Funding opportunities

Incite joins with people and organizations within and outside the university to rethink our understanding of what knowledge is, how it’s created, and how it can be used. We directly endow our partners with intellectual, financial, and administrative support through several programs.

Assembling Voices

$25,000 fellowships for US-based artists, writers, scholars, journalists, performers, activists, workers, and others with compelling ideas for public initiatives.

Applications are currently closed.

Global Change Program

Up to $25,000 grants to individuals around the world leading campaigns that assemble their communities in service of furthering democracy, equity, and justice.

Applications are currently closed.

Left Field Fund

For project ideas that don’t fit our funding programs—but fit our mission—and can be executed for $5,000 or less. The Left Field Fund Committee meets every two months to review 250-word proposals. Proposals should include a high-level budget.

Applications are currently closed.

For Columbia Faculty of Arts & Sciences affiliates

The Breakdown/(Re)generation Project

Up to $100,000 for Columbia Faculty of Arts & Sciences faculty/lecturers who propose initiatives related to breakdown and (re)generation across the social and natural worlds.

Applications are currently closed.

Incite Institute Dissertation Grant

$5,000 grants for Columbia Faculty of Arts & Sciences PhD students who recently completed their prospectus.

Applications are currently closed.

Have an idea for a project that falls outside of our funding opportunities? We’d love to hear from you.

Recipients of support who are affiliated with Columbia University will receive no indirect support.
Recipients of support (university or non-profit organizations) who are not affiliated with Columbia University may request no more than 10% of indirect cost.
The Indirect Cost rate for external recipients will be the rate established by the external funder.