AAUW Career Development Grants 2026 (up to $8,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are open for the AAUW Career Development Grants 2026. Career Development Grants champion gender fairness in schooling and workplaces by investing up to $8,000 in ladies pursuing a certificates, credential, or coaching program wanted to enter, transition into, or advance inside excessive-demand STEM fields wherein they’re underrepresented. Grants fund brief-time period, accredited applications.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) additionally welcomes functions from ladies presently employed in excessive-demand STEM fields who search government-stage or management growth coaching to advance into choice-making roles.

AAUW goals to assist shut the gender hole in STEM professions, together with in technical and government management roles, by supporting a broad vary of profession trajectories. AAUW’s Career Development Grants focus particularly on rising tech and science-pushed industries, and AAUW holds a specific curiosity in applications that lead to tangible employment outcomes or development inside 6-12 months.

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• The award ceiling for Career Development Grants is $8,000. Grant funds are payable to grantees solely and are disbursed in full, in the beginning of the grant time period or at the begin of this system, as applicable.

Eligibility

• Applicants should determine as a girl.
• Applicants should be:
  • Accepted or enrolled in a certificates, credential or coaching program in a excessive-development STEM area, wherein projected occupational development is 5% or extra over the subsequent 8-10 years, and the place ladies are underrepresented, and comprise lower than 50% of the workforce; OR
  • Currently employed in a excessive-development STEM area, wherein projected occupational development is 5% or extra over the subsequent 8-10 years, and the place ladies are underrepresented, and comprise lower than 50% of the workforce, if pursuing government management or administration coaching.
• Certificate, credential, or coaching applications should embrace a minimal of 400 educational hours.
• Programs should be supplied by accredited or licensed establishments and lead to skilled development or employment within the applicant’s chosen area.
• Applicants should maintain a bachelor’s diploma.
• Applicants whose accredited certificates, credential or coaching applications immediately put together them for business-acknowledged certification could obtain precedence consideration, relying on the energy of their application and alignment with program targets.

Application

The application deadline for Round 1 of the AAUW Career Development Grants is September 30, 2025.

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For extra data, go to AAUW Career Development Grants.