to $180,000 for secondary data analysis.

Solicitation limitations:

To increase the diversity of research perspectives, the Foundation encourages applications from:

• Scholars who are from underrepresented groups that have historically experienced poverty, racism, xenophobia, prejudice, and discrimination. Such groups include, but are not limited to, researchers of color, first-generation college graduates, and researchers from low-income communities and/or immigrant families
• Scholars who represent a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches

Principal Investigators must have received their terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., J.D., M.D.) within 10 years of submitting their applications to the program. In medicine, the date of the completion of the first residency is used for this calculation.

Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies

Overview:

The Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program, Interlinkages and Innovation for Future
Societies, invites research proposals that address social issues with an awareness of the
“connections” among people, between people and nature, and between people and things and
technologies. This is based on the belief that in order to realize an affluent and harmonious
world, we need to fundamentally reexamine existing social systems and design the future from
the perspective of interlinkages.

The Toyota Foundation targets proposals that fulfill the following points for grants.  

1. Great significance for society  

2. Anticipating internal and external issues  

3. Future-oriented 

4. Sustainable and developable  

5. Expected to have a ripple effect 

In evaluating proposals, the Research Grant Program will place emphasis on the
interdisciplinary nature of the research, the diversity of the participants, international
perspectives, and the impacts on society. It invites ambitious projects that transcend
conventional research activities, which often contribute only to the academic world, to address
important social issues. It will support researchers who boldly challenge the world and
encourage the transformation of social systems using a free-thinking approach that is not
constrained by existing values.

Projects will have a clear idea of the social issues that they address and will include concrete plans
and ideas toward the transformation of social systems. Projects will also aim to actively share
research findings with the wider society.

We value trial and error and unintended developments in research activities. However, we
require researchers to go beyond simply sticking to research alone to take into consideration
the specific ways for sharing and implementing their research findings with the wider society.
We place particular emphasis on sharing with society through policy recommendations, construction of models, and the development of platforms and/or networks.

Grant Period: November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026 (2 years)

Application Language: English or Japanese

Apply through the website of the Research Grant Program at https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/grant/research/
Traffic on the Toyota Foundation website may increase immediately prior to the application deadline, making it impossible in some cases to submit a project proposal, so we recommend that you apply as early as possible.

Solicitation limitations:

Joint research projects conducted by two persons or more are eligible.

Project representatives must have a contact address in Japan and must be 45 years old or under on the date when the grant begins.

 Improving Youth Mental Health

Overview:

The Cigna Group seeks to collaborate with and support nonprofits that leverage evidence-informed programs and services to serve local youth experiencing the most need. For the first year of our three-year commitment, we will focus on investing in approaches that drive outcomes to address mental health concerns early; and strategically offer programming, intervention and access to care in schools and related settings in underserved communities.  

Funding Goals:   

• Increase reach of programming that foster social-emotional skills and well-being. 
• Increase pathways to mental health intervention and access to care. 
• Increase the number of parents, caregivers, and youth service professionals who feel equipped to provide support. 

Project Objectives:  

The Cigna Group Foundation is committing $9 million over three years to improve the mental health of youth (ages 5–18) as it relates to post-pandemic stress and distress. This commitment includes support for those who care for youth in everyday settings and interactions, including their parents, caregivers, and youth service professionals, such as educators and therapists. 

Grant Program Eligibility & Requirements:  

• The organization is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization and within one of the specific subsections of the Internal Revenue Code (see FAQ ).  
• The budget narrative should reflect all eligible expenses required for the specific grant project. Salaries for staff members are allowable for the related program. Non-eligible expenses include fringe benefits or payroll taxes, general operating expenses, and administrative and indirect costs.  
• Progress and impact measurement, including activity tracking practices and evaluation methodology, as well as alignment to the ability to address health disparities, should be clearly articulated in the application.  
• The measurement approach should include connecting how program outputs and short-term outcomes drive to long-term, sustainable improved mental health among youth. For example, for the grant program goal to increase the number of parents, caregivers and youth service professionals who feel equipped to support, we’ll seek to understand an aligned measure, such as number of staff members in school or related settings (e.g., after-school programs) trained in mental health literacy or other related trainings that teach how to identify signs and symptoms of youth in distress.  
• Grantees awarded funding will be expected to complete a progress report (at six months) and final report (at twelve months, end of term). 

