Project Grant USIP27104S

This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program, provides $450,000 to support long-term research fellowships at the William Foxwell Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. The funding will support up to three fellows annually from 2023 to 2026, with each fellow receiving a $5,000 monthly stipend for 4 to 6 months of continuous residence at the Institute. During their tenures, fellows will...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $180,118 cooperative agreement to Mosaica, Religion, Society And State to cultivate conflict resolution skills among young Arab and Jewish Israelis from September 30, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The award is being made under the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) program, which works to enhance international capacity for United Nations and regional peace operations that are strategically important to U.S. national...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $124,403 Project Grant under the ECA – American Spaces federal grant program (CFDA 19.441) to bring together 400 pairs of Jewish and Arab students in Israel's higher education institutions. The grant funding will support shared experiential learning in Hebrew and Arabic between the 800 students through December 2022. As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the ECA – American Spaces program aims to provide free and open...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to Matan - Investing In The Community (NPA) on September 30, 2022 under the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa federal grant program (CFDA 19.021). The award will support efforts to instill a sense of urgency and responsibility for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among hundreds of religious, ethnic, and geographic communities in Israel. Specifically, the grantee will...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $112,111 Project Grant (Federal Grant ID: SIS70024GR0518) under the "Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa" program (CFDA 19.021) to Jerusalem Peacebuilders, Inc. The grant aims to increase the capacity of Arab and Jewish high school teachers in Israel to integrate practices of experiential education, intergroup relations, youth leadership, and conflict management into their classrooms and...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $153,914 cooperative agreement to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees on September 30, 2022 through the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa federal grant program (CFDA 19.021). The agreement will support the HOPE IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM project to be completed by December 31, 2023. Under this cooperative agreement, Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees will provide cultural, educational, alumni, information and media...

This federal Project Grant award, with an ID of SIS70024GR0004 and total funding of $651,250.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (CFDA 19.600) to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Authority for Research and Development Division. The grant supports a research project titled "M43-003: HOW TO CONVERT FOE TO FRIEND: SOME STRESSES PROTECT PLANTS FROM OTHERS." The research, which began on November 14, 2023 and is scheduled for completion by...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $327,000 project grant to the United States Israel Educational Foundation to support public education, scholarly analysis and research, and academic visits between Israeli and U.S. scholars. This award falls under the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa federal grant program (CFDA 19.021), which supports cultural, educational, alumni, information and media efforts in the region. Specifically, the Foundation will...

This Project Grant award of $100,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs under the "Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa" (CFDA 19.021) federal grant program. The award is to arrange weekend retreats for young Palestinian women between the ages of 14-35 that will increase their knowledge of peacebuilding, nonviolent activism, and begin to imagine alternatives to occupation, violence, despair, or apathy. The award has...

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded a $673,800 Project Grant to Tel Aviv University under the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs federal grant program (CFDA 19.600) to study the potential adverse developmental and nutritional consequences of Helicobacter pylori infection in Palestinian and Israeli children. The award, issued on April 27, 2022, will fund research through April 10, 2025 to support the program's goal of furthering the foreign assistance objectives of the...