The Congressional Office for International Leadership (COIL) awards grants to a wide range of U.S.-based nonprofit and governmental organizations to host the Open World program. COIL selects its host organizations through a competitive grants process conducted according to federal guidelines. All successful candidates have expertise in implementing professionally oriented international visitor programs. Grantees can either implement the program directly in their community, or serve as national level grantees, working with a network of sub-grantees across the country to implement the program. For questions, please contact Grants Manager Jen Volfson, jvolfson@coil.gov.

COIL publishes its Grant Guidelines annually to solicit proposals for the following year's calendar of programs. The current version of the Grant Guidelines is posted below. Stay tuned to COIL's Newsletter and Press Releases to learn when the next year's solicitation is published. While the annual Grant Guidelines are posted traditionally in late spring or early summer, potential grantees are able to submit grant proposals for a specific program on a rolling basis.

Assurances for Non-Constructive Programs

Certification Regarding Lobbying

• US-Ukraine Foundation (Washington, DC)
• Friendship Force International (Atlanta, GA)
• Rotary International (Evanston, IL)
• International Focus(Raleigh, NC)
• Council of International Programs USA (Chagrin Falls, OH)
• Fort Worth Sister Cities International (Ft. Worth, TX)
• World Trade Center Institute (Baltimore, MD)
• Utah Global Diplomacy (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy (Pensacola, FL)
• GlobalJax (Jacksonville, FL)
• Friends Forever International (Durham, NH)
• World Affairs Council of New Hampshire (Manchester, NH)
• Norfolk Sister City Association (Norfolk, VA)
• Iowa Council for International Understanding (Des Moines, IA)
• World Affairs of Kentucky and So. Indiana (Louisville, KY)
• Citizen Diplomacy Alliance (Tucson, AZ)
• Herbert H. Lehman College Foundation, Inc. (Bronx, NY)
• Global Ties Sacramento (Sacramento, CA)
• Global Ties Detroit (Detroit, MI)
• Fox Valley Technical College (Appleton, WI)
• WorldMontana (Helena, MT)
• Northern Nevada International Center (Reno, NV)
• Global Ties Alabama (Huntsville, AL)
• ICCR (Troy, NY)
• Albuquerque Sister Cities Foundation, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM)
• World Affairs Council (Seattle, WA)
• PTPI-Greater Phoenix Chapter (Tempe, AZ)
• Tulsa Global Alliance, Inc. (Tulsa, OK)
• Kidsave International Inc. (Culver City, CA)
• Vermont Council of World Affairs (Burlington, VT)
• Greater Gainesville International Center (Gainesville, FL)
• Global Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM )
• Center for International Understanding, Inc. (Princeton, WV )
• Global Ties Arkansas (Little Rock, AR) )
• GlobalPittsburg (Pittsburg, PA)
• University of Nebraska Medical Center ( Omaha, NE)