Closed · DOS-KAZ-AST-AEECA-FY18-004 · CFDA 19.040 · Discretionary

GoViral Festival

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $1.3M
Award range
Closed
Status
August 16, 2018
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

GoViral Festival is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs that offered Up to $1,250,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 149 other opportunities from Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.

up to $1.3M
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
19.040
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

GoViral Festival is closed (last close August 16, 2018). The parent program page for CFDA 19.040 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs still indexes 149 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed August 16, 2018

Posted Jun 14 Closes Aug 16

Est. Total Funding

$1,250,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Kazakhstan announces a full and open competition for organizations to submit applications to manage ongoing programming for the “Go Viral” Festival and corresponding Network. The Go Viral Festival was launched by U.S. Consulate Almaty in June 2017 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as an opportunity for innovators in media, culture, business and technology to learn from one another and engage with American and European experts in their fields of interest. The annual Festival is modeled after South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, and includes music, art, TED style talks, and engaging workshops for young innovators. Following the success of the Go Viral Festival in 2017, the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty established the Go Viral Network to continue and expand engagement with up-and-coming independent voices in Central Asia, and to provide opportunities for network members to collaborate with each other. The Network includes thousands of innovators from 16 countries who attended the Go Viral Festivals in 2017 and 2018 as well as participants from an annual “48 Hour Film Race” from cities across Kazakhstan and eight countries.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · DOS-KAZ-AST-AEECA-FY18-004

Grants.gov marks GoViral Festival with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Other (O). This eligibility-code string dominates the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs book (104 peers, 69% of 150).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 19.040

USAID International Development Grants

U.S. Department of State

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Agency Contact

Ellen Delage, Program Specialist, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

What to do next

GoViral Festival is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 19.040 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • USAID International Development Grants indexes 47 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs lists 149 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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