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Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2026 Call For Proposals

Award ceiling
$5,000 – $35,000
Closes
May 8, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-24

Awards $5,000 – $35,000 per recipient for individuals, closing May 8, 2026.

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Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2026 Call For Proposals awards $5,000 – $35,000 per recipient, open to individuals, closing May 8, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$35,000
Award floor
$5,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
May 8, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Apr 14, 2026
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Individuals
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community · Expand on skills gained during their exchange experience
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$35,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Individuals
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
demographic
Exchange alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs
Source field: demographics
use
Design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community, Expand on skills gained during their exchange experience
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Teams of at least two alumni

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Not confirmed

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

May 8, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

11:59 PM (Atlantic Standard Time) on May 8, 2026

What can the money be used for?

2 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their communityExpand on skills gained during their exchange experience

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

5 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Sample too small. 5 open records stored under Business & Commerce state an award ceiling, and no figures are shown below 10. Three records do not have a middle, and a median drawn from them would be read as a benchmark.

Common questions

5 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$5,000 – $35,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
May 8, 2026. 11:59 PM (Atlantic Standard Time) on May 8, 2026
Who is eligible to apply?
Individuals. Applicant size limit: Teams of at least two alumni.
What can the funding be used for?
Design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community, Expand on skills gained during their exchange experience, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-24
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-24

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