Closed · OFOP0001675 · CFDA 19.022 · Discretionary

Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call for Proposals

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

$5K-$35K
Award range
Closed
Status
February 14, 2025
Close date
2
Expected awards

The verdict

Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call for Proposals is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. Mission to Barbados that offered $5,000 -- $35,000 across 2 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 15 other opportunities from U.S. Mission to Barbados.

$5K-$35K
award range
Closed
application status
2
expected awards
19.022
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call f… is closed (last close February 14, 2025). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. U.S. Mission to Barbados still indexes 15 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 February 14, 2025

Posted Nov 6 Closes Feb 14

Est. Total Funding

$35,000

Expected Awards

2

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS), U.S. Embassy Bridgetown, of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for past participants (“alumni”) of U.S. government-funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs to submit applications to the 2025 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF 2025). We seek proposals from teams comprising of at least two alumni that meet all program eligibility requirements listed below. Priority Region: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Program Goals and Objectives: The AEIF is a funding opportunity which is designed to strengthen the U.S. government’s relations with exchange alumni, advance foreign policy goals and highlight the US. government’s investment in professional and academic exchange programs. AEIF provides alumni of U.S. sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience and to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community. Since its inception in 2011, AEIF has funded approximately 500 alumni-led projects around the world through competitive global competition. This year, U.S. Embassy Bridgetown through the AEIF 2025 will support the United States’ commitment to working with our partners around the world to advance Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment and Economic Prosperity and Cooperation. The desired outcomes are to reduce the region’s risk and vulnerability to climate change, strengthen their resilience, enhance well-being and their capacity to anticipate and respond successfully to change, as well as support the development of entrepreneurship in the Eastern Caribbean. PDS will accept for review, projects proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni that support either of the below themes:  Climate Change Resilience, and the Environment  Economic Prosperity

Individual applicant lane · OFOP0001675

Grants.gov lists individuals as an eligible applicant type for Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call f…. This is a person-facing lane rather than a pure organization competition desk. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Environment (ENV). This eligibility-code string dominates the U.S. Mission to Barbados book (7 peers, 44% of 16).

Code 21
Individuals

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Agency Contact

Lisa Howell - bridgetownexchanges@state.gov

What to do next

Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 Call f… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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