Project Grant D22AP00089

The Department of the Interior Insular Affairs awarded a $499,100 Project Grant to The Junior State of America Foundation to support the Insular Affairs Youth Civic Engagement Program for High School Students. The grant will fund the Foundation's Programs Team to execute civic education activities for high school students in California from June 2021 through March 2023. The grant is being awarded under the Department's Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program...

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs awarded a $1,100,000 Project Grant to the Close Up Foundation to support the 2025 Close Up Insular Affairs Program - Civic Education. This grant, awarded on December 11, 2024, is funded under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875) and will run through September 30, 2029. The grant supports the Close Up Foundation's civic education and leadership development initiatives targeting...

The Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs awarded $209,940 under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories federal grant program to continue supporting Coral Fellows placements in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands from July 25, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The program addresses current capacity gaps in coral reef management in each jurisdiction by placing highly qualified individuals with...

Under a $249,926 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Cultural Vistas, Inc. will implement a regional workshop on civic education for good governance engaging Youth for Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) members across Southeast Asia. The agreement was awarded on August 20, 2021 under the Department's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Insular Affairs awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Republic of Palau Ministry of Finance to build the capacity of the Palau National Youth Council (PNYC) to create a national repository of youth-related data and analytical reports. The funding will support the collection, synthesis, and analysis of existing workforce, employment, and census data for Palauan young people ages 18-35, aligned with an assessment of Palau's workforce needs. This project,...

The American Samoa Government Department of Commerce received a $122,270 project grant award from the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs to implement a six-week summer camp program for youth aged 7-12. Funded under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program, the camp will engage participants in daily physical activity and nutrition education from June 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027 in American Samoa. As a subrecipient, the Department of...

The Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the "Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories" (CFDA 15.875) program to the nonprofit organization Mañelu (doing business as BBBS Guam). This grant, awarded on July 24, 2023, will fund the "Fanhale Project" to develop social-emotional skills, leadership skills, community stewardship, and cultural identity in at-risk youth ages 9-15 who are indigenous Chamoru...

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Guam was awarded a $900,000 project grant from the Department of the Interior's Insular Affairs office under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories federal grant program (CFDA 15.875). The grant will allow the Office to contract for grants management capacity building and enhanced grant performance training through September 2025. Mandatory training will cover topics such as the introduction to grants and cooperative...

The We Are Oceania Service Cofa or Fas Nations Citizens in Hawaii was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Insular Affairs on May 9, 2022 to support the WAO YOUTH EMPOWER CENTER: A LEARNING AND WELLNESS CENTER through September 30, 2025. Under the federal Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875), the grant will fund the establishment of a learning and wellness center by We Are Oceania to serve youth from the Freely...

The Center for Civic Education was awarded a $6,619,611 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411). The grant, titled "Integrated Civic SEL," will fund the development, implementation, and scaling of innovative civic education programs focused on media literacy and public policy engagement, particularly for disadvantaged students. The project, running from...