AAUW International Project Grants 2026 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications for the AAUW International Project Grants 2026 are actually open. AAUW’s International Project Grants foster lasting influence by supporting International Fellowship alumnae who return to their home nations to lead group-based mostly initiatives. These grants empower alumnae to apply their tutorial experience and management abilities to tasks that advance gender fairness and enhance the lives of ladies and women.

From securing property rights for widows to establishing protected and dignified workspaces for cassava producers, alumnae-led initiatives tackle pressing and deeply rooted fairness challenges. By offering focused funding, AAUW permits alumnae to drive significant, regionally grounded change — supporting susceptible but resilient communities and creating pathways towards larger OPPORTUNITY and empowerment for ladies and women.

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• A $15,000 grant is supplied. Grant Term is from July 1 – June 30.

Eligibility

International Project Grants are awarded solely to people who:

• Identify as a lady
• Are an AAUW International Fellowship alumna who has efficiently accomplished the educational program for which they obtained a fellowship and all associated reporting necessities by June 30 of the application 12 months
  • Applicants are anticipated to reside in and implement their undertaking inside their home nation at some point of the grant interval.
  • Exception for Displacement: Applicants who’re residing exterior their home nation due to battle, political instability, or humanitarian circumstances could also be permitted to implement their undertaking of their present nation of residence. In such circumstances, candidates should reveal a significant connection to the host group and clearly articulate how the undertaking addresses native wants. 
• Are the first undertaking director, with management over all programmatic, budgetary, administrative, and editorial choices.
• Are main a undertaking that has a direct constructive influence for ladies and women in
  their group.
• Grant recipients should be non-U.S. residents or everlasting residents.   

Selection Criteria

• Clear alignment with AAUW’s mission of advancing fairness for ladies and women and may define how the proposed undertaking will instantly and positively influence these stakeholder teams  
• Project rationale that clearly defines a particular, regionally related want and demonstrates the undertaking’s timeliness, sustainability and significance and is supported by qualitative or quantitative proof resembling native knowledge, group assessments or stakeholder suggestions 
• Clear undertaking design with particular and measurable goal outcomes, proposed actions, and a logical framework that clearly connects undertaking targets, actions, and anticipated outcomes 
• Demonstrated capability of the alumna to implement the undertaking although related abilities, expertise, and management, supported by a practical, time-certain implementation plan, a possible price range, and proof of stakeholder enter in shaping each the timeline and useful resource allocation 
• A dedication to studying and analysis by (1) incorporating monitoring/analysis strategies that allow evaluation of undertaking outcomes; and (2) describing how outcomes and/or learnings from undertaking implementation can be shared with stakeholders and/or the communities which the undertaking intends to serve  

Application

Applicants are required to submit a undertaking proposal and supporting price range.

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For extra info, go to AAUW International Project Grants.