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Apply for 2022 Future Leaders Exchange Program

Deadline: 6-Dec-21

The Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has announced an open competition for cooperative agreements for the FY 2022 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program: Student Placement and Monitoring Component.

The FLEX program, created in 1992, supports U.S. foreign policy goals by promoting mutual understanding and enhancing relations between the United States and the participating European and Eurasian countries. The FLEX program provides scholarships for high school students to live with an American family in American society for an academic year and acquire leadership skills while attending a U.S. high school.
 
The students live with host families, participate in activities to learn about American society and values, and, in turn, expose their host communities across the United States to the cultures and traditions of the people of Europe and Eurasia. To date, more than 30,000 students have participated in the FLEX program.
 
Goals
 
The overarching goals of the FLEX program are to engage youth, promote leadership, foster lasting ties between Americans and foreign participants, and promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of the participating Eurasian countries, by enabling the students to:
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Eligible Countries
 
The FLEX students are recruited from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
 
Eligibility Criteria
 
U.S. public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) may submit applications for this competition. Applicants must have nonprofit status with the IRS at the time of application.
 
The following additional eligibility requirements apply to this NOFO announcement:
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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336023

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