ESG partners with MIT’s Priscilla King Gray Center for Social Impact (PKG Center) to fund social impact projects outside the confines of the Institute. Awards of up to $7,500 are granted to ESG students to fund projects that:

• Serve communities in need, either in the United States or abroad.
• Are conducted during the summer break (June–August).
• Have a hands–on educational component or involve small–group learning and peer–to–peer teaching.

All interested ESG first–year students, sophomores, or juniors are invited to apply. Recent projects include:

• Providing chess education for underserved youth in New York City.
• Developing STEM curricula for schools in rural Oklahoma.
• Designing an app to assess Black maternal health outcomes.
• Working to bring education and technology to incarcerated individuals in the Greater Boston area.
• Creating a voice–to–text–to–braille system to aid the deaf and blind.
• Building a library for a grade school in Nepal.

You can find a set of guidelines for project proposals on the PKG Center website here.

Applications are due March 17 at 9 am and should be submitted directly to the PKG Center. We strongly encourage you to speak with Bettina McGimsey about any project you are considering.