Funded Projects

Blonde-haired Olha Vasyliv, wearing a black jacket and crossing her arms, poses for a portrait in front of a reflective glass wall.

Inspired by her lived experience, Olha Vasyliv will enact educational workshops for refugee children in Ukraine and Austria.

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.

Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza, both wearing black shirts, pose smiling for the camera with their arms around each other in front of a white wall and multi-hue blue painting.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Human Rights & Justice, Social Cohesion

Macalester Students Seek to Empower Teachers in Brazil

by Macalester College

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.

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.

Giovanna Novi, wearing a light blue sweater, black pants, and gray boots, smiles and sits in a brown chair placed in front of white bookshelves.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Social Cohesion, Technology

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.

Ariha Shahed, wearing a white sweater and brown pants, poses in front of a small pond.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Asia, Health & Well-being, Youth

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.

Jonathan Tamen poses smiling outside wearing a slate grey puffer jacket and white t-shirt with the text "helping hands" in black just visible.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Technology, Youth

Clark University Student to Address Disparities in the Classroom

by Clark University

This summer, Jonathan Tamen will implement his project Students Helping Hands, which aims to address disparities in education in Miami Beach, Florida.

On the left, Ngan Bui, wearing a pink and white blouse and black glasses, poses in front of an outdoor background while on the right Elspeth Collard, wearing a blue shirt and brown glasses, poses in front of a brick hallway.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Asia, Africa, Environment, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice

University of Richmond Students Address Human-Wildlife Interaction and Human Trafficking

by University of Richmond

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.

Mauro José Ramírez Azofeifa, wearing a yellow shirt, black pants, ball cap, and surgical mask, poses with three children and their parents.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Environment, Youth

Projects for Peace Grantees Focus on Environmental Education

by COA Communications

College of the Atlantic’s Mauro José Ramírez Azofeifa co-founded Visionarios de Paz, an environmental education organization based in his hometown of Palmichal, Costa Rica with his $10,000 Projects for Peace grant. Read all about him and his work!

A group of teenagers huddle together and smile for the camera.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Human Rights & Justice, Social Cohesion, Youth

Building an Empowering Space for Young Asian American Women

by Ginny Sharkey

Denison University grantee Joan Do-Truong used her Projects for Peace grant to create programs to build a community for young Asian American women where they could share their experiences and gain the knowledge to create lasting change in their communities.

Connecticut College Grantee Focuses on Educational Community