Community Scholars
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Welcome to the Community Scholars Program!
We partner with local non-profit organizations, connecting them with faculty and campus resources to support their missions. Each year, the Intersectional Humanities Initiative offers a $2,500 grant to help organizations complete a community-based project. Every grant cycle has a unique theme that organizations can align with. Join us in making a difference!
2024-25 Community Scholar Theme: "How Do We Build Community in the Post-COVID Social World?"
Non-Profit Organizations + Community Programs
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Austin Bat Cave
Austin Bat Cave is a creative community. Our writing programs empower students to find their voices and tell their stories. They believe in the power of words.
Xochitl Gonzalez
Program Director, Austin Bat Cave
xochitl@austinbatcave.org
24-25 Fellowship Project:
Funding for this project would go towards purchasing interviewing equipment as well as the cost of printing at least one inaugural edition of the Early College Chronicles at Del Valle High School. Del Valle, Texas is the largest land parcel gifted to Travis County.
With over 3,000 students attending the only high school in this greater Austin area, there has never been a student-led newspaper launched in the district, until now.
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Red Salmon Arts
Red Salmon Arts is a 501(c)3 grassroots cultural arts organization dedicated to the development of emerging writers and the promotion of Chicana/o/x/Latina/o/x/Native American literature, providing outlets and mechanisms for cultural exchange, and sharing in the retrieval of a people’s cultural heritage with a commitment to social justice.
Lilia Rosas, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Red Salmon Arts
lrosas@resistenciabooks.com
24-25 Fellowship Project:
Through our 2024 Día de los Muertos community garden project, we will invite community members from the Montopolis area, the historic and ongoing Brown, Black, and Indigenous neighborhoods of South and East Austin neighbors as well as the diasporic burgeoning BIPOC communities of surrounding Austin to build pop up altares to ancestors with flowers (cempasuchiles, mano de leon, amaranth) they handpick from our very own Resistencia Community Garden.
Families, friends, relatives, and neighbors will be encouraged to leave pictures and offerings for their loved ones in exchange of children's books (copies of Día de los Muertos kid books), native pollinator seed mixes, and cempasuchil flowers for their own family altares/altars at home.
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Con Mi Madre/ With my Mother
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Con Mi MADRE is a non-profit organization serving the Central Texas region.
Johanna Moya-Fabrega, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Con Mi Madre
johanna@conmimadre.org
24-25 Fellowship Project:
The Somos El Futuro/ We Are the Future Leadership Track, part of Con Mi MADRE, is a transformative program designed to empower young girls and their families from 6th grade through college.
Through a series of workshops, participants explore various topics, including career exposure, educational opportunities, physical and mental health, civic engagement, healthy relationships, and internship opportunities. These sessions provide practical skills and guidance to help young girls navigate their personal and academic journeys.
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Interested in the Intersectional Humanities Community Scholars Program?
We welcome applications year-round! Please note that we review grant requests once every 12 months, usually before the next academic year. Preference is given to non-profit organizations based in the Greater Austin area, operating within the five-county metropolitan region of Central Texas.
If you have questions, please reach out to Rachel V. González-Martin, Ph.D. at rvgonzal@austin.utexas.edu.
Associate Director for Intersectional Humanities - The Humanities Institute | The University of Texas at Austin
