American Schools and Hospitals Abroad

USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program provides assistance to schools, libraries, and medical centers outside the United States to serve as study and demonstration centers for American ideals and practices. ASHA’s grants help these institutions demonstrate to people overseas the achievements of the United States in education, training, research and medicine, while creating a foundation for development by training future leaders in a wide variety of disciplines.

ASHA organizations effectively:

• Provide the benefits of American ideals and practices in education and health
• Serve as demonstration and study centers of those ideas and practices
• Foster interchange, mutual understanding, and favorable relations with the United States.

Since the inception of the program, ASHA has assisted more than 250 institutions in over 70 countries. ASHA currently manages a worldwide portfolio of over 100 competitively awarded grants and continues to award 35 to 40 new grants each year to libraries, schools and medical centers in Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin American and the Caribbean and the Middle East.

ASHA grants are awarded to assist in capital improvements such as building or renovating facilities and the procurement of scientific, medical and educational equipment. The overseas institutions are encouraged to fund a portion of their operating expenses from tuition, fees, private contributions and earnings from endowments.

Attention Potential Grant Applicants

The Solicitation for Applications for FY 2013 funding is now available.  Applications must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on April 15, 2013.  NOTE: In order to be able to apply for ASHA funding, you must first register with Grants.gov and the Central Contractor Registration (www.sam.gov) as well as have a DUNS Number.  Information is available on http://www.grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp

ASHA 2013 Conference Registration

The USAID American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program is proud to announce our 2013 ASHA Annual Conference and Workshop.  The conference is April 29 - May 1, 2013 (Monday - Wednesday).  This year's Annual Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.  

Click here to register.

Questions regarding the Annual Conference can be directed to ashaconference2013@usaid.gov or 202-712-0510.

Contact Info:

Acting Director: Ms. Kerrin Goodspeed, KGoodspeed@usaid.gov

Senior Program Advisor: Gary Barrett, GBarrett@usaid.gov

Africa and Middle East Programs: Ms. Mary Herbert, MHerbert@usaid.gov

Asia, Europe & Eurasia, and Latin America and the Caribbean Programs:  Roy Jones, rojones@usaid.gov