FY24 Autism Research Program Career Development Award

Overview:

The ARP’s vision is to improve the lives of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) now and in the future, and its mission is to promote innovative research that advances the understanding of ASD and leads to improved outcomes. The proposed research must be relevant to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the American public.

FY24 ARP Career Development Award Areas of Interest:

• Assessment of novel therapeutics using valid preclinical models

• (New for FY24) Community-supported and participatory research interventions

• Create tools and strategies to increase the speed with which evidence-based practices are deployed in community-based settings 

• Cultural, socioeconomic, and gender factors in diagnosis, treatment efficacy, delivery, and access to services 

• Development of health care provider-focused training or tools to improve health care delivery for individuals with ASD across the life span and the continuum of care (i.e., primary care, urgent/emergent care, and disaster relief) 

• Environmental risk factors 

• (New for FY24) Factors impacting the quality of life for current and former military families.

• Factors promoting success in key transitions to independence for individuals living with ASD  3 DOD FY24 Autism Career Development Award

• (New for FY24) Gender identity and sexual health, including puberty and sexual education for autistic individuals

• Improve diagnosis and access to services across the lifespan

• Interventions to support ASD adults, including transition to adulthood, mid-life, and late-life needs

• Long-term treatment outcomes from previous clinical trials for ASD core symptoms or to alleviate co-occurring conditions 

• Mechanisms of heterogeneous clinical expression of ASD 

• Mechanisms underlying sex differences (i.e., prevalence, biological mechanisms, phenotypic expression, core and comorbid syndrome expression and outcomes, developmental trajectories, diagnosis, and treatment response) 

• Mechanisms underlying conditions co-occurring with ASD (e.g., pain, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal issues, inflammation, aggression, depression, anxiety, attention deficit, and seizures) 

• Mental health issues (such as grief, masking, suicide risk, trauma, etc.) or disorders in autistic individuals

• Tests of implementation strategies to increase use of evidence-based practices 

• (New for FY24) Uncovering new advances using a strength-based model

• Understanding heterogeneity in treatment response, including identification of psychosocial or biological factors that (1) impact treatment outcomes or (2) can be used to prospectively identify treatments that are most likely to benefit particular subgroups of individuals

• Understanding key factors to support ASD adults, including transition to adulthood

• Understanding physical health and related issues in aging autistic adults, including cardiovascular issues, joint pain, asthma, obesity, etc. The FY24 ARP Career Development Award seeks applications from all areas of research.  However, if the proposed research project does not address at least one of the FY24 ARP Career Development Award Areas of Interest, justification should be provided that the proposed research addresses a critical problem, question, or need in ASD.

Project Objectives:

FY24 Career Development Award applications that name a Principal Investigator (PI) with limited background in ASD research, the ARP strongly encourages the inclusion of collaboration with investigators who are experienced in ASD research and/or possess other relevant expertise in order to strengthen the application

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW DATES AND TIMES
Submission is a two-step process requiring both a pre-application and a full application. Depending on the type of submission (i.e., extramural vs. intramural), certain aspects of the submission process will differ.

• Pre-Application (Preproposal) Submission Deadline: May 16, 2024
• Invitation to Submit an Application:  June 26, 2024
• Application Submission Deadline:  August 15, 2024 

Preproposal Narrative: two-page limit 

Award Information

The FY24 appropriation is $15M.
The CDMRP expects to allot approximately $2.64M to fund approximately three Career Development Award applications.

Solicitation limitations:

The Principal Investigator named by the organization as the PI on the application may select one of the following eligibility categories. These eligibility criteria pertain as of the application submission deadline:

1. An independent investigator at or below the level of Assistant Professor or equivalent; or 
2. An established independent investigator in an area other than ASD at or above the level of Assistant Professor seeking to transition to a career in ASD thereby bringing their expertise to the field.

Sprouting School Gardens Grant

Overview:

Across the country, Sprouts has been supporting thousands of school gardens and nonprofit organizations through our grant programming. To help more schools create or expand their school garden-based programs, we are pleased to announce our new Sprouting School Gardens Grants.

