Mini-grants are awarded to youth-serving programs with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). They are granted to support collaboration, address gaps and overlaps in service, and share exemplary practices. Mini-grants are a small amount of seed funding and are not intended to fully fund entire projects. The maximum mini-grant award is $1,000.
Why Provide Mini-Grants?
Numerous organizations provide valuable but uncoordinated activities and support services related to motivating and supporting interest in STEM careers. Mini-grants are designed to build collaboration between existing programs and organizations to encourage youth to pursue STEM-related educational programs and careers. Preference is given to applications that are innovative and involve a collaboration between two programs or organizations that have not previously collaborated together.
Mini-Grant Application Requirements
- At least two programs from different organizations must collaborate on the mini-grant project.
- The applicant must choose one program to be the lead.
- Preference is given to projects that are innovative and include a collaboration between organizations that has not occurred before.
Application Resources
None available at this time.
- Exemplary Practices use strategies, curricula, and resources that have research and/or evaluation data to support their effectiveness.
- Mini-Grant Project Ideas
- Rubric used by reviewers of mini-grant applications.
- Developing Measurable Objectives may help applicants create measurable, well-aligned objectives.
- The NGCP Brand Guide and Glossary may help applicants fill out their application.
Programs and Initiatives
