Freedom Shield: Global Forced Labor Import Prohibition Initiative: eligibility guide
How to read the eligibility, amount and date fields on this record: who the notice names, what the ceiling of $18,000,000 does and does not mean, and which fields are silent.
This is a reading of one record in the catalogue: what its fields say, what they do not say, and which of them decide whether it is worth your time. The record itself, with its source link and the date we last confirmed it, is at Freedom Shield: Global Forced Labor Import Prohibition Initiative.
Who the notice says may apply
The notice names 1 applicant value, which folds into Other. The stored values are the grantmaker's own words; the fold into nine classes is ours, and a source category with no honest home in it stays unmapped rather than being forced into the nearest one.
Subject area, in the source's categories: Other.
Clearing every one of those is necessary and not sufficient. Eligibility screening is mechanical and happens before review, and a requirement stated in prose that no field captured will still remove an application. The notice is the document that governs.
Reading the money
- Award ceiling (per project): $18,000,000
- Award floor: $7,000,000
- Programme pool (total): $18,000,000
The pool is close to the ceiling here. They are separate columns and neither is derived from the other: the program pool is what the programme holds across every award, the award ceiling is the most one applicant can receive.
Dates, and the one that is not on the page
Deadline: 2026-09-21, recorded as a fixed deadline. A date is not a deadline — where a source published only a date, no hour was invented to fill the timestamp.
What is not here is the period of performance. The date fields on a record describe when you may apply, never when the funded work must happen, and we do not derive the second from the first.
How the money would reach you
This record is not marked reimbursement. Treat that as unknown rather than as an advance — the flag currently defaults to "not reimbursement" when a source is silent, which is a data gap we publish rather than hide, and the notice is what settles it.
On matching funds: the notice states no match is required.
Other open opportunities from Bureau of International Labor Affairs
| Opportunity | Deadline | Award ceiling |
|---|---|---|
| Supporting Implementation of the Labor Provisions of Trade Arrangements for American Worker Competitiveness | 2026-09-21 | $18,000,000 |
| Protecting the American Seafood Supply Chain by Countering Unfair Labor Practices and Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing | 2026-09-21 | $11,000,000 |
| Better Tools for Fair Cotton: Traceability Solutions to Protect U.S. Supply Chains from Chinese Forced Labor | Not stated | $6,000,000 |
| Ensuring “Pro-American Worker” Critical Minerals Supply Chain in the Western Hemisphere | 2026-09-21 | $5,000,000 |
| Fostering the Future Together: Empowering Youth for a Safe Digital World | 2026-09-10 | $3,000,000 |
The funder's full profile is at Bureau of International Labor Affairs.
What we cannot tell you
What to write. This is a data product; proposal craft is a different trade and we do not practise it. Nothing on this page is drawn from the application instructions, and the review criteria are argumentative prose we deliberately do not extract — summarising them would turn the funder's standard into our paraphrase of it.
Whether the notice has changed since we read it. Every record carries the date it was last confirmed; an amendment published after that date is a change this page has not seen. The record links the notice, and the notice governs.
How this compares with looking the programme up at its own source. For federal programmes, Grants.gov is free and is the primary source — this page adds a reading, not a listing you cannot get elsewhere.
Sources
- GrantTrove record - https://granttrove.com/grants/363531 - last verified 2026-09-08
- GrantTrove funder profile - https://granttrove.com/funders/bureau-of-international-labor-affairs - 2026-09-08
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In the catalogue
- /grants/363531
- Grants open to other applicant types
- /grants/363212
- /grants/363214
- /grants/363226
- /grants/363215
- /grants/363426
- Funder profile: bureau-of-international-labor-affairs
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