The Slay Fund makes grants to projects in four broad categories: student research and internships, pedagogy for social justice, campus-wide events and speakers, and long-term programs with community partners. These funding categories coincide with the three strategic priorities of the Slay Fund, which will even more explicitly guide funding decision-making, moving forward. The strategic priorities allocate funding for: speakers and events related to social justice; capacity-building and institutional support programming; student-proposed and student-focused initiatives.

Please submit your grant proposal (and any questions relating to the proposal) to melissa.sturm-smith@drake.edu, who will be managing funding requests on an interim basis.

— Madison Bemus, Office of the Provost