NetVUE offers a variety of grants to member institutions, supporting programming for students and professional development for faculty members and staff. Grants support projects ranging from one to four years in length, providing funding from $20,000 to over $150,000. Grant programs are tailored to differing circumstances among member institutions, including their particular areas of interest, their bandwidth and capacity for administering projects, and the depth of their previous engagement with vocational exploration and discernment. NetVUE grants are administered by the Council of Independent Colleges, with generous support from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Click on any grant program listed here to learn about its eligibility requirements, funding, duration, and instructions for submitting a proposal.
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NetVUE Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration
NetVUE Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration aim to support projects that will generate artifacts or products that will develop and expand the existing field of scholarship, conversation, and pedagogy on vocation in undergraduate education. Applications are due October 3, 2025. -
NetVUE Program Development Grants
Program Development Grants are intended to deepen, expand, refresh, or otherwise strengthen vocational exploration programs that are already underway and supported by NetVUE member colleges and universities. The current round of Program Development Grants are due November 21, 2025. -
NetVUE Grants for Fostering Leadership for Communities of Faith
This grant program provides funding to develop programming for students, and/or professional development for faculty members and staff, with the goal of connecting students to local faith communities and supporting them as they explore their callings. Applications for the current round are due by December 19, 2025. -
NetVUE Professional Development Awards
NetVUE Professional Development Awards may be requested in amounts up to $20,000 for use over one year for professional development activities that enhance the knowledge, skills, and expertise of faculty and staff members who play important roles in undergraduate vocational initiatives. -
NetVUE Vocation across the Academy Grants
The purpose of this grant program is to help colleges and universities develop more effective ways to strengthen the link between two purposes of undergraduate education: shaping a philosophy of life and securing postgraduate employment. NetVUE Vocation across the Academy Grants provide three years of grant funding of up to $150,000 for projects that are four years in duration. -
NetVUE Grants for Reframing the Institutional Saga
The purpose of this grant program is to enable institutions to produce an updated account of their history and mission in light of their current context. Grants may be requested in amounts ranging up to $60,000 for use over three years. Applications for the current round of Grants for Reframing the Institutional Saga are due by August 8, 2025.
Resources for Grantees
The resources below have been curated for NetVUE grantees and can be found on the NetVUE Online Community. The site requires members to log in, using the email address that is associated with their CIC account. (You have a CIC account if you have ever registered or applied for any NetVUE opportunity or event, or those of any other CIC program.) The Community Network site includes options for checking to see whether you have an account, and for retrieving your password if you don’t know it. If you are able to log in and are not automatically taken to the NetVUE Community, click the “Communities” tab and see whether NetVUE is listed under “My Communities.” If not, please send an email to astephenson@cic.edu and include your full name, title, and institution. You will be added to the roster of NetVUE community members and will then be notified that you have access to the full site.
Resources for Assessing Vocation
NetVUE has gathered a variety of resources that are specifically related to vocation to offer ideas about how to approach assessment—whether with respect to a course, a curriculum, or a campus-wide program. These resources feature over ten different approaches to assessment and offer vocation-specific examples for each type.
Social Media Kits for Grantees
Congratulations on receiving a NetVUE grant! Your story is important and worth sharing. To make it easy for you to promote your project, NetVUE has created media kits tailored to the specific grant you were awarded. Each kit includes several sample social media posts, images, and copy text for an email or campus-wide announcement.
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