Improving Lives

Higher Education

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Through its higher education work to improve lives, The Duke Endowment places value on proven programs and strategies. As we work to advance the pursuit of educational excellence, benefit local communities and promote collaboration and innovation among faculty and students, we value established approaches with clear records of success and replicable models.

We are especially interested in efforts that leverage results through duplicating, expanding, applying or refining proven programs. We weigh the true costs and relative benefits of potential investments, and make funding decisions based on anticipated outcomes.

Possible grant requests for this application category could include, but are not limited to, programs that support local communities and vulnerable residents, or that directly improve individual students' lives.

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Application Documents -- to be submitted

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• Application: Share how your project will leverage proven strategies to improve lives.
• Budget Form: Itemize your revenue sources and related expenses for the proposed project.

In addition to the application and budget form, grantees are requested to submit:

• Brief cover letter with President's signature-acknowledges that the information included in the application is complete and accurate
• Any supplemental materials that you feel may be helpful to the Endowment in evaluating your request

Application Resources -- for reference

• User Guide: Understand Endowment objectives and effectively frame your application.
• Sample Application and Budget: Structure your application and budget information on this example, which is mirrored in the user guide.
• Grantmaking strategy overview: Learn about The Duke Endowments funding strategies.

Reporting Documents for Active Grants -- to be submitted

If you try to edit your answers in any of the forms, you'll find that you cannot delete individual words or sentences. If you need to edit large sections, we recommend that you create a Word document, copy your answer into that document and make changes there. You can then paste back into the original form.

• Annual Reports:
  • Report Form: Report on annual results, challenges and anticipated outcomes.
  • Budget Form: Report on annual revenue and related expenses.
• Final Reports:
  • Report Form: Report on project results, challenges and lessons learned.
  • Budget Form: Report on final revenue and related expenses.