Projects for Peace is a global program that encourages young adults to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Along the way, these student leaders increase their knowledge, improve skills, and establish identities as peacebuilders and changemakers. Every year 100 or more student leaders are awarded a grant in the amount of $10,000 each to implement a “Project for Peace,” anywhere in the world, typically over summer break. Projects for Peace are grassroots activities that address root causes of conflict and promote peace. This opportunity is open to all class years.

ESRGs support research that applies knowledge to needs, and aims toward understanding and/or ameliorating social problems or community needs. You can request funding for research assistance, the purchase of equipment, and travel essential to Engaged Scholarship research that will take place during the calendar year. Successful applications are typically able to show how the proposed research is likely to culminate in products including but not limited to publications, public performances, or art installations. Faculty may request a maximum of two RA summer stipends ($6000 each) and/or up to $5000 in other support. Applicants may be any faculty rank but VAPs must have at least one or two years remaining on their contract with the College.

This scholarship awards up to $6000 to support a 10-week summer internship. SISS supports students pursuing unpaid positions with host organizations that empower them to add dimension to their undergraduate course work while advancing the organization's mission, goals, and objectives. This opportunity is open to first-years, sophomores, and juniors.

The Lang Center supports students to conduct research in the service of a Swarthmore College faculty member's Engaged Scholarship through the Faculty-Led Engaged Research Grant (FLER) Program. Students interested in applying for a FLER grant should reach out directly to the faculty member with whom they would like to work and receive confirmation of their acceptance before submitting an application to the Lang Center. Unlike other grant programs of the Lang Center, both students AND faculty are required to complete applications for this type of funding. Awards up to $6000 for the summer and is open to all class years.

The Chester Community Fellowship (CCF) enhances the capacity of Chester-based community organizations while providing opportunities for student learning. Students hold internships four days a week; on the fifth day, Fellows work together on a project-in-common relevant to the City of Chester. The summer experience focuses on developing each Chester Fellow as a scholar, civic leader, and public servant. Awards up to $6000 for the summer and is open to first-years, sophomores, and juniors.

In the President’s Sustainability Research Fellowship (PSRF) at Swarthmore College, students learn by leading: by taking stewardship over vital sustainability challenges. The program matches motivated students with small teams of staff and faculty mentors to research, develop, and implement projects in a year-long course and associated internship. This program awards students an academic credit per semester and pays students for hourly internship work. This opportunity is open to all class years.

Each summer, one Swarthmore student is awarded a fellowship to complete an independent reporting project with preferred focus on issues that reflect international concerns and have been unreported or under-reported in the mainstream media. Students are mentored by Pulitzer Center grantee journalists as well as Pulitzer Center staff. This opportunity awards $6000 and is open to all class years.

Pilot project grants are designed to support individuals and groups of students who wish to link their academics with action in a small scale or short term project with its own mission, goals, and objectives. Such projects could include feasibility studies; assessment of community assets, interests, and needs; prototyping or testing a new product, service, or program etc. in the US or elsewhere in the world. Awards a $6000 stipend plus project expenses if needed. This opportunity is open to first-years, sophomores, and juniors — both individuals and teams of students can apply.

The ChesterSemester Program is an interdisciplinary program on social change with an engaged scholarship (ESCH) internship component. The purpose of the program is to facilitate committed student engagement with visionary leaders in the city of Chester and focuses on critically understanding and helping to ameliorate some of society’s most pressing real-world problems by requiring students to participate in civic volunteer programs throughout the academic year. This fellowship awards students an academic credit for the fall and pays students for hourly internship work in the spring. This opportunity is open to all class years.

While at Swarthmore College, students initiate their own social impact projects with the support of programs like the Lang Opportunity Scholarship Program. The intention of this post baccalaureate program -- the Lang Social Impact Fellowship (LSIF) -- is to empower recent alumni to continue their projects by engaging stakeholders in systems change activities. Key features of LSIF include: mentoring, training, and funding. Awards are $27,000 per Fellow and is open to Swarthmore College alumni who have graduated in the past few years aged 25 years old and under.