Which activities are not eligible for TMU support? 

Although TMU supports institutional activities that foster the exchange of individuals as participants in projects, we do not make grants directly to individuals or, as a general rule, to organizations for activities in which only a single participant is involved.  TMU does not usually make multi-year commitments or, except in special circumstances, support interregional travel or travel by project participants in their home countries.  TMU also does not provide retroactive funding for project expenses already incurred.

In addition, TMU does not support:

• One-person exhibitions of work by living artists
• Solo performance tours
• Fellowships for individual research or academic study
• Youth programs
• Institutional operating expenses
• Capital campaigns
• Construction costs
• Salaries, honoraria, or fees
• Undergraduate or graduate student exchanges
• Performing or visual arts competitions
• Literature or publication projects
• Library acquisitions or equipment purchases
• Film production, media training, or mass communications programs
• Activities pertaining primarily to arms control or security issues
• Projects concentrating on economic development, medicine, public health, or agriculture