Higher Education
Design a project to support students in bridging meaningful divides after the 2024 election.
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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 our civic life and within our 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 we move into the period after the election, we hope these grants will fund projects that respond to meaningful needs on campuses as they seek to unite a diverse range of perspectives.
These projects can take many different forms—indeed we hope you develop a project that fits the unique needs and concerns of your own institution and community. We encourage potential applicants to consider how the election has impacted their campus and how they can make a swift and impactful difference in the post-election period. We hope these grants can empower and uplift your ideas and offer the resources to make them a reality during this difficult time in our civic life. Our hope is to support the work of strengthening your campus, especially amid difficult times.
The grants are meant to spur swift action during the weeks and months after the election. Applicants may request an amount of up to $5,000. Applicants must be based at a college or university in the United States.
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.
Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000.
Through its grant programs, Interfaith America is committed to supporting initiatives that meaningfully engage people with a range of religious, philosophical, or ideological perspectives as well as diverse racial and ethnic identities. To this end, the selection process will employ strategies that lead to selection of a wide range of institutions.
Strengthening the Campus Community Grant
Design a project to support students in bridging meaningful divides after the 2024 election.
higher education
Supporting student interfaith and bridgebuilding work after the 2024 election.
Please contact us with any questions about the Strengthening the Campus Community Grants.
Carr Harkrader
Program Consultant
Interfaith America
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