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Project Grants & Faculty Support
Past Project Grants
Resident Scholars
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Project Grants
The Wayne Morse Center awards project grants each year to support community organizations, university faculty and departments, and student organizations. Awards are given to projects that stimulate and support educational events related to the Center’s current or upcoming theme of inquiry. Past awards have provided funding for new courses, conferences, symposia, community events, student projects and youth education. The maximum award is $10,000 though most awards range from $2,000 to $6,000.
2012-13 Project Grant proposals were due January 26, 2012.
View the past application and instructions
2012-13 Project Grants
- Professor Steve Wooten for a forum on Slow Money and local investing featuring Woody Tasch.
- Design/Build Program in UO Department of Landscape Architecture to enable students to work with homeless Eugenians to design and construct portable shelters.
- Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon for an interfaith education and advocacy campaign focused on “What is Good Government?”
- Oregon Center for Public Policy to bring Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities to Eugene and Portland to discuss policies to address inequality.
- Oregon Working Families Organization to conduct public education sessions in rural Oregon focused on the economic benefits of local banking and credit unions.
- Labor Education and Research Center to present a one-man play and discussion called “Tom Paine’s Democratic Revolution: Individual Liberty and the Common Good.”
- Professor Tom Lininger and the UO Honors College to support college classes for local high school students on no-school days
- Oregon Student Foundation to support a workshop on student debt at the Oregon Students of Color Conference.
- We the People Eugene for a Democracy School in Eugene in collaboration with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, to examine how to challenge corporate power.
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