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The Engagement Scholarship Consortium has created grants to help facilitate mutually beneficial community engagement. The funding can be allocated to projects across disciplines within a university as well as used for faculty, graduate, undergraduate, community partner, and administrative stipends; supplies and expenses; and/or project-related travel. The deadline to apply is May 3, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.

Encourage students to apply to the Career Services' Knowledge in Action Career Internship Fund. KACIF provides grants to undergraduate and graduate students participating in high-quality necessarily unpaid internships. Applications will be accepted April 1 through April 30, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply. 

Each year HumanitiesDC awards about $1 million dollars to DC residents, groups and organizations through a series of community grant opportunities to support exciting public humanities endeavors that bring people together to explore the history, culture, relationships and topics that shape our city’s communities.

"This cycle we are offering $25,000 in grants for Capacity Building which helps humanities-based non-profit organizations strengthen their ability to advance their missions, as well as $25,000 in grants for youth-powered programming for ages 11-24 that uses the humanities as tools to explore critical questions about the world around them. Applications are due by 5:59 PM, May 1, 2024."

For more information on Cycle II grants, click on our grantmaking page.

Engineering Projects In Community Service in IEEE is calling for proposals for service learning projects around addressing the technological needs of communities around the world. EPIC in IEEE is partnering with the Industry Application Society in this project to support service learning initiatives. The deadline is May 1,2024. Click here to learn more and apply.

Webinar is February 5, 2024, 2pm, Register here

This webinar will explore findings from a new white paper from the Pew Charitable Trusts  that scans promising reforms to faculty reward systems to recognize a wider range of scholarly contributions in promotion and tenure decisions. The project was commissioned by participants in the Transforming Evidence Funders Network (TEFN), facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

...continue reading "Webinar Feb 5: Promising P&T Reforms for Societally-Impactful Research"

This is an opportunity specifically for liberal arts and sciences majors. Key into Public Service program,  is a $5,000 undergraduate scholarship and educational conference experience that highlights pathways into local, state, and federal government work.

Phi Beta Kappa seeks applications from well-rounded arts, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences students who possess an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher with an anticipated graduation date of Fall/Winter 2024 through Spring 2026. Characteristics of ideal recipients include intellectual curiosity, interdisciplinary breadth, and depth of arts and sciences coursework, leadership propensity, and service to others.

Students may apply here through January 22, 2024 or at pbk.org/ServiceScholarsApp.

The application deadline for Research! America's Civic Engagement Microgrant Program has been extended to Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Please send questions to skaska@researchamerica.org. ...continue reading "Share With Students: Research America Civic Engaged Microgrant Program"

The PAGE Fellows Program invites graduate students to participate in a yearlong working group in support of collaborative art-making, teaching, writing, storytelling, and co-creating knowledge with and within community. Apply here ...continue reading "Share With Students: PAGE Fellowship Application Deadline Approaching"

Apply now for the 2023 APPAM Equity and Inclusion Undergraduate Fellowship. This fellowship is open to undergraduates interested in the field of public policy and graduate public policy and public affairs schools. Deadline to apply is July 7th, 2023. Learn more and Apply here. 
...continue reading "Share With Students: 2023 APPAM Equity and Inclusion Undergraduate Fellowship"

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The Student Vote Research Network (SVRN) - a network of academics, practitioners and funders working to generate actionable, data-driven insights into how best to achieve 100% student voter participation - is issuing a call for proposals for a new round of subgrants for up to $15,000 in research funding due June 1. 

You can find all the information you need to apply here, in the State of the Student Vote Substack (be sure to subscribe to stay up-to-date on funding opportunities and new developments in the student vote research space!). You can also check out what last year’s grantees researched here.

On behalf of the George Washington University Institute for Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Equity (the Equity Institute), we write to share with you two new rounds of seed grant opportunities funded by the GWU Equity Institute!

  • Round 3 will fund research proposals on topics related to "Race and Technology."
  • Round 4 will fund interdisciplinary research collaborations among faculty and community partners from two or more GWU colleges/schools or programs.

Proposals are due by COB on May 24, 2023. You will find the due dates and further details below. Apply here.  ...continue reading "Funding Opportunities: GW Equity Institute Seed Grants"

HumanitiesDC is now accepting applications for the Capacity Building Grant and has extended the deadline for the DC Oral History Collaborative. These applications are due May 2, 2023. HumanitiesDC is hosting online information sessions on Capacity Building Grant on April 5th at 12pm and April 18th at 12pmClick here to register for one of these sessions.

Join the webinar Seeking General-Operating Grants to learn how to make a good case for acquiring funding through grants for your projects.  The event will take place live on February 23 at 2 PM ET, or you can watch it on demand at your convenience. You'll learn directly from two nonprofit executives who have successfully garnered general-operating support:
  • Glenn Harris, President of Race Forward, which helps hundreds of organizations across the country center racial equity.
  • Nick Turner, President and Director of the Vera Institute, which advocates for equity in the criminal justice system and has tripled its budget since 2013.
Thank you Nashman Faculty Affiliate Sandy Hoar for sharing this information!