Mini-grants are awarded to girl-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 $1000.
Why Provide Mini-Grants?
Numerous organizations provide valuable but uncoordinated activities and support services related to motivating and supporting girls’ interest in STEM careers. Mini-grants are designed to build collaboration between existing programs and organizations to encourage girls 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.
- Both your organization and your collaborating partner/s must be registered and approved in The Connectory BEFORE applying.
- The applicant must choose one of her/his programs to be the lead program.
- The lead program must be located in a collaborative state or region currently offering mini-grants.
- Preference is given to projects that are innovative and include a collaboration between organizations that has not occurred before.
- Mini-grant projects must last longer than one day, unless the one-day project is part of a larger event (for example, a one-day STEM conference for middle school girls that is included within a week-long summer camp).
If you have a registered program in an area currently accepting mini-grant applications, you may submit an application. If you do not have a registered program, you must first submit your provider program in The Connectory so it may be selected as your lead program. Register your provider program in The Connectory.
Application Resources
None available at this time.
- Mini-Grants FAQ
- Contact your Collaborative's Mini-Grant Lead.
- Contact NGCP's National Mini-Grant Administrator at minigrant@ngcproject.org.
- 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.
- Evaluation Requirements for Funded Mini-Grants helps applicants understand post-award reporting requirements.
- Mini-Grant Reporting Form provides applicants with the questions they will be asked to answer when the project is complete.