2020 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative YSEALI Women’s Leadership Academy | SUSMAS19CA0003

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The 2020 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Women's Leadership Academy funding opportunity is a U.S. government competitive grant aimed at supporting the design and delivery of a week-long leadership academy focused on women leaders from Southeast Asia. The program is sponsored through the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the U.S. government expects to be more actively involved in shaping or overseeing the project compared to a standard grant, often through collaboration on planning, implementation, and monitoring.

The core purpose of the award is to select an organization to develop and implement the YSEALI Women's Leadership Academy, a short, intensive program intended to strengthen leadership skills and networks among emerging women leaders in the ASEAN region. While the summary provided does not list the full curriculum requirements, the title and framing indicate the academy should center on leadership development for women, likely combining training sessions, practical workshops, peer exchange, mentoring, and opportunities to build regional connections aligned with YSEALI's broader mission of civic engagement, education, entrepreneurship, and regional cooperation. The notice also signals openness to applications from social enterprises, suggesting the funder is interested in implementers that combine mission-driven programming with sustainable or market-informed approaches.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity (meaning it is competitively awarded rather than formula-based), categorized across several activity areas: Business and Commerce, Community Development, Education, and Regional Development. The listing includes CFDA number 19.040, indicating the federal assistance program under which the funding is administered. The posted award ceiling is $150,000, setting the maximum anticipated amount for a single award under this notice. The opportunity anticipates at least one award (the listing shows "ExpectedAwards:" but does not provide a number), and it is explicitly dependent on the availability of fiscal year 2019 funds, meaning the government reserved the right to make an award only if funding is ultimately released.

Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations, including both U.S. nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, as long as they are not institutions of higher education. In practice, this means universities are excluded as direct applicants under this specific competition, while nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofit entities are the primary eligible implementers. The funding opportunity number is SUSMAS19CA0003, and the original application deadline was August 30, 2019. The opportunity was created (posted) on July 2, 2019. Applicants were directed to consult the full Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) via the link in the original posting for complete program requirements, deliverables, evaluation criteria, budget rules, and compliance expectations.

• The Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the business and commerce, community development, education, regional development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "2020 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative YSEALI Women’s Leadership Academy" 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 2019-07-02.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-08-30. (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 $150,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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