Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0008758
The FY 2022 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program Overseas Components opportunity is a U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) funding competition to select one organization to run the overseas side of the YES program through a cooperative agreement. The grant is administered by ECA's Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division, and it supports the YES program's broader purpose of advancing U.S. foreign policy goals by engaging young people, strengthening civil society, and building long-term relationships between students and communities in the United States and partner countries through in-person, academic-year exchanges.
This cooperative agreement focuses specifically on the "overseas components" of YES, meaning the pieces of the program that take place outside the United States and the cross-border functions that enable the exchanges to happen. The YES program has two tracks. The first is the YES inbound program, which brings high school students from other countries to the United States for an academic year. The second is YES Abroad, which sends American high school students to selected YES partner countries for an exchange experience. Under this FY 2022 award, the recipient would be responsible for core operational work such as recruitment and selection of participants, pre-departure orientation, international travel coordination, serving as a liaison with students' natural parents, and maintaining alumni support structures. In addition, the award covers the placement and ongoing support of American participants while they are abroad as part of YES Abroad.
A key boundary of this award is that it does not pay for the U.S.-based placement and support of the international students coming to the United States on the inbound program. That work is handled under separate awards referred to as the YES Placement Components. The funding notice makes clear that there is an expected working relationship between the organization selected for this overseas components award and the separate placement-component awardees, with coordination and division of responsibilities described in more detail in the program description section of the full NOFO.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity (not an entitlement program) and the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial programmatic involvement by the Department of State during implementation compared to a standard grant. The opportunity number is SFOP0008758 and it is associated with CFDA number 19.415. Eligible applicants include U.S. public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) IRS status (with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement). The agency anticipated making a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $16,911,400. The opportunity was posted on March 22, 2022, with an original application deadline of May 20, 2022.
In practical terms, the selected recipient would function as the central organizer for overseas recruitment and preparation, travel logistics, parent communications, and alumni engagement for the YES network, while also ensuring American participants placed abroad receive appropriate support. At the same time, the recipient would need to coordinate closely with the separate U.S.-based placement providers responsible for host family placement and domestic support of inbound students, so that students and families experience the program as one integrated exchange even though it is funded and administered through multiple awards.Apply for SFOP0008758
- The Department of State, Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2022 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program Overseas Components" 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 Mar 22, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 20, 2022. (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 $16,911,400.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- 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 (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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