Jessie Ball duPont Fund Grantees

Community Anchor Institutions

Mind: Knowledge, skills, and discernment in academic contexts

Examples include:

  • Support training for faculty to design and facilitate curricular activities that engage listening practices, multiple perspectives and model intellectual humility

  • Develop or adapt common curricular student experiences that give students structured opportunities to build skills and mindsets to listen, analyze differing viewpoints, evaluate evidence, and practice reasoned dialogue

  • Invest in rigorous research that examines your institutional historical legacies to inform more reflective, inclusive, and historically grounded institutional decision-making

Heart: Shaping institutional ethos through students

Examples include:

  • Student life-based programs that create intentional spaces for dialogue, deliberation, and facilitated conversation, enabling students to engage difference thoughtfully, practice perspective-taking, and navigate disagreement with respect, curiosity, and care

  • Student leader formation and values-based leadership development that prepare student leaders (student government officers, club presidents, student-athlete leaders, etc.) through structured training, reflection, and coaching focused on community care and the cultivation of inclusive campus culture

Place: Activating physical environments to deepen understanding, memory, and civic meaning

An example could be:

  • Reframing the campus as a learning text so that students’ engagement with place becomes a component of learning. Treating an organization’s own history, founding, buildings, landscapes, monuments, and places that can be read, interrogated, and interpreted through courses or common experiences for students

Community Anchor Institutions

The following institutions are current or historic grantees of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund that are being invited to complete the current Expression of Interest, organized by state. Participants are encouraged to consider place-based partnerships as part of their proposed projects.

    • Auburn University (Auburn)

    • National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, San Diego Chapter (San Diego)

    • Yale University (New Haven)

    • Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington)

    • Delaware Symphony Association (Wilmington)

    • Historical Society of Delaware (Wilmington)

    • Trinity (Old Swedes) Church Foundation (Wilmington)

    • National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonel David Hall Chapter (Lewes)

    • The Lewes Historical Society (Lewes)

    • University of Delaware (Newark)

    • Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)

    • National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington, D.C.)

    • Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach)

    • Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (Jacksonville)

    • Edward Waters University (Jacksonville)

    • Florida Historical Society (Cocoa Beach)

    • Florida Southern College (Lakeland)

    • Florida State University (Tallahasse)

    • Jacksonville Symphony Association (Jacksonville)

    • Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville)

    • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Florida (Jacksonville)

    • Rollins College (Winter Park)

    • Saint Leo University (Saint Leo)

    • Stetson University (DeLand)

    • University of Florida (Gainesville)

    • University of Miami (Coral Gables)

    • Agnes Scott College (Decatur)

    • Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School (Rabun Gap)

    • University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame)

    • Berea College (Berea)

    • Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville)

    • Transylvania University (Lexington)

    • Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green)

    • Nordica Memorial Association (Farmington)

    • Goucher College (Towson)

    • McDaniel College (Westminster)

    • Washington College (Chestertown)

    • Fay School (Southborough)

    • New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford)

    • Mississippi Valley State Univeristy (Itta Bena)

    • Piney Woods School (Piney Woods)

    • Stephens College (Columbia)

    • American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton)

    • Drew University (Madison)

    • Elmira College (Elmira)

    • Davidson College (Davidson)

    • Meredith College (Raleigh)

    • Old Salem Museum & Gardens (Winston-Salem)

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill)

    • Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)

    • Wingate University (Wingate)

    • University of Toronto (Toronto)

    • Drexel University (Philadelphia)

    • Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Philadelphia)

    • Shippensburg University (Shippensburg)

    • Temple University (Philadelphia)

    • University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

    • Porter-Gaud School (Charleston)

    • The Citadel (Charleston)

    • Milligan College (Elizabethton)

    • University of the South (Sewanee)

    • Saint Mary’s Hall (San Antonio)

    • San Antonio College (San Antonio)

    • Barter Theatre (Abingdon)

    • Blue Ridge School (St. George)

    • Bluefield University (Bluefield)

    • Bridgewater College (Bridgewater)

    • Christchurch School (Christchurch)

    • College of William and Mary (Williamsburg)

    • Emory & Henry College (Emory)

    • Episcopal High School (Alexandria)

    • Ferrum College (Ferrum)

    • Fork Union Military Academy (Fork Union)

    • Foundation for Historic Christ Church (Irvington)

    • Fuqua School (Farmville)

    • General Douglas MacArthur Foundation (Norfolk)

    • Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney)

    • Hollins University (Roanoke)

    • James Madison University (Harrisonburg)

    • James Monroe Memorial Foundation (Richmond)

    • Kind and Queen County Historical Society (King and Queen Court House)

    • Lancaster Virginia Historical Society (Lancaster)

    • Longwood University (Farmville)

    • Mary Baldwin University (Staunton)

    • Medical College of Virginia Foundation (Richmond)

    • Mountain Mission School (Grundy)

    • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia (Richmond)

    • Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society (Montross)

    • Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation (Brookneal)

    • Preservation Virginia (Richmond)

    • Radford University (Radford)

    • Randolph College (Lynchburg)

    • Randolph-Macon College (Ashland)

    • Scotchtown, Home of Patrick Henry (Richmond)

    • St. Catherine’s School (Richmond)

    • Stratford Hall (Stratford)

    • Stuart Hall (Staunton)

    • Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar)

    • University of Lynchburg (Lynchburg)

    • University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg)

    • University of Richmond (Richmond)

    • University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

    • University of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville)

    • Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)

    • Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (Richmond)

    • Virginia Military Institute (Lexington)

    • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)

    • Virginia Tech (Blacksburg)

    • Washington and Lee University (Lexington)

    • Woodberry Forest School (Woodberry Forest)

    • Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation (Staunton)

Tier I
Single Institution/Early-stage

Grant Term: One year

Typical Award Range: Up to $50,000

For institutions undertaking focused, internally driven work that builds readiness, tests ideas, or deepens inquiry within their own context.

Tier II
Anchored Partnership

Grant Term: Up to two years

Typical Award Range: Up to $150,000/year

For projects where one lead institution anchors the work, but success depends on one or more substantive partners contributing expertise, perspective, or reach.

Tier III
Collaborative Field Partnership

Grant Term: Up to two years

Typical Award Range; Up to $200,000/year

For deeply collaborative efforts that aim to generate shared learning, models, or tools with relevance beyond any single institution.

A note on partnerships: As part of this initiative, the duPont Fund is especially interested in learning how the collective strengths of its grantee institutions might be activated in complementary and collaborative ways. Applicants are encouraged to review the Jessie Ball duPont Fund’s current grantee institution list as they consider potential partnerships, opportunities for alignment, and possibilities for shared learning across the network.

Submission Process

Please submit your interest via this Expression of Interest form or the button below. You may download a copy of the questions here or via the button below to help as you prepare your submission. Submissions must be received by March 6, 2026. Please reach out to Sarah Reardon at sreardon@dupontfund.org with any questions.

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