Grants at the College of the Marshall Islands

AHEC (Area Health Education Center)

$110,000.00; 9/1/2022-8/31/2023

The AHEC Guam/Micronesia Program works collaboratively with a network of partners in local communities, the region and other resources to address health care in underserved communities through increasing the number, diversity, and practice skills of the health workforce.

Pacific Sustainability Readers

$1,050,000.00; 9/1/2022-6/30/2025

The goal of this project is to allow our teachers, parents, and caretakers to facilitate their students’ and children’s acquisition of Marshallese language literacy, English language literacy, numeracy, and the fundamentals of humanities, social studies, and STEM, while also introducing crucial issues and challenges that pervade life in the Marshall Islands and the wider Pacific region.

NTIA Broadband Access for Remote Learning Opportunities & Training Program

$1,794,628.00; 10/15/2022-10/14/2024

CMI is one of five Minority Serving Institution awarded funds from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).  The primary goal of the project is to ensure all eligible CMI students and distant learning centers have access to broadband internet access to contribute to the improvement of standard of living by providing higher education to remote communities.

CARES Act (Emergency Financial Aid Grants for Students)

$5,206,752.00; 5/12/2020-6/30/2023

CARES Act (Institution Portion)

$6,967,290.00; 5/11/2020-6/30/2023

CARES Act (Emergency Relief Fund for Minority Serving Institutions)

$3,131,482.00; 6/2/2020-6/30/2023

The Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020.  This bill provides direct economic aid to higher education institutions negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The funds are to help prepare, respond, and prevent any learning disruption.

UB (Upward Bound) Student Support Services

$1,359,460.00; 9/1/2022-8/31/2027

The program is designed to meet the needs of an under-served, disadvantaged population in the RMI, providing services and support to participants in their preparation to post-secondary education.

Land Grant Program

$539,563.00; 9/1/2022-10/31/2023

The Land Grant Program is one of CMI’s longer-standing, regional partnerships to promote and support economic development.  The focus lies on agricultural and aquacultural research relevant to the unique atoll environment of the Marshall Islands. 

Planning for a Business Incubator at the College of the Marshall Islands

$30,000.00; 8/1/2021-7/31/2024

Food security has always been a cultural concern to our vulnerable small atoll communities.  Planning for a Business Incubator Café that provides CMI’s students with a better understanding of their traditional culture, natural resources, health and wellness and fusing these into culinary arts and entrepreneurship will begin to promote sustainable lifestyles and ultimately reduce incidences of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other chronic conditions which are prevalent in the Marshall Islands because knowledge skills will be infused back into society.  The Café, where all the workers will be student employees enrolled in Agriculture Entrepreneurship courses at the CMI, will provide opportunities to add value to the production of local food and crops that can grow well on campus and in the local communities, provides the promise of sustainable livelihoods and encourages self-reliance.

Due to border closures, progress on implementation of the grant was delayed and a no-cost extension was granted.  The planned activities will take place in 2023. 

Agricultural Education for Health and Sustainable Livelihoods

$149,292.00; 8/1/2021-7/31/2023

The goal of this project is to create a more climate-resilient, self-reliant, healthy and entrepreneurial population through a new college course.  At the end of this project, CMI will have developed and tested eleven new on-line courses under a new Associate of Science Degree in Agroforest Education for Health and Sustainable Livelihoods. (AS AE-HSL) The program is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agricultural Education for Health and Sustainable Livelihoods Grant Award.

College of the Marshall Islands Greenhouse Soilless System

$165,330.00; 9/15/2022-9/14/2026

The overall goal of this project is to build Greenhouse Soilless (Hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic) infrastructure at the College for students’ experiential learning that is necessary to support the new associate degree program and to educate and produce future food professionals able to solve food production issues in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The infrastructure that will be built will assist in implementing the AE-HSL program. The project also provides for a similar infrastructure at the Arrak Campus of the College that will be used to provide valuable experiences and learning opportunities on soilless farming to the farmers and community members through the sharing of information at farm demonstrations, workshops, and dissemination of research findings. The specific objective is to acquire four greenhouse facilities (two small sized ones at Uliga, and one large and one small sized at Arrak), 24 hydroponic systems, eight aeroponics systems, and an aquaponic system for experiential learning, teaching and research into the appropriate greenhouse soilless technology.

Advanced Technological Education

$51,250.00; 5/1/2022-4/31/2023

The NSF funded program is designed to improve STEM education at the undergraduate and secondary school levels through minority-serving community colleges of the Pacific.  Student benefits have come from internships and from improved curriculum supported by the faculty development activities. 

IOA-LSAMP (Islands of Opportunity Alliance- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participants)

$110,000.00; 9/1/2018-8/31/2023

The IOA-LSAMP program works to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students graduating with two- and four-year degrees in STEM disciplines. 

R2R (Reimaanlok-Ridge to Reef)

$69,994.80; 4/1/2022-12/31/2022

The Reimaanlok- Looking into the Future:  Strengthening natural resource management in the Republic of the Marshall Islands employing integrated approaches (RMI R2R) project aims to sustain atoll biodiversity and livelihoods by building community and ecosystem resilience to threats and degrading influences through integrated management of terrestrial and coastal resources in priority atolls/islands.  As an implementing partner, CMI will support capacity building on integrated approaches for conservation and livelihoods benefiting key national government agencies, community leaders and residents in all 24 neighboring islands; participation by key project stakeholders in regional training programs conducted by the Pacific R2R program support project. 

IQBE (Improving Quality of Basic Education)

$224,599.11; 9/1/2022-8/31/2023

To support critical changes to learning and teaching, the grant project will support teacher training, bilingual learning resources, increase community engagements to improve learning outcomes, and to strengthen literacy and numeracy standards of students.

Demonstrating Innovative Employment Solutions through Regional Knowledge- Sharing Partnerships with Youth Organizations

$58,405.00; 4/8/2022-12/15/2022

Catalyzing Youth-Led Climate Action in Atoll Nations aims to increase capacity of youth and community to participate in meaningful youth engagement in climate action in atoll nations and Small Islands Developing States and support youth-led climate change adaptation and mitigation innovations.  It will particularly focus on vulnerable youth groups including those with limited access to internet or data in high climate and disaster risk areas, women, rural, poor, and unemployed young people. 

Teacher Retention Project

$397,419.00; 8/1/2021-9/31/2026

The purpose of the project is to develop a comprehensive retention plan for special education teachers in the RMI Public School System.  The project goals are to

1. Collaboratively create a comprehensive retention plan for special educators,
2. Collectively with partners and stakeholders develop meaningful pathways for professional development that will lead to special education licensure
3. Effectively implement and evaluate the plan
4. And annual recruit more teachers and coaches to improve special education throughout the RMI.