Luce/ACLS Civic Education for Democratic Life (CEDLife) Grants

The Luce/ACLS Civic Education for Democratic Life (CEDLife) Grants is a competitive grant competition to identify and support the scaling up of existing exemplary university programs that engage community members, undergraduate students, and faculty in co-creating civic knowledge. The program funds curricular and partnership models in the humanities or interpretive social sciences that prepare students for collaborative participation in democratic life. Five exemplary programs will be selected for support and national attention to scalable models of inclusive civic education.

Support (grants) to scale up selected exemplary civic-education university programs; national visibility for replicable models.

Applicants are existing university programs that engage community members, undergraduate students, and faculty in curricular civic-education activities in the humanities or interpretive social sciences. The program seeks projects that can be scaled up and replicated nationally.

Submit a Letter of Intent (LOI); invited applicants will be invited to submit full applications. ACLS program officers will hold office hours to answer questions.