South Africa: 2020 Community College Initiative Program
Deadline: 15 December 2019
The U.S. Embassy South Africa Public Affairs Section, U.S. Department of State (PAS) has announced the “2020 Community College Initiative Program”.
The grantee will work cooperatively with the Public Affairs Sections in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg to manage the logistics for participants in the 2020-2021 Community College Initiative (CCI) Program. CCI provides scholarships to South African tertiary students to spend up to one academic year in a non-degree program (August – May) at U.S. community colleges to build technical skills through professional internships, service learning, and community engagement activities.
Activities
- Facilitating travel logistics and other related expenses of approximately 21 South African students including domestic travel related to testing, interviews, medical exams, passports, and pre-departure orientations.
- Logistics and related expenses for a three-day pre-departure orientation (PDO) in Johannesburg including venue selection and payment, and overnight accommodation and meals for participants.
- Domestic logistics and related expenses for 21 students to travel to the U.S. including travel allowance, transportation from home city to departure city, and hotel and meals in departure city if needed. (NOTE: U.S. cooperating agencies will arrange for participants’ round-trip international air travel so no travel expenses for international flight need to be included.)
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $37,000
- Award Floor: $30,000
Eligibility Criteria
- PAS encourages applications from U.S. and South African registered not-for-profit organizations, including civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience.
- For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
- PAS encourages applicants to provide cost-sharing from additional sources in support of the project, although cost sharing is not required.
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals from that institution will be considered ineligible for funding.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: South Africa and United States
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=321402