Deadline: January 31, 2025
Applications are open for the Interfaith America Strengthening the Campus Community Grants 2025. In the weeks and months following the 2024 election, it is more important than ever to cultivate, support, and empower student leadership on campuses across the country. The divisive nature of the election season highlighted the ongoing tensions in the civic life and within US campus communities. Following the election, there is an opportunity for leadership on campuses that brings people together on issues of common concern.
Interfaith America’s Strengthening the Campus Community grants are intended to support projects that bring together a diverse group of students in order to bridge meaningful divides on their campus or between students on campus and their local community. Strong applications will include activities, programs, groups, or events that leverage interfaith and bridgebuilding skills for concrete and meaningful actions in post-election America. These initiatives should also be focused on engaging undergraduate students. As the US moves into the period after the election, interfaith America hopes these grants will fund projects that respond to meaningful needs on campuses as they seek to unite a diverse range of perspectives.
Funding
- Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000.
Eligibility
- Only students, staff, faculty, and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States may apply for this grant.
- The grant is not eligible for organizations, institutions, or individuals located outside of the United States.
- Projects must respond in a positive and swift way to the atmosphere on their campuses after the 2024 election and engage undergraduate students directly in this work.
Deliverables
- Participation in one advising call with Interfaith America staff member during the grant period.
- Submission of any media material (i.e. news articles, university media mentions, etc.) concerning the project and/or any significant created resources or tools related to the project.
- Complete a Final Report, sent by IA, summarizing the achievements of grant project and sharing the number and type of participants engaged (students, staff, faculty, alumni, community members, etc.).
Application
Applications will not be accepted past January 31, 2025. Though applications may close earlier if a sufficient number of proposals have been selected.
For more information, visit Strengthening the Campus Community Grants.
