1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
The U.S. Mission to ASEAN (USASEAN) Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) announces an open competition for applications to develop, organize, and oversee the U.S.-ASEAN Road to 50: Rising Leaders Forum. This one-day Jakarta workshop will gather approximately 50 rising leaders selected exclusively from the USASEAN alumni networks across Southeast Asia.
Celebrating 50 years of partnership, this forum looks ahead to the next 50 years: building an independent, self-sustaining alumni network that collaborates to address regional challenges and advance shared goals.
Participants will design joint action plans aligned with U.S. priorities, including strengthening the U.S.-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), ASEAN centrality, AI, digital economy, energy security, critical minerals, resilient supply chains, maritime security, and entrepreneurship.
Through expert panels, strategy sessions, and a joint social media campaign, alumni will turn shared policy goals into practical, cross-border initiatives that mark the U.S.-ASEAN relationships successes over the past 50 years and prepare for even more triumphs over the next 50. Please follow all instructions below. Read the full NOFO here: https://asean.
usmission. gov/nofo-u-s-asean-road-to-50-rising-leaders-forum/ Funding Opportunity Number: PDS-USASEAN-FY26-01. Assistance Listing: 19.
022. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: BC,CD,ED,O,RD,ST.
Award Amount: $60K – $85K per award.
Get alerted about grants like this
Get emailed when new opportunities from “U.S. Mission to ASEAN” or related funders appear. Free, weekly, unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification). ● Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations ● Public and private educational institutions ● Individuals ● Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $60K – $85K per award. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for U.S.-ASEAN Road to 50: Rising Leaders Forum are due August 30, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Yes — U.S.-ASEAN Road to 50: Rising Leaders Forum is offered by U.S. Mission to ASEAN and this listing comes from Grants.gov, an official U.S. federal source. Federal applications generally require registrations (for example SAM.gov or an agency submission portal), so allow extra lead time.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
Past winners and funding trends for this program
The Public Diplomacy Sections (PDS) of the U.S. Mission to ASEAN and U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh announce an open competition for applications to develop, organize, and oversee the Young Southeast Asian Leader Initiative (YSEALI) ScamShield Regional Workshop in Cambodia. Following the success of the YSEALI CyberSafe workshop in January 2026, this next workshop on countering online scams will reveal how criminal scam groups use illicit financial flows as they victimize Americans and Southeast Asians, and it will teach young leaders to detect, disrupt, and dismantle criminal financial networks. The workshop will gather approximately 60 YSEALI exchange alumni and up to 11 YSEALI CyberSafe alumni mentors from all 11 ASEAN countries for four days of expert panel discussions, site visits, and workshops where they will design action plans for detecting, disrupting, and dismantling the financial flows of scam groups in Southeast Asia. Participants will deploy the skills and network they develop at the workshop, working together across borders to counter criminal scam groups, disrupt illicit financial flows, and help protect the people of Southeast Asia and America. Please follow all instructions below.More details are on the U.S. Mission to ASEAN website. Funding Opportunity Number: FY26-PDS-USASEAN-02. Assistance Listing: 19.452. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: O. Award Amount: $200K – $300K per award.
NOFO: U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI, titled YSEALI WLA: InnovatHER is sponsored by U.S. Mission to ASEAN, U.S. Department of State. This cooperative agreement aims to develop and implement the 2025 U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI, focusing on women in the tech industry in Southeast Asia. It seeks to create a network of Southeast Asian women advancing in technology, explore how technology can improve women's daily lives, discuss policies affecting women's access to the digital economy, and develop leadership skills.
On July 22, 2026 the White House committed more than $5 billion to expand the Genesis Mission — the government-wide 'AI for science' effort — announcing 278 first projects and 14 National Science and Technology Challenges spanning health, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, and national security. More than 15 federal agencies are contributing awards, datasets, and facilities. Here is how the pieces fit, why it reorganizes the science-funding map, and how to position for the awards flowing out of it.
Read articleNSF just put $83 million into six national-scale data systems through its Integrated Data Systems and Services program — the plumbing that makes AI-for-science actually work. Here is who won, how the three-category structure (national-scale, transition, planning) really functions, why the Category III planning grant is the on-ramp most teams should be aiming at, and how to build readiness before the next fourth-Tuesday-in-July deadline.
Read articleThe Department of Energy attached its small-business program to the Genesis Mission on July 22, 2026 — opening a $10 million Phase I opportunity across four AI-for-science topic areas closing September 10, plus roughly $147 million in Phase II funding for prior awardees. Here is what the four topics fund, how the redesigned 'faster, simpler' program changes the math for founders, and how to move on a tight window.
Read article