Alumni TIES Small Grants

As participants of Alumni TIES, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other exchange alumni to develop an Alumni TIES small grant project. Alumni TIES Small Grants (up to $10,000 USD per grant) are awarded on a competitive basis, based on the proposed project’s connection to the seminar’s theme, innovation, feasibility, realistic timeline, and participatory approach to community engagement. The small grant application is due on April 25, 2022 at 23:59 ET. Review the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the small grants program.

Since 2016, the Alumni TIES program has awarded 189 small grants to Alumni TIES participants. These small grant projects have affected the lives of people in 250 communities around the world. Please take a moment to read about some of these small grant projects on the Alumni TIES Medium blog.

To help participants develop their project idea and manage their awarded grant, all participants will be given access to the Alumni TIES Small Grants Management course on the learning management system, Canvas.

The Small Grants Management course is a self-guided, optional online course to help you plan, implement, and manage a community engagement project. The course has 15 modules on the subtopics of project design, project management, and project evaluation. This course is designed to help those who do not have the background or those who wish to learn other approaches of how to design and implement a community engagement project funded by a small grant. We encourage you to review the modules on conducting a needs assessment, developing a problem statement, project planning, budgeting, performance monitoring, and proposal writing before you submit your small grant application. You can access the Small Grants Management course and set up your student profile by clicking on the link below. You will be able to access the Alumni TIES Small Grant Application a month before the seminar.