ALCOAST 318/25 - JUL 2025 SOLICITATION FOR 2025 COAST GUARD PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION (PIE) AWARDS

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FM COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC
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ALCOAST 318/25
SSIC 5350
SUBJ: SOLICITATION FOR 2025 COAST GUARD PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION
(PIE) AWARDS
1. The Partnership in Education (PIE) Program partners Coast Guard
(CG) units across the country with schools and other community-based
organizations to enhance the well-being, academic achievements, and
career opportunities of students from kindergarten through college.
2. Command-sponsored, volunteer-driven, and partnership-based, the
PIE Program enables active duty, reserve, auxiliary, and civilian
members of the CG to engage students in a wide range of educational
activities and to serve further as role models and mentors.
3. Each year, six awards are presented to CG units and members to
recognize their outstanding achievements in support of the PIE
Program during the previous school year. Awards are presented to
both large and small units, with large units having 100 or more
personnel and small units having less than 100 personnel.
4. All CG units with active PIE programs are encouraged to submit
nominations for one or more of the following PIE Award categories:
    a. Best Unit Partnership (Two Awards: Large and Small).
Units that worked independently with one or more schools.
    b. Best Collaborative Partnership (Two Awards: Large and Small).
Units that worked with one or more volunteer organizations
(businesses, community-based organizations, or other units) to
support one or more schools.
    c. PIE Coordinator of the Year (One award). A PIE Coordinator
who established, sustained, or expanded high quality education
partnerships.
    d. Sustained Excellence in CG PIE (One award). A unit or
individual (volunteer, coordinator, or leader) with at least
three years of consecutive involvement in PIE programs.
5. Nominations for the awards cited above in subparagraphs (a)
through (c) will cover the period of August 2024 to July 2025.
The Sustained Excellence Award will be evaluated from the timeframe
of August 2022 to July 2025.
6. All nominations will be evaluated based on the achievement of one
or more of the following criteria:
    a. Establishment, sustainment, or expansion of a local PIE
Program with significant positive impacts on students, schools,
local communities, and awareness of the CG and its missions.
    b. Expansion of a local PIE Program through increased
participation of nearby CG units, schools and other community-based
organizations, volunteers, and students.
    c. Expansion of a local PIE Program through increased
collaboration with other CG programs to more effectively reach and
serve students and further increase the awareness of the CG and
its missions.
    d. Expansion of a PIE Program through the demonstrated actions,
leadership, and commitment of a CG unit's PIE Coordinator.
    e. Overcoming challenges faced by a local PIE Program, such as
limited staff and other resources, competing mission
responsibilities, personnel transitions, or changes affecting
students and schools or other partners.
7. Units and individuals competing for multiple awards must submit
separate nominations for each category. Nominations must be
submitted electronically to the POC in paragraph 8, NLT 29 August
2025. Packets must include the following:
    a. A signed cover memo from the Commanding Officer (CO) or
Officer in Charge (OIC) forwarding the package. Nominations of a
unit CO/OIC must be endorsed by the next level in the unit's
chain of command. The cover memo should contain the following
information:
        (1) Identification of the nomination category: Unit
Partnership, Collaborative Partnership, PIE Coordinator of the Year,
or Sustained Excellence in CG PIE.
        (2) Unit name, operating facility (OPFAC) number, and address.
        (3) PIE Coordinator name, phone number, and e-mail address.
        (4) Collaborative partner(s), point(s) of contact, and phone
number(s).
        (5) Partner school(s) address(es), point(s) of contact, and
phone number(s).
        (6) Number and grade level(s) of participating students and
total number of participating CG personnel.
        (7) Total number of hours volunteered during the performance
period.
        (8) Name and rank of Executive Officer (XO) or Executive Petty
Officer (XPO).
    b. A one-page, single-spaced narrative in Word specifically
citing the accomplishments for which the unit or individual is
being nominated.
8. Visit the following website to learn more about the CG PIE
Program, recent PIE Award winners, and how to initiate a local
PIE Program:
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https://www.uscg.mil/Resources/Civil-Rights/Partnership-in-
Education-Program/

9. POC: COMDT (CG-00H), Mr. Edward Stoker, Edward.A.Stoker@uscg.mil.
10. Mr. Scott Lanum, Acting Director of Civil Rights Directorate
(CG-00H), sends.
11. Internet release is authorized.