Connecticut College Grantee Focuses on Educational Community
Inspired by her lived experience, Olha Vasyliv will enact educational workshops for refugee children in Ukraine and Austria.
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Colorado College Grads Plan Art Workshops
Friends and collaborators Cormac McCrimmon, Andres Madrigal, and Manuel Uribe will use their grant to focus on the power of art to enact social change.
Macalester Students Seek to Empower Teachers in Brazil
Macalester College students Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza hope to use their Projects for Peace grant to train Brazilian teachers in anti-racist classroom approaches.
Projects for Peace Presents First Alumni Award
Projects for Peace and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury have announced the inaugural recipient of the Projects for Peace Alumni Award: human rights and education activist Joseph Kaifala.
Bowdoin College Grantee Pursues Peace through Poetry
by Jane Godiner
As the Bowdoin community moves into the second half of the spring semester, Weatherspoon ’25 is preparing to launch a life-changing summer program for children in the foster care system.
Colby College Grantee to Cultivate Communication Skills
by Laura Meader
Giovanni Novi will use her Projects for Peace grant to develop a curriculum, build an online platform, and deliver workshops and webinars to caregivers and professionals working with seniors in medical, social service, and retirement-living settings.
Bard College Student Plans to Support Families in Bangladesh
by Bard College
Ariha Shahed will focus her work this summer on supporting Bangladeshi families living in extreme poverty along the country’s railway tracks, communities that often go unnoticed.
Clark University Student to Address Disparities in the Classroom
This summer, Jonathan Tamen will implement his project Students Helping Hands, which aims to address disparities in education in Miami Beach, Florida.
University of Richmond Students Address Human-Wildlife Interaction and Human Trafficking
Two University of Richmond seniors—Ngan Bui and Elspeth Collard—have Projects for Peace grants. They will focus on human trafficking and human-wildlife interaction.