The application period is NOW OPEN for the Spring 2025 Women’s Board grants for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Please read this page carefully as THE APPLICATION AND TIMELINE HAVE CHANGED for the 2025-2026 grants process.
In an effort to streamline the application process, all grant requests will now begin with the submission of a brief Letter of Intent (LOI). All LOIs are due by 5:00pm Friday, January 24, 2025.
To submit an LOI form, please click here.
LOIs will be reviewed by members of Women’s Board and a short-list of applicants will be invited to submit a full grant proposal. All applicants will be notified by Friday, February 28, about their status. Shortlisted applicants will have seven weeks to complete their full proposals, including a letter of endorsement, and all materials are due by Friday, April 18.
Note: The full proposal form will be available by Friday, February 28, 2024.
Please note that applicants will no longer need to submit a 5-min video with their full proposals.
The Grants Committee (a group of approximately 20 Women’s Board members) will review and evaluate the full proposals. All applicants will be asked to schedule a 10-15 minute in-person Q&A session with the Grants Committee on Wednesday, May 8, or Thursday, May 9. Award announcements will be made by Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
The University of Chicago Women’s Board Grant Fund Timeline for the 2025-2026 academic year is as follows:
- Friday, January 24, 2025: Deadline for the Letter of Intent (LOI), the brief preliminary funding request. To submit an LOI, please click here.
- Friday, February 28, 2025: By this date, all applicants will be informed of their LOI status, and if they are invited to submit a full application for their grant request.
- Friday, April 18, 2025: Deadline for full application submissions for the 2025-2026 academic year.
- Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8, 2025: Q&A sessions for all full applications (in-person) will take place at Harper Court.
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025: By this date, Grant Committee deliberations will conclude, and all applicants will be informed of their status.
- Friday, June 27, 2025: By this date, all grant winners must complete the acceptance form to receive funding.
- September 2025: Funding is distributed to awardees.
Please contact the Women’s Board with any inquiries at ucwb@uchicago.edu.