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New for the Annual Grant Competition:
Program Experts
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Senior Program Officer, Center for Conflict Management
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Program Officer, Grant Program
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Leadership
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Senior Adviser for Middle East Initiatives
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Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center
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The Grant Program increases the breadth and depth of the Institute's work by supporting peacebuilding projects managed by non-profit organizations including educational institutions, research institutions, and civil society organizations.
In over twenty years of grantmaking, the Grant Program's Annual Grant Competition and Priority Grant Competition have received nearly 10,000 applications and awarded over 2,000 grants. The Institute has provided funding to grantees located in 46 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and in 81 foreign countries.
Highlights
Cross-cultural dialogue is essential for peacebuilding. Finding innovative approaches to such exchange is at the heart of an initiative called Jerusalem Stories, for which USIP was a primary grantor.
USIP-funded grantee, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela has received several awards for her book titled A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003). Awards include the 2007 Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal; the Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction Writing (called the Pulitzer Prize of South Africa); and the Christopher Award for Adult Non-Fiction in the United States.
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The USIP grant-funded film about inter-religious tension and dialogue in Nigeria titled The Imam and the Pastor won first prize in the Short Documentary section of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival, which was held in St. Louis, Missouri and Lagos, Nigeria in October and November 2007, respectively.