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Youth Ambassadors for Community Service 2025
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U. S. Embassy France Public Diplomacy Section of the U. S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement an exchange program for up to 30 French high school students, in the United States, for fifteen days in October and/or
November 202 5. Through the Youth Ambassadors for Community Service program, up to 30 young adults from France between the ages of 15 and 17 will develop the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to become more engaged in their communities, learn about the U. S. education system, and will further their understanding of the United States.
Please follow all instructions below.
Purpose of the Youth Ambassadors for Community Service Program:
Established in 2008, the Youth Ambassadors for Community Service Program selects high-school participants from underserved backgrounds across France, including the French Caribbean, to participate in a yearlong leadership training program that encourages volunteerism, self-confidence, intercultural sensitivity, and independence.
Participants will attend two pre-departure training sessions between January 2025 and June 2025, as well as a debriefing upon their return, organized by a different French implementing NGO, in coordination with the organization awarded the overall grant.
In partnership with the U. S. Embassy France, the recipient organization will design the two-week U. S. exchange program, in October and/or November 2025, which will enhance participants’ understanding of American democratic institutions and volunteer initiatives.
Participants will travel to Washington D.C.
for initial programming.
After spending time in Washington D.C., they will be divided into subgroups in three different cities/host communities, where they will be placed with American host families and meet American students their age.
They will then return to Washington D.C.
for debriefing and evaluation, as well as visits to the Department of State and the French Embassy to the United States.
Participants will engage in a variety of activities, including but not limited to workshops on leadership and community service, community site visits related to program themes, interactive training and discussion groups, volunteer opportunities, visits to educational facilities, local cultural activities, homestays, and other activities designed to achieve the program’s stated goals.
The exchange must include multiple opportunities for participants to have significant, meaningful interactions with their American peers.
Program Objectives:
Promote equal opportunities for all and encourage knowledge-sharing and intercultural dialogue between French and American youth.
Raise awareness about civic engagement and volunteerism among young people.
Strengthen Franco-American friendship and understanding through soft diplomacy.
Offer French youth the chance to represent their peers and participate in civic initiatives abroad.
Build leadership skills, encourage volunteerism, self-confidence, intercultural sensitivity, and nurture excellence and civic engagement among young leaders from underserved communities.
Allow participants to become pillars of community organization, keeping their peers involved in positive social activities and promoting tolerance and achievement.
Provide participants with tools to build alliances with American counterparts and to produce positive change in underserved communities.
Program Outline:
Applicants must demonstrate their capacity for conducting international exchanges in the United States administering exchanges focused on youth that involve different geographic regions; implementing exchange projects that address specific policy challenges; and providing substantive programming and leadership training for youth.
The award recipient will be responsible for the oversight and management of performance of all sub-award recipients under the award.
U. S. Embassy France reserves the right to reduce, revise, or increase proposal project configurations, budgets, participating countries and regions, and participant numbers in accordance with the needs of the program and the availability of funds The budget should include international travel to and from the United States for up to 30 participants (including domestic travel for up to 25 metropolitan participants to and from Paris and their French city of residence).
One staff member must accompany participants for the international travel (France-United States-France).
The budget should include the in-country travel and local transportation, lodging, activities, food, insurance, and ESTA costs for up to 30 participants.
As participants are under 18, they must be accompanied by facilitators and the host families must be validated by the recipient organization.
Participants and Audiences:
Up to 30 outstanding French high school students, between the ages of 15 and 17, many from underprivileged backgrounds with leadership potential and commitment to civic engagement.
For more information, eligibility, and deadlines please read the Notice of Funding Opportunity PDS-France-FY2024-04 and/or refer to the U. S. Embassy in France website (Grants Programs).
Questions can be directed to GrantsFrance@state.gov We do not provide any pre-consultation for application related questions that are addressed in the Notice of Funding Opportunity.
Please follow all instructions below.
Purpose of the Youth Ambassadors for Community Service Program:
Established in 2008, the Youth Ambassadors for Community Service Program selects high-school participants from underserved backgrounds across France, including the French Caribbean, to participate in a yearlong leadership training program that encourages volunteerism, self-confidence, intercultural sensitivity, and independence.
