The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that develop and strengthen connections between religious minority groups and local civil society groups who organize based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability, and other minority groups to address barriers to religious freedom and human rights.

This project will empower religious minorities and other minority groups to work together and to create alliances with supportive religious leaders and government officials. It will focus on efforts to promote tolerance and the meaningful inclusion of religious minorities and other minority groups.

Objectives

The project will focus on two objectives:

• To increase awareness of shared challenges and build capacity to coordinate efforts to mitigate intolerance and human rights abuse against minority religious communities and other minority groups, and,
• To engage supportive religious leaders in interfaith and interfaith actions and government officials to reduce intolerance and human rights abuse against minority religious communities and other minority groups.

Funding Information

• Funding Floor (lowest $$ value): $1,000,000
• Funding Ceiling (highest $$ value): $1,000,000
• Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
• Type of Award: Grant
• Period of Performance: 24-48 months
• Anticipated Time to Award: 2-8 months

Eligible Applicants

• DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses. DRL’s preference is to work with non-profit entities; however, there may be some occasions when a for-profit entity is best suited.
• Applications submitted by for-profit entities may be subject to additional review following the panel selection process. Additionally, the Department of State prohibits profit to for-profit or commercial organizations under its assistance awards. Profit is defined as any amount in excess of allowable direct and indirect costs. The allow ability of costs incurred by commercial organizations is determined in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR 30, Cost Accounting Standards Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.