Closed · H-NOFO-19-102 · CFDA 19.040 · Discretionary

Connecting Cultures: Cross-border Slam Poetry Program

Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. Mission to India, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$75K-$100K
Award range
Closed
Status
July 15, 2019
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Connecting Cultures: Cross-border Slam Poetry Program is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. Mission to India that offered $75,000 -- $100,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 329 other opportunities from U.S. Mission to India.

$75K-$100K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
19.040
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Connecting Cultures: Cross-border Slam Poetry… is closed (last close July 15, 2019). The parent program page for CFDA 19.040 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. U.S. Mission to India still indexes 329 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 July 15, 2019

Posted Jun 7 Closes Jul 15

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Grant

Description

Based on funding availability, PAS Hyderabad will support a program through which the grantee will identity two groups of 15-20 students between the ages of 15-18, one group in each India and Pakistan, to help them arrive at initial drafts of poems (in Hindu, Urdu, or English) about their perceptions of one another’s countries, about conflict and peace building, or about other topics of concern to them as young people. Through a series of digital video conferences, students will be able to practice their poems and receive feedback from their counterparts across the border. The grantee will further identify an American expert on poetry to travel once to each country and work directly with the students on their work. Finally, a subset of students from each country will be invited to a third country in the region to meet, interact, and perform their work for an audience that includes youth and prominent individuals from the host city. The third city will be decided by the grantee in consultation with the U.S. Consulate Hyderabad. In addition to providing a platform for our Mission to better understand regional concerns through the eyes of the next generation of Indians and Pakistanis, this program facilitates direct people-to-people interactions between an American expert poet, Indians, and Pakistanis. This program also reinforces our commitment to spread the values of pluralism, religious freedom, and freedom of speech, helping to facilitate regional reconciliation and promote understanding across the Subcontinent.

Campus–civic applicant bridge · 3 doors

Connecting Cultures: Cross-border Slam Poetry… bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (3 doors: Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Private institutions of higher education). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity codes span Arts · Community Development · Education · Humanities (AR;CD;ED;HU). Inside U.S. Mission to India's indexed book this exact eligibility-code string is unique to this listing.

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 13
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

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

Hyderabad Grants Team U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad Paigah Palace, 1-8-323, Chiran Fort Lane Begumpet, Secunderabad-500 003 Telangana, INDIA HYDGrantApplications@state.gov

What to do next

Connecting Cultures: Cross-border Slam Poetry… 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
  • U.S. Mission to India lists 329 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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