USA: Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York City; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington, DC; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming
International country outside of the USA, Israel and Canada.
Grants to USA and Japan nonprofit organizations for educational projects that enable K-12 youth to learn about each other’s culture, country, and society. Applicants must submit a letter of inquiry prior to submitting a full application. Funding is intended to support projects at the pre-college education level that work directly with students, develop top-quality curriculum materials on America or Japan for educational audiences in the other country, connect schools and classrooms in the US and Japan, and develop and improve instruction in Japanese language.
The United States-Japan Foundation supports innovative education projects that help young Americans and Japanese learn about each other’s society, culture, and country as well as learn to work together on issues of common concern. The Foundation focuses on K-12 education and throughout its history has been at the forefront of supporting teacher professional development projects that train US teachers to teach about Japan and Japanese teachers to teach about the United States.
The Foundation seeks to respond to needs at the pre-college level as identified by experts in US-Japan education and practitioners in the field. The Foundation is open to diverse methodologies for engaging teachers and students in the study of Japan and the United States that range from history, art, and music to science and society. The Foundation also proactively leads efforts to develop educational programs and projects when a significant need is discerned.
USJF seeks to support programs that:
Proposed projects should seek to incorporate one or more of these elements in a way that is particularly suited to the need(s) in pre-college education they seek to address. However, the above guidelines should not be seen as a deterrent to innovative new proposals and concepts.
Proposals can indicate an interest in multi-year funding, but should focus on one year at a time. Approved projects that initially indicated an interest in multi-year support would need to submit renewal proposals for future support.
Apply: https://us-jf.submittable.com/submit
While most questions about the status of your application can be answered by referencing your Submittable©portfolio, please feel free to direct inquiries to programs@us-jf.org.
Non-profit organizations located in the United States should contact the Program Department in the New York Office at programs@us-jf.org.
Non-profit organizations located in Japan should contact Mr. Tomoyuki Watanabe, Japan Representative, in the Foundation’s Tokyo office.
United States-Japan Foundation
145 East 32nd Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 481-8753
Tokyo Office
Reinanzaka Building 1F
1-14-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0052
Tel: (03) 3586-0541
japan@us-jf.org