Opportunity Information: Apply for DFOP0017094
The FY 2025 Community College Initiative (CCI) Program is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), run through its Office of Global Educational Programs. ECA is soliciting proposals for a single cooperative agreement to design, implement, and oversee the entire CCI Program. In practical terms, the selected awardee will serve as ECA's primary implementing partner and will be responsible for building and managing a national-scale program that places international participants at accredited U.S. community colleges for intensive, skills-focused study and related programming.
At its core, the CCI Program is an international exchange and workforce development initiative aimed at bringing foreign emerging leaders to the United States for up to one academic year of study at community colleges. The program is built around two connected goals: first, helping participants gain technical and professional skills aligned with real labor market needs; and second, deepening their understanding of the United States, including American society, people, and values. Participants are often recruited from underrepresented audiences, which signals an emphasis on expanding access to international exchange opportunities beyond traditional pipelines and ensuring broad, inclusive representation among grantees and cohorts.
A key feature of this opportunity is that program specifics are expected to track U.S. foreign policy priorities and evolving global workforce demands. That means the implementing partner should anticipate that participating countries, fields of study, program content, and even the duration or structure of academic and non-academic components may be shaped by U.S. government strategic considerations and by high-demand skills areas. The awardee would therefore need to demonstrate the ability to manage a program that can adapt to changing priorities, coordinate across multiple institutions, and deliver consistent participant support and oversight across varied placements.
The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, not a standard grant. This typically indicates a higher level of federal involvement in the project, with ECA likely collaborating closely on major program elements such as cohort composition, policy compliance, performance monitoring, and key programmatic decisions. The opportunity lists one expected award with an award ceiling of $5,625,000, reflecting that ECA intends to fund a single organization to run the program at full scale rather than distributing funds among multiple independent grantees.
Eligibility is oriented toward U.S. public and private nonprofit organizations, including institutions of higher education, as well as nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, and other eligible entities listed in the notice. A critical limitation is that applicants are expected to represent consortia or other combinations of accredited U.S. community colleges. In other words, proposals should reflect a structure capable of coordinating placements and programming across multiple community college partners, rather than operating through a single campus alone. The notice also makes clear that each applicant organization may submit only one proposal, and ECA will review only one submission per applicant. If multiple submissions from the same applicant appear in Grants.gov, ECA will only consider the one submitted closest to the deadline, and that submission becomes the only proposal reviewed for that organization.
Administrative details provided in the source data include the funding opportunity number DFOP0017094, CFDA number 19.009, and an original closing date of February 18, 2025. The agency name is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Overall, this competition is designed to select one lead implementer with the capacity to run a nationwide community college-based exchange program for international emerging leaders, combining academic study with professional skill-building and structured cultural engagement that advances U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy objectives.Apply for DFOP0017094
- The Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2025 Community College Initiative Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.009.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-20.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-18. (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 $5,625,000.00 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.
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