Mayor Vincent Gray with OAA Director Ngozi Nmezi, top right. (Photo: Matt Andrea/Tadias Magazine)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014
Washington, D.C. (TADIAS) – For fiscal year 2015 the DC Mayor’s Office on African Affairs (OAA) will be awarding 8 grants up to $25,000 for organizations based in the District and involved in economic and workforce development, health and human services, youth engagement and education, promotion of arts, culture and the humanities.
“The grant is intended to fund programs that provide targeted services and resources to the District’s African residents and/or business owners in areas of need in the community,” OAA’s announced. “For FY15, OAA’s African Community Grant will fund culturally and linguistically appropriate programs with demonstrated tie in to the Mayor’s priority areas and community needs.”
In an interview with Tadias Magazine last month the Director of the DC Mayor’s Office on African Affairs, Ngozi Nmezi, noted that Washington D.C. is home to immigrants from over 50 African countries. Ngozi also pointed out that four out of ten foreign-born Africans in DC are from Ethiopia. “In fact, the Ethiopian community makes up 39% of the foreign-born African community here in District of Columbia,” Ngozi stated. “That’s followed by Nigeria (16%), Cameroon, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Morocco, and Ghana.”
In order to qualify for the African Community Grant organizations seeking to apply must have a 501(c)(3) status, serve the District’s African residents or business owners and be located in the District of Columbia.
Requests for Applications (RFA) will be posted on September 19th at OAA’s website and on the District’s Grant Clearinghouse website.
Grant Orientation is scheduled for October 7th, 2014 (10am – 12pm) at the Franklin D. Reeves Center of Municipal Affairs (2000 14th Street, NW 2nd Floor, Edna Cromwell Community Room Washington, DC 20009).
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You can learn more about the FY15 African Community Grant at www.oaa.dc.gov.
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