Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2023

AEIF provides alumni of U.S. sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community. Since its inception in 2011, AEIF has funded over 500 alumni-led projects around the world through a competitive global competition. This year, AEIF 2023 will support United States’ commitment to the strategic partnership between Indonesia and the United States through educational, cultural, informational, and media programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation.

The U.S. Mission to Indonesia will accept public service projects proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni that support the following themes:

• Economic development

• Environment sustainability

• Protection of human rights

• Public health improvement

• Strengthening the role of the public in peace, security, and governance

• Preventing terrorism and countering radicalization and recruitment

Activities that are not typically allowed include, but are not limited to:

• Programs relating to partisan political activity;

• Construction programs;

• Programs that support specific religious activities;

• Fund-raising campaigns;

• Scientific research;

• Citizen exchange programs with foreign countries that do not have an American

angle;

• Projects that include international travel;

• Projects to create or develop web-based applications or any type of publication

• Applicants must be alumni of a U.S. government-funded exchange program (https://alumni.state.gov/list-exchange-programs) or a U.S. government-sponsored exchange program (https://j1visa.state.gov/).• Projects teams must include teams of at least two (2) alumni.• Alumni who are U.S. citizens may not submit proposals, but U.S. citizen alumni may participate as team members in a project.• Alumni teams may be comprised of alumni from different exchange programs and different countries.• Applications must be submitted by exchange alumni. Not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, and academic institutions are not eligible to apply in the name of the organization but can serve as partners for implementing project activities.