Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 - Mauritius | PORTLOUIS AEIF FY25 01

Opportunity Information: Apply for PORTLOUIS AEIF FY25 01

The Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 (AEIF 2025) in Mauritius is a competitive grant opportunity run by the U.S. Mission to Mauritius (U.S. Embassy) for alumni of U.S. government-funded or U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs. The program is designed to help former exchange participants take the skills, networks, and ideas they gained during their U.S.-supported exchange experiences and turn them into practical, community-focused projects that respond to real challenges. AEIF has been operating globally since 2011 and has supported nearly 500 alumni-led projects worldwide, and the 2025 round continues that model by funding alumni teams to design and implement innovative solutions with local impact.

AEIF 2025 is explicitly focused on themes aligned with current U.S. priorities. For this cycle, proposals are encouraged that advance democracy and transparency, entrepreneurship, education and English language initiatives, sustainable resources, and media and civil society capacity building. The opportunity is intentionally broad in terms of activity areas, with listed categories spanning agriculture, arts, business and commerce, community development, education, energy, environment, science and technology, and research and development, among others. That flexibility means applicants can propose a wide range of projects as long as they clearly connect to the priority themes and demonstrate credible outcomes for the community they intend to serve.

Eligibility is centered on the applicant being an exchange alum. Applicants must be alumni of a U.S. government-funded or sponsored exchange program listed through the U.S. Department of State alumni network, or alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs connected to the J-1 visa exchange framework. Proposals must be submitted by exchange alumni themselves or by alumni associations made up of U.S. government exchange alumni. Project teams must include at least two alumni, and teams can be mixed across different exchange programs and even across different countries, which allows for cross-program collaboration and regional perspectives. A key restriction is that U.S. citizens are not allowed to submit proposals as applicants, although U.S. citizen alumni are permitted to participate as members of a project team.

The program is structured as a discretionary grant. The funding opportunity number is PORTLOUIS AEIF FY25 01, and it is listed under CFDA number 19.022. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is USD 35,000, and the Embassy anticipates making up to 10 awards. While the notice does not list a minimum award amount in the provided text, the ceiling and expected number of awards indicate a small-grants model intended to support targeted, implementable projects rather than large, multi-year programs.

Applications must be submitted by email to PortLouisPAS@state.gov, and the deadline for submission is January 31, 2025. The opportunity was created on December 11, 2024. Finally, while organizations like nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks, and academic institutions can collaborate as implementing partners, they cannot apply in their own name for this funding. The application must be led and submitted by eligible exchange alumni (or an alumni association), with partner organizations playing a supporting role in delivering activities where useful.

• The U.S. Mission to Mauritius in the agriculture, arts, business and commerce, community development, education, energy, environment, other, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2025 - Mauritius" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.022.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $35,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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