OpportunityTitle: Grant Competition for the Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program CFDA 84.304A
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 1. Eligible Applicants: Organizations in the United States experienced in the development of curricula and programs in civics and government education, or economic education for students in elementary schools and secondary schools in countries other than the United States.      2. Eligible Country: For the purpose of this grant competition, the term eligible country means a Central European country, an Eastern European country, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the independent states of the former Soviet Union as defined in section 3 of the FREEDOM Support Act (22 U.S.C. 5801), the Republic of Ireland, the province of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, and any developing country (as such term is defined in section 209(d) of the Education for the Deaf Act (20 U.S.C. 4359a(d)) if the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, determines that such developing country has a democratic form of government. (See 20 U.S.C. 6715(g)).      A list of the countries is included in the application package.      3. Cost Sharing or Matching: This program does not require cost sharing or matching.      4. Other: Primary participants in the cooperative education exchange programs assisted through this grant shall be educational leaders in the areas of civic and government education, and economic education, including teachers, curriculum and teacher training specialists, scholars in relevant disciplines, educational policymakers, and government and private sector leaders from the United States and eligible countries. (See 20 U.S.C. 6715(d)).
Description: Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. Purpose of Program: The Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program provides grants to improve the quality of civic education and economic education through cooperative civic and economic education exchange programs with emerging democracies.Note: This competition invites applications that address civic education or economic education. We estimate that one award will be made to an application addressing the absolute priority for civic education and one award will be made to an application that addresses the absolute priority for economic education.Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.304A.If you choose to submit your application to us electronically, you must use e-Application, accessible through the Department&apos;s e-Grants Web site at: http://e-grants.ed.gov. While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database. You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: e-Mail: Program Manager
GrantorContactText: Julius Cotton &lt;br/&gt;ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-245-6140 &lt;br/&gt;julius.cotton@ed.gov &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager: &lt;br/&gt;Rita Foy Moss &lt;br/&gt;U.S. Department of Education &lt;br/&gt;400 Maryland Avenue, SW. &lt;br/&gt;Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), room 10006 &lt;br/&gt;Washington, DC 20202 &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: (202) 245-7866, FAX: (202) 485-0013 or by e-mail:
CloseDateExplanation: Applications Available: January 20, 2010.  On January 20, 2010, we published in the Federal Register (75 FR 3212) a notice inviting applications for FY 2010 for the Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program. The notice stated that a list of eligible countries was included in the application package (75 FR 3214). The list of eligible countries included in the application package at the time the notice inviting applications for FY 2010 was published was the list that was used in the FY 2009 program grant competition. However, an updated list of eligible countries has since been approved for FY 2010. The new list of eligible countries for FY 2010 is included in an updated application package that has been posted to the following Department of Education Web sites: http://e-Grants.ed.gov and http://www.ed.gov/programs/  coopedexchange/applicant.html. Therefore, in order to give applicants adequate time to access the updated application package, we are changing the deadline for the submission of applications to March 15, 2010. With this change in the deadline date, we are also changing the deadline date for intergovernmental review. The specific changes to be made are as follows:      On page 3213, the first column, the date listed for Deadline for Transmittal of Applications is changed to read &quot;March 15, 2010.&quot; On page 3213, the first column, the date listed for Deadline for Intergovernmental Review is changed to read &quot;May 14, 2010.&quot; On page 3214, third column, the date listed for Deadline for Transmittal of Applications is changed to read &quot;March 15, 2010.&quot; On page 3214, third column, the date listed for Deadline for Intergovernmental Review is changed to read &quot;May 14, 2010.&quot;