Funding Opportunities

Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund

The Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) offers grants of $5,000 to $50,000 for student-initiated projects that promote environmental sustainability on the University of Michigan Campus. This fund encourages projects of a larger scale and impact than those covered by the Student Sustainability Initiative's small-scale grant funding.

Priority is given to projects that are of an innovative, visible, and transformative nature. Other criteria include factors such as student involvement and interest, economic payback, and partnerships facilitated within the U-M community of students, staff, and faculty.

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If you have questions, please contact the review board at pbsif-board@umich.edu

U-M Center for Entrepreneurship Fuel Grants
Fuel represents CFE’s focused initiative to directly support student projects. It is aimed at student ventures or founders who are dedicated to the process of commercialization. These ventures should be actively pursuing achievable objectives, such as developing a minimum viable product, securing funding, making sales, and generating revenue. This program is open to both profit and non-profit initiatives, provided they have a well-defined subsequent task or significant accomplishment that can be realized within a single semester.

Application continuously open. Every month is an opportunity to earn funding. Up to $25,000 and other resources for student ventures and projects.  Learn More

U-M Library Student Mini Grants
The U-M Library is committed to engaging with the campus community to extend learning beyond the classroom.  Apply today for our Student Mini Grants (up to $1,000), a program which supports innovative and collaborative projects that make a real-life impact. Selected projects must strengthen community partnerships, enhance global scholarship, and/or advocate for inclusion and diversity, as well as engage with library experts and library services or resources.

Grant applications are due Sunday, October 1st by midnight. 

This initiative is sponsored by the U-M Library Student Engagement Program.

Dow Sustainability Fellows Program Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability
This program is a University-wide competition for applied sustainability projects that cut across disciplines and involve U-M students at all academic levels. The competition seeks project proposals that describe a compelling and practical new product, service, or project that seeks to protect the environment and enhance quality of life for present and future generations. One or two project teams are selected annually to receive up to $30,000 in funding.

Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH)
This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Arts at Michigan Student Mini-Grants 

These grants support U-M undergraduate initiatives in the arts by providing up to $1,000 in funding for arts and cultural projects that have a significant impact on campus life. Any undergraduate U-M student can apply for a grant for their own project, or as part of an undergraduate student organization. Applications are reviewed five times annually.

Wallenberg Fellowship

Inspired by the spirit of Raoul Wallenberg, the Wallenberg Fellowship is awarded in the spring of each year to a graduating University of Michigan senior of exceptional promise and accomplishment who is committed to service and the public good. The fellowship provides $25,000 to carry out an independent project of learning or exploration anywhere in the world during the year after graduation.

ArtsEngine Student MicroGrants
These grants are open to undergraduate and graduate students and award up to $1,500 to students and student teams to support interdisciplinary projects which incorporate the arts as a central theme or component. These projects must have at least one participating member from one of the four North Campus schools or colleges.

Arts Integration Interdisciplinary Research (AiiR)
Grants are open to graduate students and designed to support research projects that integrate the arts or design with other disciplines, especially those in engineering and the sciences. Individual grants up to $3,000 can support existing research efforts as well as new areas of inquiry.

Spectrum Center
Spectrum Center offers enrichment grants of up to $500 to individual students and student organizations at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus who are looking to implement projects that seek to improve the experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and campus climate.The goal of this funding initiative is to create new leadership opportunities for University of Michigan students and to provide funding for the programming that matters to them. The hope for this initiative is that this assistance will enable the students to develop skills and community resources to transform policies and practices on campus, in the community, and on a national scale that positively impact LGBTQ+ communities.

Fuel: Empowering Student Ventures with Comprehensive Support
Fuel represents CFE’s focused initiative to directly support student projects. It is aimed at student ventures or founders who are dedicated to the process of commercialization. These ventures should be actively pursuing achievable objectives, such as developing a minimum viable product, securing funding, making sales, and generating revenue. This program is open to both profit and non-profit initiatives, provided they have a well-defined subsequent task or significant accomplishment that can be realized within a single semester.

Student Academic Multicultural Initiatives (SAMI)
Students can request funding to support your organization’s diversity programs, or a personal event or project that is both academic and multicultural. If you have any questions about eligibility or the application process please contact Hector Galvan at hgalvan@umich.edu

The Ginsberg Center’s Community Engagement Grant
The Community Engagement Grant provides multiple forms of financial resources for student groups and organizations to engage in positive change through social justice education, leadership development, and meaningful service experiences with the community. The Community Engagement Grant program allows us to deepen our partnerships with student organizations and support community-based initiatives. Community Engagement Grants are offered on a rolling basis until funds are depleted. If you have any questions please email The Ginsberg Center at ginsberginfo@umich.edu