International Leaders in Education Program Alumni Small Grants Program

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International Leaders in Education Program
Alumni Small Grants Program

• A program of the Bureau of Educational Cultural
  Affairs (ECA),
• U.S. Department of State, and implemented by IREX
  

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Who is eligible?

• All alumni that have participated in the program
  over the past three years (2007, 2008, 2009) that
  have successfully completed all program
  requirements and are in good standing.

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What is the alumni small grants program?

• Opportunity to design and implement educational
  projects to benefit secondary education in your
  home community.

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Where can projects be implemented?

• Projects proposed under the alumni small grants
  program must be implemented in one of the
  following countries
• Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt,
  India, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia,
  Morocco, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa,
  Tunisia or Venezuela

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Grant categories available

• Collaborative School Grant
• Provides funding for programs/projects that
  benefit teachers and/or students of the primary
  applicants home country in partnership with a
  collaborator.
• Funding available from 500 up to 5,000.

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Grant categories available continued

• Non-Collaborative Grant
• Provides funding for programs/projects that
  benefit the teachers and/or students of the
  applicants home country BUT does not involve any
  collaborators.
• Funding available from 500 up to 5,000.

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Grant categories available continued

• Alumni Professional Development Grant
• Provides funding for professional development
  activities that benefit an ILEP alumni country
  cohort.
• Applicants are required to collaborate with at
  least one other ILEP alumnus to implement the
  project in their country.
• Funding available from 500 up to 5,000.

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Grant categories available continued

• Community Service Grant
• Provides funding for programs that benefit ILEP
  alumnis community at-large.
• Funding available for up to 500.

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Alumni Small Grants Deadlines and Cycles

• Grants will be awarded quarterly
• The next cycle is
• Application Deadline June 30, 2009
• Grant Award Recipients Announced August 7, 2009
• Project Completion Deadline December 30, 2009
• Final Report January 31, 2010
• Please visit the ILEP webpage at
  http//www.irex.org/programs/ilep for deadlines.

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How do I apply to win an ILEP Alumni Small
Grant?

• Complete an application and provide supporting
  materials.

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The Application

• The application has been designed in a
  question/answer format to help guide applicants
  on each component of the proposal.
• The application consists of 8 main components and
  supporting materials.

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Alumni Small Grants Application Components

• Statement of need
• Project goals and objectives
• Targeted beneficiaries
• Project collaborator (s) roles
• Project activities
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Project timeline
• Project budget and notes

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Statement of Need

• The Statement of Need expresses the issue,
  concerns or problem that you want to address
  through your grant.

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Statement of Need continued

• The statement of need explains
• The issue/ problem/need that you will address
  with the implementation of your project?
• How the project will impact your
  school/community?
• Why this project/program is important to you?

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Project Goals and Objectives

• The goal of a project is the overall purpose
  toward which program activities are directed.
  Goals are generally intangible, meaning they
  cannot be measured.
• Objectives are the intended target outcome(s) of
  a project. Objectives are tangible (concrete)
  and measurable.

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Targeted Beneficiaries

• Identifies who will benefit directly and
  indirectly from your project.
• Here are some questions that you need to ask
• How many people will my project impact directly?
• Who are the people that will receive an indirect
  benefit from my project?
• Where are they located?

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Project Collaborator(s) Roles

• Who is a collaborator?
• A collaborator can be a teacher/administrator
  from an ILEP host internship secondary school,
  ILEP host university administrator/faculty member
  and/or ILEP alumni from any ILEP program year,
  and any participating country.

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Project Collaborator(s) Roles

• The roles and responsibilities of the principal
  applicant and where applicable, the collaborator
  (s) during each step of the proposed project.

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Program Activities

• Each activity should include the following
  information
• What will you do?
• When will you do it?
• How long will the activity take to implement
  (days, months, etc)?
• How will you plan to implement the activity?
• If implementing a workshop, an illustrative
  workshop agenda should be included as supporting
  material.

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Monitoring and Evaluation (ME)

• Describe how you will evaluate the impact of the
  project in the school or community once the
  project is complete.
• The ME plan should be able to assess how many,
  and to what degree, program objectives were met.
• The evaluation measures whether the project
  activities achieved the anticipated results.

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Project Timeline

• An illustration of how your project will be
  implemented chronologically.
• The timeline includes all step-by-step the tasks
  that you will have to carry out to implement your
  project such as pre-planning, implementation, and
  post-program, and reporting activities against a
  calendar.

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Budget and Notes

• The budget is the reflection of your project in
  numbers therefore, it should include all the
  necessary costs to carry out every step and
  activity in your project.
• Budget notes should articulate how you arrived at
  your cost estimates.

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Supporting Materials

• Applicant and collaborator (s) CVs- max. 2 pages
  long
• Support letter from participating U.S. and
  international schools
• Support letter from primary applicants home
  school that also certifies full-time teaching
  employment in a secondary school

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Supporting Materials Continued

• Support letter from institutions/individuals
  providing in-kind donations for the project
• Detailed agendas for any proposed workshops,
  conferences, or other events.

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• Questions
• and
• Sample Proposals