Davis Projects for Peace Info Session
12 noon—1 p.m., Thursday, September 13
4—5 p.m., Wednesday, September 19
Gray Campus Center—D

Care about peace?  Want to do something meaningful this summer?  Would $10,000 help you make that happen?

In its second year, Davis Projects for Peace, is an invitation for undergraduate students (including current seniors) to design grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2008.  The projects judged to be the most promising and do-able will be funded at $10,000 each.  The objective is to encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and tryout their own ideas for building peace.

Intentionally, no clear definition is offered so as not to limit the imagination. Students should define for themselves what a “project for peace” might be. The funding foundation hopes to encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The overall program (all 100 projects) is to be worldwide in scope and impact, but specific projects may be undertaken anywhere and as grassroots as desired, including in the U.S. Groups of students from the same campus, as well as individual students, may submit proposals.

Reed is proud to participate in the Davis Projects for Peace by nominating one student proposal to the Davis foundation.  Internal applications are due at 12 p.m. noon on Thursday, November 29.  For more information on this opportunity and the application procedures, join us for an information session. We're offering the same session on two different days and times.  Can't make it?  Email career.services@reed.edu or seeds@reed.edu for more information.

To review successful proposals from last year, visit: http://www.kwd100projectsforpeace.org

 Check out the video made by Reed's 2009 recipients, Kirsten Mandala and Sky Macdonald on this page: http://www.reed.edu/seeds/volunteer/davispeaceprojects.html

The application for the Davis Projects will be up and available by 31 August. We will update make the link available by then.