Opportunity Information: Apply for ECA ECAPEC 17 010
The FY 2017 National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) grant opportunity is a U.S. Department of State program run through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Office of Citizen Exchanges, seeking a single organization to partner with the government under one cooperative agreement. The purpose of NSLI-Y is to expand the number of American high school students, specifically ages 15 to 18, who gain meaningful proficiency in key foreign languages considered important to U.S. national interests. The program is framed around several connected foreign policy goals: strengthening national security by building language and cultural expertise, improving U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, advancing mutual understanding between Americans and people overseas through exchange, and ensuring strong youth participation in international engagement.
Under this competition, ECA planned to fund one primary award recipient that would take on the broad, end-to-end management of NSLI-Y. That lead organization would be responsible not just for running a small set of activities, but for overseeing the full organizational and administrative structure of the program. A major part of that responsibility includes arranging and delivering overseas language study opportunities through scholarships for roughly 590 individual student participants. Those scholarships would support both summer programs in 2018 and academic year programs spanning 2018 to 2019. The overseas programs are expected to be hosted in locations where the target languages are commonly spoken, with the funded languages listed as Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian (Tajiki or Farsi), Russian, and Turkish. In addition to administering new participant programs, the award also supports programming for NSLI-Y alumni across all program years, meaning the recipient is expected to maintain and add value to an ongoing national network of former participants.
The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means substantial involvement by the federal agency during implementation, rather than a hands-off grant. In practical terms, the awardee would collaborate closely with ECA and follow the detailed requirements laid out in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and the Project Objectives, Goals and Implementation (POGI) guidance. ECA also anticipated that the single prime recipient would not personally deliver every overseas program directly. Instead, the recipient would identify, vet, and manage qualified sub-award recipients to implement many of the in-country language programs, while the prime organization retains responsibility for overall performance, compliance, coordination, and consistent program quality across countries and languages.
Eligibility is open to a range of U.S. entities, including public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (including nonprofits that are not higher education institutions). The opportunity is categorized as discretionary, with the funding activity category listed as "Other" and the CFDA number 19.415. The opportunity number is ECA-ECAPEC-17-010. The announcement was created on 2016-12-06, with an original closing date of 2017-02-06. The listed award ceiling is $8,900,000, reflecting the scale of the program and the expectation that the recipient will administer hundreds of scholarships, coordinate multiple overseas sites and implementing partners, and deliver both participant and alumni programming under a single unified national effort.Apply for ECA ECAPEC 17 010
- The Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2017 National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.415.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2016-12-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-02-06. (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 $8,900,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.
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