Apply to Receive a Taylor Willingham Legacy Fund Grant

November 22, 2021

Accepting Grant Applications

Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund

Deadline: November 30, 2021

Applications are now being accepted from individuals who are interested in being considered to receive a Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund grant.

The Taylor L. Willingham Fund was established to honor the work of Taylor Willingham and is administered by the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI).

Throughout Taylor's public work, she encouraged countless newcomers to develop their capacity to convene and to moderate deliberative forums. In that spirit, this award is intended to support the learning and leadership of those who are relatively new to deliberative dialogue as they work to increase opportunities for Americans to examine and address public issues.

Grants are provided to individuals to enable them to develop an understanding of deliberative democracy and launch one or more deliberative dialogues in their communities and organizations in order to advance NIFI's overall mission, which is to promote public deliberation about national issues. Grants are expected to be in the range of $500-1,000.

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.