Fostering the Future Together: Empowering Youth for a Safe Digital World
Cooperative agreements will fund organizations to help empower youth for a safe digital world, with broad eligibility including educational institutions.
⚑ Forecast notice only; FOA under development and may change before release. · Cooperative agreement instrument. · Foreign/public international organizations and faith-based organizations are explicitly eligible. · Award ceiling is $3,000,000.
This is a youth digital safety/training and cybersecurity opportunity in an international labor context, which is far outside IPPRA’s core lines in public risk perception, weather/emergency communication, energy/nuclear attitudes, and education policy evaluation. The team could at most be tangentially relevant on survey or evaluation methods, but not as a natural PI fit.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-08-13
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 54 partial | education policy/evaluation (core line, primary); signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds training education, not research (capped); capped at 54 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 50 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
Questions regarding this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Forecast may be emailed to OGM_ILAB@dol.gov; however, please note there is limited information that may be shared with the public, as this FOA is currently under development. We encourage prospective applicants and interested parties to use the Grants.gov subscription option to register for future updates provided for this particular FOA.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants include any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organizations, including any faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, or public international organizations (PIOs). Faith-based organizations are encouraged to apply, as are all organizations. Those that meet the eligibility requirements may receive awards under this funding opportunity. DOL will not, in the selection of recipients and administration of the grant, discriminate on the basis of an organization's religious character, affiliation, exercise, or lack thereof, or on the basis of conduct that would not be considered grounds to favor or disfavor a similarly situated secular organization.
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