Project Grant SLE20024GR0003

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a 5-year, $6,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. The Education2Action (E2A) program seeks to create a network of entrepreneurial peacemakers equipped with skills, opportunities, and motivation to address high-impact challenges in and between Palestinian and Israeli communities. The program will directly...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs under the Middle East Partnership Initiative (CFDA 19.500) provides $299,981 to the Association Semeurs D'Avenir, a non-profit organization in Beirut, Lebanon, to empower vulnerable populations with skills for employment and entrepreneurship. The grant aims to contribute to regional economic development and stability in Lebanon. The award period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026....

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $270,386 Project Grant to Education For Employment through the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant program (CFDA 19.040). The grant will support a project to address obstacles faced by female entrepreneurs in Jordan through knowledge exchange and mentorship between American and Jordanian entrepreneurs. Specifically, the two-year project from October 2021 to September 2023 will foster entrepreneurship and economic development...

This $4.8 million Economic Development Administration project grant funds the New Orleans Startup Fund Inc. to launch the Diversifying and Expanding the Entrepreneurship Pipeline in Technology in New Orleans initiative through September 2025. The Startup Fund will enhance its portfolio management capacity and deliver customized technical assistance to over 100 women- and minority-owned technology entrepreneurs to help them progress from pre-seed funding to venture capital rounds and exits. It...

This $925,348 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs under the AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900) aims to enhance entrepreneurship education in Armenia, in partnership with the Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE). The project will develop faculty skills and create innovative curricula in STEM, social, and sustainable entrepreneurship. Key activities include transforming ASUE's existing Change Lab into a...

This $202,518 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, under the Middle East Partnership Initiative (CFDA 19.500) program, aims to increase awareness and knowledge of digital entrepreneurship among 90 university students and women researchers from marginalized regions in northern and southern Tunisia. The goal is to create a pipeline of youth-led innovative solutions. This is an amendment to update the statement of work and add new award...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $301,953.93 project grant (CFDA 19.040 - Public Diplomacy Programs) to Uspeak Association, a woman-owned non-profit organization in Baalbeck, Lebanon. The grant is intended to empower 240 youth and 40 women in Baalbeck by enhancing their leadership, English, and computer skills, as well as providing them with civic education. The project period runs from September 30, 2024 to December 16, 2025. The grant funding will support...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (CFDA 19.519 - Overseas Refugee Assistance Program for Middle East and North Africa) provides $2,448,492.00 to support the protection and assistance of adolescent girls and young women at risk of or affected by child and early marriage and other forms of gender-based violence in Lebanon. The award aims to ensure these vulnerable populations have access to quality integrated...

This $400,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) supports a collaborative research initiative called "EPIIC: EMPOWERED -- Building the Future Workforce Together." The project involves a partnership across six academic institutions - Hobart and William Smith College, University of Maine at Farmington, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Montgomery College, Benjamin Franklin...

This Project Grant award of $199,999 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs' Middle East Partnership Initiative (CFDA 19.500) aims to improve the economic participation of 350 vulnerable female youth in three underserved governorates in Jordan. The funding will support activities to facilitate stable employment in the private sector or self-employment for this target population. The project will be implemented by the non-profit organization Questscope for Social...