Overview

Mini-grants are awarded to girl-serving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focused programs to support collaboration, address gaps and overlaps in service, and share promising practices. Mini-grant projects must relate to either informal learning or evaluation and assessment. Mini-grants are a small amount of seed funding and are not intended to fully fund entire projects. The maximum mini-grant award is $1000.

Numerous organizations provide valuable but uncoordinated activities and support services related to motivating and supporting girls’ interest in STEM careers. These mini-grants are designed to build collaboration between existing programs and organizations in order to encourage girls to pursue STEM-related educational programs and careers.

If you have a program registered you can begin a Mini-Grant Application. If you do not have a program registered, you must first Register a Program so that it may be selected as your lead program.

"Having a large network gives each individual/local organization or program more leverage, so the more we (STEM programs) collaborate and present our ideas as one entity, the more students benefit."