Global Change Program Information Session #1 - Incite at Columbia University

Learn about Incite Institute's new Global Change Program, which provides $10,000 - $25,000 USD to changemakers around the world.

Through the Global Change Program (GCP), Incite Institute provides $10,000 to $25,000 USD grants to leaders of initiatives that engage communities to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. In addition to funding, grantees receive intellectual support from Incite and other centers at Columbia University.

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Founded in 2023, the Global Change Program is a grant initiative designed to support individuals around the world who are leading projects or campaigns that further our mission by placing assembly at the center of efforts to make societies more just and equitable.

Communities around the world are confronting critical challenges in a number of areas, including climate change, education access, interstate conflict, public health crises, and data transparency. Incite’s Global Change Program supports activists, scholars, organizers, artists, and others working with communities most directly challenged by such issues. GCP supports leaders working within these communities to lead initiatives that bring innovative, knowledge-based solutions—derived from academic research and/or from personal or community experience—to a specific challenge.

GCP awardees receive financial assistance from $10,000 to $25,000, along with intellectual support from Incite, including help with project design and with collaborating with a Columbia center or institute of their preference. Incite commits to amplifying GCP projects through its own network of scholars, researchers, and activists.

In 2023, GCP pilot grant supported Allison Benson-Hernandez of Re-Imagenemos, an organization fostering the country’s first national-level discussion of inequality through a series of community conversations across Colombia. Through these discussions, hundreds of people from different social backgrounds and professional perspectives will worked together to build an agenda of community-led initiatives on inequality.

Read more about Allison’s GCP grant experience here.