Grant

The CIC Capacity-Building Grant Program was created to provide “seed money” grants for State Councils to enhance or expand their capacity to raise money to support their programs and member colleges.

CIC is pleased to invite faculty members who incorporate art history in their courses to apply for a grant to support student engagement with pre-modern works of European art.

CIC invites faculty members in STEM fields to apply for a grant of up to $2,000 to support activities to enrich science pedagogy in their courses and/or departments.

CIC offers its State Councils the opportunity to apply for challenge grants designed to leverage additional gifts for scholarships, with the CIC grant and matching funds passed along to the State Council’s member colleges as student financial aid.

The National Venture Fund grant program was established to inspire and fund creative solutions to the needs of independent colleges and universities and to encourage participation in such efforts by foundations, corporations, government agencies, individuals, and other nonprofit organizations.

The mission of the First Opportunity Partners (FOP) Grant Program is to provide matching grants to CIC State Councils in support of new, collaborative, and innovative approaches to increasing college access and success of first-generation, low-income, minority, and new American students.

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.

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.

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 these two purposes of undergraduate education. 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. Applications for the current round of Vocation across the Academy Grants are due by April 4, 2025.