Assistance program
Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges
$945.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Educational and Cultural, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 19.415
- What it does
- Citizen Exchange activities include American Film Showcase, American Music Abroad, Arts Envoy, Center Stage, Community Engagement Exchange, Community Solutions, Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, Fortune - Mentoring Program, Future Leaders Exchange Program, Global Media Makers, Global Sports Mentoring Program, International Sports Programming Initiative, International Writers Program, Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program, Leaders On-Demand, National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Next Level Hip Hop and Conflict Transformation, OneBeat, Professional Fellows Program, Sports Envoy Program and Sports Visitor Program, Stevens initiative, TechGirls, TechWomen, Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, Youth Leadership Programs, and other Professional and Cultural Exchange programs.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries include recipient organizations, educational institutions, other non-government organizations (NGOs) that meet the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3), as well as sponsored participants, and the American people and the people of participating countries who interact with the international participants.
- Who applies
- Pursuant to the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended (Fulbright-Hays Act) the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State awards grants and cooperative agreements to educational and cultural public or private nonprofit foundations or institutions. Applications may be submitted by public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3). Organizations must have nonprofit status with the IRS at the time of application. Please refer to the Grants.gov or the U.S. Department of State's MyGrants (formerly SAMS Domestic) announcement for further eligibility criteria.
- Authorized by
- The Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, as amended.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$945.8M
100%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments