The ceremony will take place on April 20 at the United States embassy, 142 Old Hope Road in St Andrew.

Discretionary grants and donor-direct grant awards of more than J$26 million will be presented to Alpha Boys’ School, Breds Youth Leadership Programme, Caribbean American Center of New York, St Elizabeth Schools, Chichibud, Cornwall Regional Hospital, CUMI, Do Good Jamaica, Dudley Grant Foundation, Hampton Old Girls, Friends of Hopewell School, Hanover Charities, Jamaica Epilepsy Foundation, JASY, Maxfield Park Children’s Home, PALS, Promise Learning, Race Course Primary, Rose Town Foundation, Project Sprout, Sickle Cell Trust, SOS Children’s Village, St Mary’s Preparatory, Teach Caribbean, Tennis Jamaica, The Animal House, Waterhouse Community Benevolent Society, YUTE and four University of the West Indies bursaries of scholarships from the Cobb Family Foundation, Ambassador J.