Assistance program
ECA U.S. Speaker Program
$25.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Educational and Cultural, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Including Individual Awards)
- CFDA number
- 19.440
- What it does
- As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Office of the U.S. Speaker Program of the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awards a cooperative agreement to an organization with experience in international exchanges for the administration of projects that enable U.S. experts to engage international audiences on topics of strategic importance to the United States. The participating U.S. experts represent a broad range of knowledge and responsible and informed opinion. Experts participate in traveling and/or virtual programs in support of U.S. foreign policy objectives. The grantee organization is to be responsible for handling all administrative aspects of the program, including arrangements for participant travel, visas, funding disbursement, mailing of materials, and speaker evaluation reporting.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
- Authorized by
- The Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, as amended, Public Law 87-256, 22 US Code 2451.
- Program site
- https://eca.state.gov/ ↗
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.
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