Bring people together. We'll back you up. - Incite at Columbia University

This summer, our Assembling Voices fellowship and Global Change Program will award over $150,000 to changemakers who bring communities together to address issues in novel ways.

At Incite, we recognize that expertise takes many forms and can be found in many contexts. This understanding drives us to look for collaborators beyond the walls of the academy, where people and organizations engage with important challenges in different ways, developing practical wisdom through their efforts to transform themselves and their worlds.

Our awards programs are important avenues for connecting and working with artists, activists, community leaders, scholars, and other extraordinary people from outside the university. Working together, we understand and engage the social world in surprising new ways and build new capacities in our communities, organizations, and selves.

Our flagship public award programs, Assembling Voices and the Global Change Program, are now accepting applications for the 2025–2026 program year. If you or someone you know has a compelling idea for an initiative that engages a community around an issue, read on.

Assembling Voices

$25,000 USD for U.S.-based initiatives.

Assembling Voices is a year-long fellowship that supports activists, artists, scholars, workers, and others with ideas for public initiatives that bring people together to address community-identified issues in novel ways.

During the program year, fellows receive $25,000 in income, initiative, and travel support, as well as intellectual, administrative, and professional support from Incite Institute and our vast network.

Applications due August 15, 2025. Virtual information sessions on June 11 and July 21.

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Global Change Program

$10,000–$25,000 USD for initiatives around the world.

The Global Change Program supports activists, scholars, organizers, artists, and others working with communities most directly challenged by these issues and many others.

Through the Global Change Program, Incite provides grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 to leaders of projects, initiatives, or campaigns across the globe who are tackling some of the world's most pressing problems.

Global Change Program grantees remain in the field during the award year while receiving intellectual support from Incite and other institutions at Columbia University.

Applications due August 1, 2025. Virtual information sessions on June 11 and July 8.

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