Participants will attend two pre-departure training sessions between January 2025 and June 2025, as well as a debriefing upon their return, organized by a different French implementing NGO, in coordination with the organization awarded the overall grant.
In partnership with the U. S. Embassy France, the recipient organization will design the two-week U. S. exchange program, in October and/or November 2025, which will enhance participants’ understanding of American democratic institutions and volunteer initiatives.
Participants will travel to Washington D.C.
for initial programming.
After spending time in Washington D.C., they will be divided into subgroups in three different cities/host communities, where they will be placed with American host families and meet American students their age.
They will then return to Washington D.C.
for debriefing and evaluation, as well as visits to the Department of State and the French Embassy to the United States.
Participants will engage in a variety of activities, including but not limited to workshops on leadership and community service, community site visits related to program themes, interactive training and discussion groups, volunteer opportunities, visits to educational facilities, local cultural activities, homestays, and other activities designed to achieve the program’s stated goals.
The exchange must include multiple opportunities for participants to have significant, meaningful interactions with their American peers.
Program Objectives:
Promote equal opportunities for all and encourage knowledge-sharing and intercultural dialogue between French and American youth.
Raise awareness about civic engagement and volunteerism among young people.
Strengthen Franco-American friendship and understanding through soft diplomacy.
Offer French youth the chance to represent their peers and participate in civic initiatives abroad.
Build leadership skills, encourage volunteerism, self-confidence, intercultural sensitivity, and nurture excellence and civic engagement among young leaders from underserved communities.
Allow participants to become pillars of community organization, keeping their peers involved in positive social activities and promoting tolerance and achievement.
Provide participants with tools to build alliances with American counterparts and to produce positive change in underserved communities.
Program Outline:
Applicants must demonstrate their capacity for conducting international exchanges in the United States administering exchanges focused on youth that involve different geographic regions; implementing exchange projects that address specific policy challenges; and providing substantive programming and leadership training for youth.
The award recipient will be responsible for the oversight and management of performance of all sub-award recipients under the award.
U. S. Embassy France reserves the right to reduce, revise, or increase proposal project configurations, budgets, participating countries and regions, and participant numbers in accordance with the needs of the program and the availability of funds The budget should include international travel to and from the United States for up to 30 participants (including domestic travel for up to 25 metropolitan participants to and from Paris and their French city of residence).
One staff member must accompany participants for the international travel (France-United States-France).
The budget should include the in-country travel and local transportation, lodging, activities, food, insurance, and ESTA costs for up to 30 participants.
As participants are under 18, they must be accompanied by facilitators and the host families must be validated by the recipient organization.
Participants and Audiences:
Up to 30 outstanding French high school students, between the ages of 15 and 17, many from underprivileged backgrounds with leadership potential and commitment to civic engagement.
For more information, eligibility, and deadlines please read the Notice of Funding Opportunity PDS-France-FY2024-04 and/or refer to the U. S. Embassy in France website (Grants Programs).
Questions can be directed to GrantsFrance@state.gov We do not provide any pre-consultation for application related questions that are addressed in the Notice of Funding Opportunity.
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
NCUA Grants page with all the relevant details regarding the CDRLF grants program
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Individuals and For-Profit Organizations are ineligible to apply for awards under this NOFO.This program NOFO does not support entities hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993.
The Public Lands Corps Act of 1993, 16 USC, Chapter 37, Subchapter II-Public Lands Corps, is the only legislative authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under this authority.
Therefore, eligible Youth Conservation Corps may only apply for projects developed under NOFO 15.243 – BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands.
CESUs are partnerships with a purpose to promote, conduct, and provide research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and educational services.
If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement which is consistent with the CESU purpose, indirect costs are limited to a rate of no-more-than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner's Federal Agency-approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA).
Applicant’s should specify if their proposal furthers the purpose of the CESU program, and if so which CESU Network should be considered as host.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://ncua.gov/support-services/credit-union-resources-expansion/grants-loans/grants
Contact:
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Date Posted:
2024-04-02
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2024-07-01
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