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The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded $245,000 under the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa federal grant program (CFDA 19.021) to Games For Change, Inc. to launch an inaugural G4C Summit. The Summit will bring together 150 attendees in Spring 2022 at the Yas Media Technology Campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to strengthen business-to-business ties between the U.S. and UAE in the games industry. The event aims to build a community of practice...

This $1,200,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, aims to leverage soccer as a common language to foster dialogue, cooperation, and cross-cultural understanding between 350 Palestinian and 350 Israeli youth. The "Game Changers" activity will create shared spaces on the soccer field to teach values of tolerance and coexistence, build cross-cultural knowledge and...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $251,613 Project Grant to the Hong Kong Arts Centre to sponsor the 28th IFVA Awards and Festival. This award falls under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which supports the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and influencing foreign publics. Specifically, the Hong Kong Arts Centre will use this August 1, 2022-funded award to produce the 28th International Federation of Film Critics (IFVA)...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support a series of programming titled "Harlem as an Incubator" from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The programming will present the history of Harlem as an incubator of arts, culture, and activism for people of the African diaspora through lectures, public discussions, and readings. The goal is to construct...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $515,000 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant to support the 12th annual Slash Filmfestival in Vienna, Austria. The Slash Filmfestival, organized by the nonprofit Verein ZUR Foerderung DES Fantastischen Films, will showcase international productions of fantastic film from September 23 through October 3, 2021 across three venues. The grant funding will support the festival's operations through the...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Colour Of Music, Inc., doing business as Colour Of Music Festival, to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and...

Bridge II Sports was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Under Secretary for Health on August 3, 2021. The funding was provided through the VA Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces program (CFDA 64.034). Under the award, Bridge II Sports will plan and implement the 2022 VALOR GAMES SOUTHEAST to provide adaptive sports activities and a four-day competition for 150...

The University of Utah received a $149,247 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on October 1, 2021 for the development of online role-playing games to improve multi-stakeholder collaboration in concurrent disaster response planning. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), the award will support the creation of games and simulations to advance the use of research...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the VA Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces (CFDA 64.034) program to Bridge II Sports, a non-profit organization, on September 30, 2023. This one-year grant will enable Bridge II Sports to plan, develop, manage, and implement the VALOR GAMES SOUTHEAST 2024 (VGSE24), a multi-day adaptive sports competition that promotes...