Career Services Calendar

Davis Projects for Peace (Info Session)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

4:30-5:30PM in 28 West (new home for SEEDS, Residence Life, and Community Safety)

Care about peace?  Want to do something meaningful this summer?  Would $10,000 help you make that happen?

In its second year, Davis Projects for Peace, is an invitation for undergraduate students (including current seniors) to design grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2008.  The projects judged to be the most promising and do-able will be funded at $10,000 each.  The objective is to encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and tryout their own ideas for building peace.

Intentionally, no clear definition is offered so as not to limit the imagination. Students should define for themselves what a “project for peace” might be. The funding foundation hopes to encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The overall program (all 100 projects) is to be worldwide in scope and impact, but specific projects may be undertaken anywhere and as grassroots as desired, including in the U.S. Groups of students from the same campus, as well as individual students, may submit proposals.

Reed is proud to participate in the Davis Projects for Peace by nominating one student proposal to the Davis foundation.  Internal applications are due January 28, 2008.  For more information on this opportunity and the application procedures, join us for an information session.  Can't make it?  Email career.services@reed.edu or seeds@reed.edu for more information.

To review successful proposals from last year, visit: http://www.kwd100projectsforpeace.org