Projects for Peace
Projects for Peace (administered by Middlebury College)
A competitive student award giving $10,000 to design and carry out a peacebuilding project, usually over the summer. Winners run the project themselves, including any documentation or assessment of it.
- Indicative award
- $10k (total award)The site states each grantee receives $10,000 to implement their project, and that roughly $1.25 million is distributed annually across all grantees.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Runs annually, with projects typically implemented May through August. The public page does not publish an application deadline; campuses set their own internal deadline through a designated liaison, so ask yours early in the academic year.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate
- Eligibility
- You must be a student enrolled at one of the 115+ eligible partner institutions; there is no open national application and no route for a university to apply as an institution. Most recipients are undergraduates. Check whether your campus has a Projects for Peace liaison.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- peacebuilding · community projects · student-led initiatives · global engagement
- Apply at
- https://www.middlebury.edu/projects-for-peace
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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