A micro grants program from Up to Us

September 27, 2021

Receive a $150 Micro Grant

Micro grants are available to eligible participants (faculty, students, and administrators) to help support the development and promotion of their event. The National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI)’s partner, Up to Us, is offering a micro grant* of $150 to moderators** who host a forum using one of the following NIF issue discussion guides:

Youth and Opportunity : What Should We Do for Future Generations to Thrive?
A House Divided: What Would We Have to Give Up to Get the Political System We Want?
A Nation in Debt: How Can We Pay the Bills?
Health Care: How Can We Bring Costs Down While Getting the Care We Need?

This program will run through June 2022.

Criteria

**Moderators must be affiliated with an accredited US-based college or university to be considered eligible for the micro grant. A micro grant is available to eligible participants (faculty, students, and administrators) to help support the development and promotion of their event.

Fill out a simple application

About Up to Us

Up to Us, an initiative of Net Impact and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, is a rapidly growing, nonpartisan movement of young people who recognize that when it comes to securing their economic and fiscal future, they have no better advocates than themselves.

Net Impact is a nonprofit that inspires and equips emerging leaders to build a more just and sustainable world. Net Impact's programs help new leaders broaden their thinking, build their networks, and scale their impact beyond just individual actions. One stand-out Net Impact program, Up to Us, is a rapidly growing, nonpartisan movement of young people who recognize that when it comes to securing their future opportunities, they have no better advocates than themselves. Up to Us is the only nationwide, campus-based campaign focused on building a sustainable economic and fiscal future for America's next generation.

About Deliberation in National Issues Forums

National Issues Forums issue guides are designed to stimulate public deliberation, which is a way of making decisions together that is different from discussion or debate. The purpose of deliberative forums is to inform collective action. As citizens, we have to make decisions together before we can act together, whether with other citizens or through legislative bodies. Acting together is essential for addressing problems that can't be solved by one group of people or one institution. These problems have more than one cause and therefore have to be met by a number of mutually reinforcing initiatives with broad public participation.

About the National Issues Forums Institute

The National Issues Forums Institute's mission is to promote the use of public deliberation in schools, colleges, civic organizations, and religious institutions in the United States. The institute's board members are volunteers drawn from leaders in government, colleges and universities, libraries, civic organizations, the media, and medicine. For more information visit www.nifi.org.