RFE Logo.png The Rich Family Endowment Grant Program provides Houston community contacts and priorities, curriculum on civic professionalism and ethical engagement, alumni mentorship, and funding to student leaders for civically engaged projects. Community partners put forward issue focus areas for which they are seeking student-led project proposals that will involve mobilizing fellow students to build the capacity of the organization. Applicants (in partnerships or small groups) will select a community partner and identified need area from the application form and propose a correlating project idea they would like to work on throughout one semester in preparation for implementation the following summer or semester.

The selected cohort of student leaders will then be supported throughout the development of their project with bi-weekly workshops, alumni mentorship, and collaboration with their community partner. Workshops will be focused on critical philanthropy from the benefactors’ and participants’ perspective of the process, effective strategies for mobilization and leadership of peers, and ensuring ethical and effective project development.

To learn more about the RFE Program, check it out here.