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-based, rookie FIRST Robotics Competition teams with all or at least majority-female membership. DCF expects to award up to five grants across the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 seasons to maximize impact and encourage fundraising.
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Building the Resilience of Women and Girls through Education, Technology and Entrepreneurship AFGHANISTAN. THE REGION. THE WORLD.
Afghan Girls’ Online STEAM Education DCF provides secure, culturally sensitive, and structured online Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education for Afghan girls and young women, including digital literacy, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship training.
Our free, AI-enabled education app, the Afghan Dreamers Academy, draws on over a decade of learning from DCF's in-person and remote education programs to offer a bespoke, one-stop digital learning platform specifically for Afghans. IT & Robotics Centers for Women and GIrls STEAM education is difficult to operationalize without access to technology.
DCF established its first IT Center in Afghanistan in 2012, later expanding to two Innovation Centers and 11 Tech Centers, providing women and young people access to technology and high-quality STEAM training. DCF now supports IT and Robotics Centers for women and girls across the region, as well as Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Rule Breakers, International Exhibitions & Global Advocacy Globally, girls’ education is one of the strongest drivers of economic prosperity and a critical bulwark against child marriage and early childbearing. STEAM education is particularly powerful in unlocking new economic opportunities.
Worldwide, these fields are among the fastest-growing and highest-paying sectors, yet women and girls remain disproportionately concentrated in lower-paying, informal sectors that face increasing pressure from automation and artificial intelligence. Give an Afghan woman the tools to start a business, and you're giving her agency, dignity, and the confidence that she can still shape her own future.
With an initial investment from the Neuberger Berman Foundation, DCF created a financial literacy program to help young Afghan women manage both personal and business finances. Building on this foundation, DCF now pairs training in accounting, market analysis, and entrepreneurship with micro-loans and small grants to help women launch or scale small businesses.
Robotics offers an engaging, hands-on entry point into STEAM, empowering girls with practical skills while building confidence, leadership, and a sense of agency. The Afghan Girls Robotics Team, also known as the Afghan Dreamers, began as a small DCF initiative with just seven students in January 2017.
Despite visa denials, equipment delays, security threats, and political instability, the team soon made international headlines after winning multiple prestigious robotics awards, inspiring the award-winning documentary Afghan Dreamers and the feature film Rule Breakers , available for streaming on most major platforms.
Q&A with Afsana Ahmadi Shirinsukhan Working as an Afghan Dreamer changed my life and opened new doors for me to explore the world. I will always be an Afghan girl who is working for Afghanistan and it’s future.
— Ayda Haydarpour, Former AGRT Team Member The Digital Citizen Fund (DCF) expands women and girls’ access to hands-on education in (STEAM), as well as technology and entrepreneurship training, helping them build resilience and achieve financial independence.
DCF was co-founded in 2013 by entrepreneur Roya Mahboob, whose early experience with a computer in an internet café in Afghanistan sparked her journey into technology and led her to become one of the country’s first female tech CEOs.
Since its founding, DCF has built over a decade of experience delivering high-quality STEAM education, along with digital and financial literacy programs, reaching more than 25,000 girls—primarily in Afghanistan. The Digital Citizen Fund (DCF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Your tax-deductible donation helps women and girls gain access to (STEAM) education, technology, and entrepreneurship skills—helping them achieve financial independence in Afghanistan and beyond. Every gift makes a real impact. DCF is eligible to receive Donor Advised Funds.
Find us using our EIN: 46-274088 Partnership Approach and Principles Q&A with Afsana Ahmadi Shirinsukhan Partnership Approach and Principles Q&A with Afsana Ahmadi Shirinsukhan
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: U. S. -based, rookie FIRST Robotics Competition teams with all or at least majority-female membership. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.