American Association of University Women (AAUW)Grant

$15,000 AAUW Women’s Impact Grant

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Opportunity type

Grant

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Archived

About this opportunity

AAUW’s International Project Grants foster lasting impact by supporting International Fellowship alumnae who return to their home countries to lead community-based initiatives. These grants empower alumnae to apply their academic expertise and leadership skills to projects that advance gender equity and improve the lives of women and girls.

From securing property rights for widows to establishing safe and dignified workspaces for cassava producers, alumnae-led initiatives address urgent and deeply rooted equity challenges. By providing targeted funding, AAUW enables alumnae to drive meaningful, locally grounded change, supporting vulnerable yet resilient communities and creating pathways toward greater opportunity and empowerment for women and girls.

Grants empower alumnae to apply academic expertise and leadership skills to community-based initiatives. Past projects include:

Securing property rights for widows in Africa
Establishing safe workspaces for cassava producers in Ghana
STEM education programs for girls in India
Farmer training networks in China

Who can apply

Identify as a Woman
Must be an AAUW International Fellowship alumna who completed her fellowship program and reporting requirements
Must reside in and implement project in home country (or current country of residence if displaced)
Must be primary project director with control over programmatic, budgetary, and administrative decisions
Project must directly benefit women and girls
Disqualified if applicant is an AAUW employee, consultant, intern, or immediate family member
Graduate student
Running a project or organization
Working (full-time or part-time)

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+AAUW's current programme page is genuinely well built: a milestone timeline, itemised eligibility, how-to-apply steps, application requirements, prohibited costs, selection process and an FAQ, all on one page
+Real money with a clear ceiling: applicants may request 10,000 dollars or less, disbursed in two instalments, with grantee-proposed start and end dates
+Very high credibility: AAUW has funded women's education since 1888 and reports 29.6 million dollars awarded across six years

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!THE RECORD'S TITLE AND AMOUNT ARE BOTH WRONG. AAUW runs no programme called a Women's Impact Grant; a site search returns nothing relevant. The programme the record's link resolves to is International Project Grants, and its ceiling is 10,000 dollars, not 15,000
!THE APPLY URL ON FILE POINTS AT A STALE DUPLICATE that still advertises the 2024 submission period. The current page is a different URL. The link must be repointed or applicants will read a closed cycle
!Eligibility is far narrower than a general youth listing implies: applicants must identify as a woman AND have already COMPLETED an AAUW International Fellowship between June 2011 and June 2026. This is open only to AAUW International Fellowship alumnae
!The page gives a closing date but no time. AAUW's sibling programmes close at 5:00pm ET, so the 23:59 default may be nine hours too generous. Treat 5:00pm ET as the working cutoff
!Grant funds cannot be used for salaries, tuition, scholarships, fundraising, lobbying or building work

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About this opportunity

Grants empower alumnae to apply academic expertise and leadership skills to community-based initiatives. Past projects include:

Securing property rights for widows in Africa
Establishing safe workspaces for cassava producers in Ghana
STEM education programs for girls in India
Farmer training networks in China

Who can apply

Identify as a Woman
Must be an AAUW International Fellowship alumna who completed her fellowship program and reporting requirements
Must reside in and implement project in home country (or current country of residence if displaced)
Must be primary project director with control over programmatic, budgetary, and administrative decisions
Project must directly benefit women and girls
Disqualified if applicant is an AAUW employee, consultant, intern, or immediate family member
Graduate student
Running a project or organization
Working (full-time or part-time)