Opportunities

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.

CIC is pleased to announce a new grant program to support the efforts of independent colleges and their communities to better understand the complex histories and legacies of American slavery.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.