Deadline: 6 August 2017
The Office of Citizenship (OoC), within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is charged with promoting instruction and training on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
The goal of the Citizenship Instruction grant is to provide support to community based organizations in their efforts to establish new citizenship instruction programs or expand the quality and reach of existing citizenship instruction programs and to provide opportunities for lawful permanent residents to gain the knowledge and training necessary to promote their assimilation into the fabric of American society.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Program Funding:
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply to this program:
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status, other than institutions of higher education, that are local in scope and service delivery area.
- To be eligible for this program, applicants must meet the below requirements.
- Applicants must be nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status;
- At the time of application, applicants must currently offer and have at least one year experience providing ESL instruction in a classroom setting that follows a curriculum.
- Eligible organizations include, but are not limited to: private, non-profit organizations such as civic, community, and faith-based organizations; adult education organizations; and volunteer and literacy organizations.
- Former awardees and sub-awardees under the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program and the Citizenship Grant Program are not eligible to receive funding with this program.
- Applicants and sub-applicants to the FY 2017 Citizenship and Assimilation Grant Program: Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (funding opportunity DHS-17-CIS-010- 002) are not eligible to apply to this program.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.