Project Examples

Below are examples of current projects. We encourage projects that reflect the passion of the student proposing them, and that are innovative, impactful and feasible. Projects should be substantive (e.g., not just a few weeks over the summer), engage others in your cause, and be focused on action and service, rather than research.

Amherst College

Agostine N’dungu is utilizing a potato seed-planting project to facilitate and foster inter-ethnic cooperation and dialogue between rural ethnic groups who clashed during the 2008 election violence.

McGill University

Alex Pritz and Christian Elliott taught documentary filmmaking skills to children, living in a trash dump community in the Philippines, who will investigate waste management practices in their communities, document them, discuss findings with student peers from a school in Montreal via Skype, and get year-long advice from a panel of waste management experts.

New York University

Esa Syeed is working on a Kashmiri-based, youth-initiative accelerator to develop local capacity in Kashmir. His project aims to provide new skills, exposures, and networks to Kashmiri youth leaders, who have traditionally been excluded from development work.

Oberlin College

David Fisher's Interfaith Appalachia project provides on-the-ground and financial support for home-repair and food distribution in rural Kentucky in order to build partnerships with evangelical Christian ministries for future interfaith and environmentally focused service trips to the region.

Princeton University

Gaby Wilkerson and Amanda Rees recently returned from Bagamoyo, Tanzania, where they taught entrepreneurship and self-empowerment through public speaking to a class of pre-college girls.

Stanford University

Megan Winkelman is producing, testing, and implementing 5 interactive, tablet-based modules on mental illness to empower and educate low-income, immigrant women. She has gained approval to move forward with a pilot in clinics in Oakland and Fremont.

University of California at Irvine

Armaan Rowther is working on promoting and facilitating interfaith engagement on campus and the surrounding community through a high-level speakers series, an impact assessment to measure changes in perspectives, and the creation of a framework for continued interfaith engagement and service learning on an annual basis.