Opportunity Information: Apply for PAS UKRAINE 2020 003
The U.S. Mission to Ukraine is offering a discretionary public diplomacy small grants opportunity focused on culture and youth projects in Ukraine. The program supports activities that use culture, arts, and innovative creative industries to strengthen U.S.-Ukraine connections, elevate shared values, and build resilient communities. Proposed projects are expected to clearly promote U.S. culture in Ukraine or showcase meaningful American-Ukrainian collaboration within the chosen topic area. The grant is issued under CFDA 19.040, with an award ceiling of up to $50,000. The opportunity was posted under Funding Opportunity Number PAS UKRAINE 2020 003, with an original closing date of July 5, 2020.
Eligibility is limited to Ukrainian and U.S. registered non-profit, non-governmental organizations. Organizations from third countries, as well as individuals, are not eligible to apply. A key feature of this opportunity is its emphasis on partnership: proposals that include American experts, artists, or other U.S. participants are strongly encouraged, and projects that are collaborative and sustained over time tend to align best with the program intent. The opportunity also favors projects that include educational components (such as workshops, trainings, mentorship, curriculum-based programs, or skill-building series) and those that reach less frequently engaged regions of Ukraine, rather than concentrating activities only in the most commonly served major hubs.
The program is intentionally broad in the types of cultural and youth-focused activities it will consider, as long as they fit public diplomacy goals and connect to U.S.-Ukraine cooperation. Eligible themes include performing and visual arts across many genres and formats, such as music, dance, fashion, theater, literature, film, photography, and video. It also includes fine arts and public-facing exhibitions, ranging from paintings, sculpture, and photography to artifacts, cartoons, murals, graffiti, and similar works. Beyond traditional arts programming, the grant welcomes innovative, cross-disciplinary projects in areas like culinary arts, sports (both team and individual, traditional or extreme), urban planning and placemaking, video game and board game design, virtual reality, and other emerging or hybrid creative fields. This flexibility is meant to encourage modern, youth-relevant approaches that can engage new audiences and spark longer-term collaboration.
Funding priorities focus heavily on inclusion, community resilience, and civic engagement. The program prioritizes projects that empower women, youth, and marginalized groups, including veterans, people with disabilities, and internally displaced persons. A specific priority is advancing the rights of persons with disabilities, which can include improving accessibility in cultural spaces, expanding representation, or building leadership and participation pathways for people with disabilities in arts and community life. The opportunity also highlights documenting national memory and identity, supporting initiatives that responsibly preserve stories, heritage, and lived experiences, particularly where cultural expression intersects with community healing and social cohesion. Additionally, the program favors projects that help integrate marginalized groups into communities, reduce barriers to participation, and strengthen cohesion and tolerance across lines such as religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, and gender.
The grant is also designed to reinforce civil society and forward-looking economic creativity. Applicants are encouraged to propose activities that support Ukrainian civil society through community-based cultural engagement and public dialogue, and that promote innovation and entrepreneurship, especially in the technology sector. In practice, that can look like creative tech workshops, maker or design programs, arts-and-tech collaborations, or mentorship pipelines connecting Ukrainian innovators with U.S. counterparts. Across all of these areas, a consistent expectation is that the public diplomacy purpose remains clear: projects should deepen cultural ties between Ukraine and the United States and make the U.S. connection visible through content, partnerships, co-creation, expert involvement, or joint public-facing outputs.
Administrative requirements are also explicitly stated. Any organization seeking U.S. federal assistance must have a Dun and Bradstreet Number (DUNS) prior to submitting an application. Before an award can be made, the organization must also have a CCR (NCAGE) number and maintain an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov). The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine provides guidance on these required registrations and the application process through its grants and programs page at https://ua.usembassy.gov/education-culture/current-programs-grants/.Apply for PAS UKRAINE 2020 003
- The U.S. Mission to Ukraine in the arts, humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ukraine: U.S. Government Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program – Culture and Youth Projects" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.040.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2019-11-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-07-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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