Project Grant AIDOAAF1500012

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will provide $200,000 in funding to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research examining how organizations have sought to resolve international crises and strengthen governance and trust globally. The research will trace efforts from the end of World War I to the present, drawing on history, international relations, sociology, and political science to understand the...

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...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $1.2M Cooperative Agreement to the Presencing Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. The goal of this 12-month project is to build and strengthen the understanding and skills in systems thinking, collaborative leadership, and joint action of over 160 senior leaders across 4 humanitarian country teams. The project will be performed in Boston, MA.

The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $450,038 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to study the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in education. The two-year award beginning August 2022 will support research comparing student learning outcomes between those randomly assigned to attend public-private partnership schools versus traditional public schools through a lottery system. Administrative data on...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program aims to shift power to local humanitarian networks, known as "hubs," through investments in systems and structures that facilitate transfer of program ownership, resources, design, and governance. The award to the Start Network, a UK-based non-profit organization, will fund activities in Guatemala from October...

Partners of the Americas, Inc. was awarded a $830,492 project grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the organization's FY 2022 Traditional Public Private Partnership Program. Funded under the agency's Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges program (CFDA 19.415), the award will support Partners of the Americas' exchange activities from June 2022 through October 2023. As described under the CFDA, the project aims to...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs awarded a $357,794.38 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 19.301 - The Secretary's Office of the Global Partnership Initiative (S/GPI) Grant Programs) to the Institute of the Americas on August 30, 2024. The funding supported the Coalition for Climate Entrepreneurship Fund (CCEF), which aimed to drive sustainability-focused programming in four established hubs and spaces to build the capacity of climate entrepreneurs in developing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $200,592 to Northwestern University will fund the "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project. The research aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...

The San Diego Food System Alliance (Alliance) was awarded a $949,330 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Regional Food System Partnerships program to launch a Local Food Economy Lab. The Lab will engage public and private partners within the Alliance's Food Vision 2030 network, including local farms, fisheries, food hubs, businesses, institutions, mid-tier value chain businesses, technical assistance providers, government, philanthropic,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,688 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Notre Dame. The "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...