Project Grant SML20020GR0009

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees to promote women's fundamental rights in Togo from September 2021 through August 2022. The grant supports reducing gender-based violence, promoting access to identification documents for women, and training girls to combat online harassment. These services align with the goals of the Africa Regional Democracy Fund program administered by the Bureau of African Affairs under CFDA...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Ascend International Studios Services LIMITED to facilitate a 2022 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Nigeria. Under the agreement, Ascend will conduct a five-month AWE Academy for 250 women currently operating small and medium enterprises across southern Nigeria. The goal is to support the achievement of U.S. public diplomacy goals through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $2,170,300.00 and issued by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs under the State/African Regional - Other Economic Support Funds (ESF) Projects/Programs (CFDA 19.989), aims to foster girls' participation, learning and retention in secondary-level STEM education in Kenya and Namibia. The award, granted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will support collaborative educational programs,...

This Project Grant award of $499,999.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and testing of the "MYTURN" afterschool social robotics program to promote interest in computing among middle school students, particularly girls. The University of Illinois Chicago will co-design the program with women mentors from industry and undergraduate computer science programs, enabling middle school girls to work in teams to design and...

This Project Grant of $308,277 was awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Digital Promise Global, a non-profit organization, to develop a professional development approach using a library of vetted video cases. The goal is to build elementary teachers' capacity for inclusive computational thinking (CT) integration within their core instruction in subjects like math, science, and language arts. The project will partner with urban and rural school...

This Project Grant award of $608,507 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of a training program on the treatment of health complications due to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Tanzania. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year award include: 1) conducting a social ecological needs assessment to...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded a $499,959 Project Grant to Samuel Merritt University (SMU) under the Preventing Trafficking of Girls (CFDA 16.035) program. The primary purpose of this 3-year initiative, titled "Value H.E.R. (Hope, Education, and Respect)," is to prevent sex and labor trafficking among Black and Latinx girls in Alameda County, California. The project establishes a partnership between SMU, A Sista's Touch, and Bay Area Women...

The Department of State Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration awarded a $600,000 cooperative agreement to Stiftelsen Flyktninghjelpen from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023 under the Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa (CFDA 19.517). The award will support efforts to promote access to inclusive and quality education opportunities for crisis-affected boys and girls aged 6-17 in Niger, including people with disabilities, while providing professional development to refugee...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a $257,660 project titled "DIGITAL MATHEMATICS STORYTELLING: FRACTION STORIES FROM URBAN EMERGENT COMMUNITIES" at CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation. The project aims to investigate how elementary students in urban communities can use mobile technology to create digital mathematics stories that connect the math they learn in school to the math they see in their...