Embassy of the United States Nassau, Bahamas

Call for Proposals - PEPFAR – HIV/AIDS -  Educating people, especially youth, preventing its spread, reducing stigma and encouraging safe practices for those living with the disease and supporting communities to cooperate in fighting the epidemic.   Send proposals to: NassauSmallGrants@state.gov.  Due by November 16, 2012.

GENERAL

Rolex Awards for Enterprise – Submit projects that tackle the world's most pressing issues in five areas: Science and Health; Applied Technology; Exploration and Discovery; The Environment and Cultural Heritage. Judged on feasibility, originality, potential for sustained impact and candidate's spirit of enterprise.

HIV/AIDS

PND service - The MSM Initiative; Elton John Aids Foundation – Support direct service interventions to reach gay men, other MSM, and/or transgender individuals; structural interventions that address underlying factors associated with HIV (such as decriminalization efforts, campaigns against homophobia and transphobia, health service provider training on MSM-friendly services, etc.); research studies; and/or advocacy and policy activities.

Gender-Equality

• Thanksgiving Fund – Social, economic or health justice; Environmental protection and restoration; The Arts; and/or Gender equality.    
• Funds for Gender Equality - Exclusively dedicated to women’s economic and political empowerment, two types of grants.  Women’s economic empowerment – The objective is to increase women’s access to and control over decision-making, land, technology, credit, livelihoods and other means of production and social protection.  Women’s political empowerment – The objective is for women to take on leadership roles and participate more fully in political processes and in all spheres on public life, particularly formal institutions. Young women leaders are a particular focus.

Human Rights 

• NED - National Endowment for Democracy – For NGO groups abroad working to ensure human rights, an independent media, the rule of law and to advance other democratic goals.   
• Oak Foundation – Each program has its own goals, geographic scope, funding restrictions and requirements for funding. Please read our program pages for details: Child Abuse, Environment, Housing and Homelessness, International Human Rights, Issues Affecting Women, Learning Differences and Special Interest.  Includes a database of other organizations with project information of past projects and supporting donors.

Civil Society

Inter-American Foundation Call for Proposals – IAF funds the self-help efforts of grassroots groups in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve living conditions of the disadvantaged and the excluded, enhance their capacity for decision-making and self-governance, develop partnerships with the public sector, business and civil society.

Women's Issues/focused-projects

Mama Cash – Three priority is working  at the crossroads of the themes: Body-safety at home and public spaces, end  body mutilations, right to choose over body, sex, reproduction, etc.., Money-equal pay, labor laws, stop trafficking of women and girls, right to control finances, land, etc... and Voice-using arts, media and popular culture to transform attitudes and behaviors, peace building, human rights, social justice movements, etc....

Conservation

• The Reef Ball Foundation  - Non-profit and international environmental NGO working to rehabilitate world's ocean & marine reefs ecosystems and protect the natural reef systems as well as dedicated to making new aquatic habitats by helping folks build Reef Ball artificial reefs technologies and place modules in the ocean to form reef habitat and teaching about the value of natural reefs.
• MacAuthur Foundation:  Coastal Marine in the Caribbean, Madagascar and Melanesia.  Seek to identify new areas where an integrated community-based approach could be effective and will support community-based marine conservation. Help improve the productivity and reliability of the services that the ocean provides to coastal communities by conserving marine and coastal biodiversity through sustainable fisheries management and maintaining essential habitats.

Cultural/Arts/Media-Journalists 

Coca-Cola Foundation – Grants support the Foundation's global priority areas, including: active, healthy living; water stewardship; community recycling; education; other local priorities, such as youth development, community improvement, economic development and environmental responsibility.

Youth 

The Global Fund for Children – Selects grantee partners based on their demonstrated potential to produce sustainable improvement in the lives of vulnerable children and youth and to serve as a resource or model for other organizations. Our grantee partners reach the children of “the last mile”—those who are economically and socially outside the reach of mainstream services and support, including street children, child laborers, AIDS orphans, sex workers, hard-to-reach rural populations, and other vulnerable or marginalized groups.

Crime/Trafficking/Gangs

IACC - Game Changers - We are looking for people who are motivated to solve social problems and develop new methods, tools and projects to fight corruption.

U.S. Embassy Speakers' Program

This program is free of charge for host institutions. Please submit your dates early enough to give us time for administrative formalities. Also note that the speaker’s schedule will be sent a few weeks before the program. Please complete the entire questionnaire and return it to our office no later than two weeks prior to the presentation. This program should be finalized and approved by the school administration. 

If our office does not receive the completed questionnaire two weeks prior to the date of the presentation, we will assume that you are no longer interested in the program and will cancel the request.  To help us match you with the best possible speaker, please answer these questions in as much detail as possible.  All questions that are marked with * are compulsory: Click here to open the questionnaire (PDF 114 KB)

Please email completed questionnaires to thibaulte@state.gov