The grants range in size from $5,000 to $10,000 and support school garden program operations, program supplies, and educator stipends to help school gardens thrive. Organizations must be schools or 501(c)(3) nonprofits with a presence in cities and communities where Sprouts Farmers Market operates stores in order to apply. 

Organizations must first complete a full Neighborhood Grant* cycle may be invited to apply for a Healthy Communities Grant. The Healthy Communities Grant is designed to help nonprofit partners scale programs and serve a greater number of individuals. Grants range in size from $50,000 to $100,000, spread over two years. By offering multi-year funding, organizations can build capacity and expand their reach within the communities they serve. 

Sprouting School Gardens Grants are designed to create, sustain or expand garden-based education programs on school campuses that emphasize health education and nutritious eating. Funding can be used to support new school gardens or existing school gardens (indoor and outdoor gardens are both eligible), program supplies and educator stipends. Programs that include hands-on cooking or tasting components are highly encouraged to apply.

FUNDS SUPPORT THINGS LIKE...   

• Learning Tools: Garden curriculum books, cooking carts and supplies for your cooking demonstrations, root viewers, pollinator hotels etc.  

• Physical Garden Features: This includes garden beds, seedlings/plants, shade structures, sheds, hydroponic towers and other physical items in the garden    

• Educator Stipends: Full or part-time garden educator stipend for time spent in the garden or on continuing education   

• Tools & Supplies: Think classroom sets of gloves, shovels, buckets, wheelbarrows, hoses, or any item that is used to maintain your garden   

• Other: Supplemental food for cooking demonstrations 

This grant program is replacing our previous Neighborhood Grant, which since 2016 has awarded more than $4 million to 400 nonprofit organizations.

Grantees will be announced on July 31, 2024 and funds will be awarded in early August. Funds are restricted to the 2024-2025 school year and must be used within that timeframe. All grantees will be required to submit a final grant report, using a template that's provided, to share how the funds were used and to share results. 

U.S. Mission to India Empowering LGBTQI+ Community Leadership across India

Overview:

The Embassy of the United States of America, New Delhi, announces an open competition to implement a program to promote equal access for LGBTQI+ communities by strengthening leadership capacity. This program is built upon the foundation of promoting inclusivity, equality, and accessibility of government services for the trans and intersex communities, recognizing their unique challenges in accessing education, healthcare, employment, and legal recourse against discrimination. Through a cascading 'train the trainer' model, this initiative aims to empower leaders within these communities to disseminate critical information and skills, creating a ripple effect of increased community engagement and awareness that will benefit India and the United States through improved health, education, economic strength, justice, and equality.

Project Goal:

To promote the democratic value of equal access for all peoples, including minorities and marginalized groups, this project aims to build the capacity of trans and intersex community leaders in India, enabling them to effectively access, utilize, and advocate for government services and rights. Utilizing a peer education model, the project will create a sustainable model that empowers the trans and intersex communities from within, fostering resilience, awareness, and inclusivity.

Project Objectives:

Objective 1: Train at least 200 LGBTQI+ community leaders, at least 40 in each consular district (Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi), with preference given to trans and intersex community leaders, with leadership, professional development, and organizational management skills and specific information on promoting access to government services, including healthcare, education, legal identity documents, and recourse against discrimination practices.

Objective 2: Develop comprehensive training materials, for free distribution in the public domain, tailored to the needs of LGBTQI+ communities, with emphasis on trans and intersex communities, including guides on navigating government services and legal rights. To ensure wide accessibility, all materials will be translated into the major languages spoken in the consular districts (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and Marathi.),

Objective 3: Establish a peer-to-peer training network where trained leaders can educate and empower their community members, reaching at least 2,000 additional individuals within the first year.

Objective 4: Monitor and evaluate the program's impact, with specific metrics for knowledge increase, access to services, and community empowerment, adjusting strategies as needed to ensure effectiveness and reach.

Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Number of awards anticipated: one award.

Anticipated program start date: August 20, 2024

Program Performance Period: Proposed programs should be completed in 12 months or less. The Department of State will entertain applications for continuation grants funded under these awards beyond the initial budget period on a non-competitive basis subject to availability of funds, satisfactory progress of the program, and a determination that continued funding would be in the best interest of the U.S. Department of State.

Solicitation limitations:

Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals from that institution will be considered ineligible for funding.