The Center for Global Partnership

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), tasked with promoting these partnerships, has fortunately been able to maintain a stable and steady fiscal position thus far and will continue to operate on this sound basis for the foreseeable future.

In this light, CGP would like to address these urgent needs by calling for proposals to create new networks amongst knowledgeable practitioners to openly discuss the broad spectrum of these critical global concerns. Proposed projects may take the form of a conference, a workshop, a series of brainstorming sessions, the dissemination phase of a relevant publication, or even small scale research which may include a study trip to Japan; however, all must commence by March 31, 2009 and may last up to 12-months in duration.

Criteria for Projects:

(1) fall within target areas listed in the CGP Grant Program Guidelines (2008.12) including but not limited to global economic issues

(2) topically demonstrate a strong

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collaborative approach as a foundation

(3) commence before 31 March, 2009, and may last up to 12-months in duration

(4) capped at US $10,000

Eligibility:

U.S. organizations with 501(c)3 status

Application Process:

Submission of preliminary concept papers of 2-3 pages is on a rolling basis, but no later than Friday, 27 February 2009. CGP especially welcomes applicants to consider using the funds as seed money to prepare a larger and more robust, long-term project for submission to CGP’s open competition which takes place on 1 December annually.