Cooperative Agreement SJM37021CA3019

This $3,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, will fund the USAID YOUTH EMPOWER (EMPOWER) ACTIVITY in Jamaica over a five-year period from December 2023 to December 2028. The EMPOWER Activity aims to address risk and resilience factors influencing at-risk Jamaican youths' participation in crime and violence. The project will bolster civic education and...

This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) aims to implement and evaluate an intergroup intervention (the VOICES model) to improve police-community relationships. The project will investigate whether the VOICES intervention, which facilitates dialogue between police and community members, can reduce negative...

The Department of State, through the Secretary's Office of the Global Partnership Initiative (S/GPI) Grant Programs (CFDA 19.301), awarded a $699,223.91 Cooperative Agreement to the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - Caribbean LIMITED on Aug 26, 2024. The purpose of this award is to drive programming at a dedicated venue in Kingston, Jamaica called a CCE Hub, which will build technical capacity and skills among sustainability-focused founders and startups. This award supports the foreign...

The University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, has been awarded a 5-year, $1,497,815 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The project aims to explore and pilot options for an ongoing monitoring system to track incidents of child maltreatment in youth-serving organizations. Phase 1 of the project...

This $3,371,050 Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Global AIDS (CFDA 93.067) program aims to strengthen the delivery of quality and equitable public health services for HIV prevention, testing, care, and treatment in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The award, with a performance period from September 2024 to September 2029, is granted to the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC) and the University of the West Indies Centre for...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $163,800 Project Grant under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to the Southeast Cockpit Country Local Forest Management Committee Benevolent Society (SE COCKPIT LFMCBS) in Jamaica. The grant aims to help smallholder farmers in Jamaica diversify their livelihoods and enhance community resilience in the face of intensifying weather conditions and agricultural pests. The funding will enable SE COCKPIT LFMCBS to increase its...

The Organisation Pour LE Developpement Socio-Culturel De Petit-Goave Odscp will provide logistic coordination for two journalism trainings in Haiti with $255,983.20 in funding from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant program (CFDA 19.040). The grant award period is from July 21, 2022 through May 31, 2023 to support training for a total of 24 reporters and media directors from Haiti. The Public Diplomacy Programs...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $688,363 Project Grant titled "BUILD AND BROADEN: THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSISTANCE UNIT" to the Regents of the University of Michigan. This 3-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, supports forums for researchers from institutions with different resource levels to build networks, collaborate, and receive mentoring. The project focuses on advancing research in three areas: the...

This Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) supports a partnership between the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (UC LAW SF) and L'Ecole Superieure Catholique de Droit de Jeremie (ESCDROJ) in Haiti. The grant aims to address the pre-trial detention crisis and associated corruption through this international collaboration. Key activities under this award include strengthening legal education,...

This $400,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports a collaborative research initiative involving the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez, West Texas A & M University, and Western Washington University. The key objectives are to enhance the ability of primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and emerging minority-serving institutions (EMSIs) to form and sustain long-term...