The U.S. Department of State, the binational Fulbright Commissions, and AMIDEAST are interested in your professional and personal accomplishments since your Fulbright experience. Staying connected to fellow alumni is also a great way to build upon your Fulbright experience and expand your personal and professional network. There are many ways for you to connect with other alumni and expand your personal and professional networks.

Update your Contact Information

Please take a moment to update your contact information and share any success stories of how your Fulbright grant has enhanced you personally and professionally.

State Alumni Website

STATE ALUMNI is the official website for more than 1,000,000 alumni of exchange programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Interactive, dynamic and password-protected, alumni.state.gov offers alumni from U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs a place to:

• Network with alumni from Fulbright, IVLP, and other programs
• Participate in the Fulbright Community
• Register for a FulbrightMail.org email account
• Find grant and funding opportunities worth more than $33 billion
• Access more than 20,000 free periodicals, newspapers, and more
• Participate in Q&A Live discussions with experts
• Share your experience with a global audience
• Read alumni success stories, perspectives, and ideas
• Stay involved through a local alumni association

All alumni are invited to register for the site by clicking “Join Now” at https://alumni.state.gov

All members are verified as alumni of a U.S. government-sponsored exchange program before receiving full access.

Alumni Newsletter

Twice annually, AMIDEAST/Washington, D.C. publishes a Fulbright Alumni Newsletter called Fulbright Focus. Please click here for the latest and previous issues of the Fulbright Focus Newsletter.

Keep in touch with us so we can highlight your most recent and greatest achievements in the Fulbright Focus.  

Alumni Development Grants

AMIDEAST, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, administers the Fulbright Alumni Development Grant program as part of an effort to support the professional development of Fulbright Foreign Student Program alumni from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This program provides Fulbright Foreign Student Program alumni the opportunity to attend a professional conference or seminar, complete a short-term training program, conduct a collaborative research project, or participate in a professional visit with colleagues in their field.

Some examples of previous Alumni Development Grant activities include:

• Attending a specialty conference of the American Water Resources Association on Adaptive Resource Management in Montana
• Completing a short-term training course in Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates
• Conducting a workshop on "Using the Internet as an Instructional Tool to Increase Effectiveness of an Educational Delivery System" at the EFL Skills Conference in Cairo, Egypt
• Participating in the 8th Annual Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts
• Visits to an American research institute or company to identify possible collaborative research on electrical industry restructuring

For more information about Alumni Development Grants, including eligibility requirements, click here.

AMIDEAST is grateful to the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for its sponsorship of Fulbright alumni activities.