Projects for Peace is a global program that encourages students to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Projects for Peace awards student leaders $10,000 grants to implement projects anywhere in the world over the summer. Projects for Peace was created in 2007 through the generosity of Kathryn W. Davis and is now hosted at Middlebury College. View the Projects for Peace headquarters website here: https://www.middlebury.edu/projects-for-peace.
Eligibility
Undergraduate Trinity students (including seniors who would complete their projects after graduation) are eligible. Groups of students from the same or different campuses, as well as individual students, may submit proposals. A Trinity student must be named as the project leader.
Student Stipends
Students can elect to use a portion of the $10,000 grant as a stipend to offset wage loss from not working for the duration of the project. The maximum stipend request is $2,000. If a project team consists of multiple Trinity students, the students can elect to split the stipend or for the entirety of the stipend to be given to one student. Non-Trinity students are not eligible to receive grant funds for a stipend. The stipend amount requested should be recorded on the budget sheet under the miscellaneous category.
Process
To be considered, please submit the following documents to Gabby Nelson, [email protected]. Before starting on your application, review the proposal guidance page on the Trinity Projects for Peace webpage for 1) what topics must be covered in the proposal, 2) considerations to think through while planning your project, 3) how to ask for letters of support and recommendation, and 4) selection criteria.
Deadline
January 15, 2026
Interviews and Selection
Finalists will be selected for a half hour interview at the Center for Urban and Global Studies. Interviews will be conducted in late January Two proposals will be selected to be nominated as finalists for Projects for Peace by February 4, 2026. At the time of nomination, further refinement of the proposal may be suggested by the selection committee. The final project selection will be made by the Projects for Peace team headquartered at Middlebury College.
Questions
Questions can be sent to Gabby Nelson, [email protected] or Mark Hughes, [email protected].
2025 Info Session
View the October 16, 2025 info session with Betsy Vegso, Director of Projects for Peace, and Mariam Avagyan ’18
View past Trinity student Project for Peace proposals and reports in the Digital Repository. A Trinity log-in is required to view the archive. When accessing from on campus, you may not need to log in. When accessing from on campus, click “log in through your library” to access the archive. Photo from Rebecca Irakiza’s “Water for Peace Project.”
Review this page before and during the development of your proposal for 1) what topics must be covered in the proposal, 2) considerations to think through while planning your project, 3) how to ask for letters of support and recommendation, and 4) selection criteria. Photo from Albert Ananyan’s 2023 project “Dilikar.”
Trinity students have completed 24 Projects for Peace since the program’s founding in 2007. Read stories about some of these projects on the CUGS blog. Photo from Daniel Santos Ramirez and Gabriel Sorondo’s 2022 project “Proyecto Turpial: Diasporic Youth Encounters.”
This panel event, hosted by the Projects for Peace headquarters at Middlebury College, features Trinity alumna Ana Stambolic ’21. Topics covered include tips for project implementation, reflections on project challenges and successes, how Projects for Peace has impacted panelists’ professional and academic paths, and much more.
