Deadline: December 31, 2025
Applications are open for the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) Grants 2025. PMIEF awards a limited number of grants each year to nonprofit organizations, supporting the incorporation of project management skills into their programs as well as internal capacity-building. They award grants to nonprofit organizations to invest in the development of young people by advancing project management knowledge.
Multi-year funding may support activities that include integrating project management into existing youth skills-building curricula and expanding curriculum and course offerings to promote project management as a critical skill. Other activities may include evaluating the impact of project management on youth and establishing innovative models and delivery mechanisms to enable youth success through project management.
If you are selected as a Youth-Serving Nonprofit Partner, PMIEF is committed to providing the support, expertise, and consulting you need to integrate project management into your youth programs and increase your organization’s project management capacity. This can include program development assistance, curriculum integration, project management training, coaching, and project management volunteers.
Eligibility
Eligible programs and organizations must:
- Operate programs with a primary focus on working with youth aged 14–24 on skill-building, empowerment, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership, project-based learning, etc.
- Deliver programs in one or more countries.
- Hold a 501(c)(3) or international equivalent.
- Operate, organize and administer services without regard to race, religion, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.
- Demonstrate a willingness to work closely with PMIEF to help youth succeed through project management.
The grants fund projects which address the following goals:
- Introduce and promote the use of project management as a life skill for youth ages 14-24.
- Advance the understanding of project management (especially in populations who may be underrepresented).
- Raise the awareness of project management in youth across the globe.
- Encourage new ventures, models of delivery, and innovative strategies to enable youth success through project management.
- All proposals must establish a plan for evaluating the impact of project management and sustaining the programming beyond the grant period.
Application
A Letter of Inquiry (LOI) is the first step in the grantmaking process. Your Letter of Inquiry should include:
- Organizational contact information, including the name(s), email address(es), and telephone number(s) of the key person(s)
- Introduction of your organization’s work and youth-serving mission
- Share a high-level summary of the proposed initiative and demonstrate alignment with PMIEF’s focus on youth enablement and project-based learning
- Anticipated outcomes of the initiative and number of youth enabled to project management by country and across three levels of potential enablement of youth and adult facilitators. PMIEF defines an enablement as a development offering that is focused on a specific learning objective, created by, in collaboration with, and/or delivered by PMI/PMIEF, where completion, attendance, or participation can be verified
- Level 1: Exposure (Introductory) – Help youth understand what project management is, its relevance to their lives, and provide opportunities for youth to identify themselves doing project management
- Level 2: Use Cases of PM Theory (Moderate) – Training that includes exercises where youth must apply classroom learning in the moment
- Level 3: Application (Advanced) – Application of project management in an independent setting where the use of project management techniques will result in the successful execution of a project.
- Professional development needs for staff in order to increase organizational efficiency
- How impact will be measured
- Potential challenges in executing the initiative
- Partners, if any, that will support the initiative
- Provide basic funding estimates and intended outcomes
For more information, visit PMIEF Grants.
