Arts

Zakira Bakhshi stands outside with arms crossed.

Yale’s Zakira Bakhshi was awarded a Projects for Peace grant for her work focuses on the climate-conflict nexus, particularly in frontline communities.

A collage of two photos showing the 2025 Projects for Peace grantees from Trinity College - Benedicte Baile and Alexander Cacciato.

Funded Projects, Africa, Agriculture, Arts, Education, Equipment & Infrastructure, Livelihoods, Youth

Two Trinity students receive Projects for Peace Grants for Work in Burkina Faso and Senegal

by Gabby Nelson

Benedicte and Alexander conceived of these projects separately, but the connection between the projects extends further than the fact that they both take place in West Africa.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Documentation & Preservation, Youth

Bard Student Grace Miller-Trabold ’26 Awarded Davis Projects for Peace Grant

by Bard College

Miller-Trabold’s project will provide resources for youth workshops on Indigenous Oaxacan textile traditions.

Funded Projects, Alumni, Partner Institutions, Africa, Arts

Bard College Student Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 Named a Schwarzman Scholar

by Bard College

Projects for Peace alum Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 has been announced as a recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for 2025-26

Facing away from the camera, a women in an orange headscarf pulls a needle and thread through a new cross-stitch project.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Middle East & North Africa, Multi-national, Arts, Health & Well-being, Social Cohesion

Stitching Hope: Student Project Brings Healing to Displaced Afghan Women

by Brianna Patterson

Over summer 2023, UNC Chapel Hill students Divya Patel and Grace May partnered with the Refugee Community Partnership to provide art therapy and community building opportunities for the local Afghan refugee population.

Three photo collage featuring three college-age young men of varying skin tones all smiling and posing for the camera in front of garden backgrounds.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Social Cohesion, Youth

Colorado College Grads Plan Art Workshops

by Julia Fennell

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.

Weatherspoon, wearing an orange t-shirt, poses in a dimly lit living room with their book of poetry held in their hands.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Education, Health & Well-being, Youth

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.

Emily Zhang, wearing a navy blazer and white blouse, smiles for the camera in front of a series of marble columns opening up to the waterfront.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Building Bonds Through Books

by Nick Erickson

Led by George Washington alumna Emily Zhang, a team is using a Projects for Peace grant to fight stigmas of children with incarcerated parents through literature.

Green background with large white text "Bi-communal Musical Dialogues for Peace" next to a white and yellow illustration of a dove carrying a quarter note in its beak.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Middle East & North Africa, Arts, Education, Social Cohesion

Bi-communal Musical Dialogue for Peace

by Eleni Philippou

Elina Georgiou and Stephanie Kalavazidou designed “Bi-communal Musical Dialogues for Peace” to bridge divided Cypriot communities through music. Read more here!

Wearing a navy sweater, Elisabeth Sundberg poses for a photo in front of a green bush and white, marble, columns.

Funded Projects, Americas, Agriculture, Arts, Health & Well-being

Bard College Student Wins Projects for Peace Grant

by John Howell

Elisabeth Sunberg will use her Project for Peace to develop an initiative that addresses food insecurity in West Virginia.

Yale Junior Receives Projects for Peace Award