Public-Service Leadership Projects
There is an opportunity to apply for seed grants from the law school for public-interest oriented leadership projects that would enrich programmatic offerings across the university. The grants will be targeted at helping to start new projects aimed at developing future leaders.
Past grantees have included:
- Graduate students from Earth, Education and Medicine, who designed, implemented, and evaluated a novel curricular initiative to provide diversity and inclusion training to medical students;
- Stanford Medicine Climate and Health, who took on a one-year project to create leaders in Climate, Sustainability, and Healthcare; and
- The Haas Center for Public Service, which piloted a leadership program pairing graduate students with community-based organizations across nonprofit, government, policy organizations, and other settings.
A committee at the law school will be awarding grants of up to $40,000 this spring, and proposals are due by April 11. The proposals should be sent, in either PDF or Word format, to Todd Venook at tvenook@law.stanford.edu. Any questions should be sent to Todd as well.
- public-service orientation
- contribution to developing leadership skills
- evidence of a gap in existing programming or curriculum that this project would fill
- commitment to evaluation
- evidence of ability to execute a successful project
Any member of the Stanford community can apply, including students, staff and administrators.
To apply, you should submit a brief narrative proposal (1-3 pages, but really whatever you need) and a budget. The proposal should describe what you intend to do, why you think the project is valuable, and how your experience or expertise gives confidence that the project would be successful.
The funds can be used in a variety of ways to support project development: essentially anything that is reasonable to get your project off the ground. However, the fund will generally not support paying someone to teach a course absent a compelling showing of why the university is not paying for said course.
