The Jefferson Trust

grant seekers, working on your annual grant Letter of Inquiry (LOI) or proposal? Read our helpful hints.

Annual Cycle Tips - The Jefferson Trust UVA grant seekers, working on your proposal or considering applying for a Jefferson Trust grant?

Looking for new reading material? Catch-up on grants recently featured in the news!

Grant Projects in the News - The Jefferson Trust Our grantees have been busy!

20 Years of Grantmaking 🔸🔹 In 2006, the Trust awarded $296,821 to seven projects, including $21,000 to the College Advising Seminar (COLA) Program, offering one-credit, graded seminars open to all new first-year students in the College of Arts and Sciences. COLA has grown to 60 classes that reach more than 1,000 students each year.

grant seekers: You have one week to submit your annual grant Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to potentially receive feedback and resubmit.
After September 1, you can still submit (until October 1).

Questions? Visit https://bit.ly/3O2kLaO to review our grant guidelines.

grant seekers: consider these hints as you’re working on your LOI and proposal.

Questions? Visit https://bit.ly/3O2kLaO to review our grant guidelines, application timeline, or schedule a meeting with our Director of Grants (Amy).

Impact, weird, wild ideas that will break the mold!

Consider these guidelines as you’re working on your LOI and grant proposal.

20 Years of Grantmaking 🔸🔹 About Us.

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grant seekers: save the date(s) and work on your LOI now! (Hint: submissions before September 1 may be invited to edit and resubmit.)

Review our grant guidelines, begin your LOI, or schedule a meeting with our Director of Grants at: https://bit.ly/3O2kLaO.

grant seekers: Have a crazy idea or want to radically expand an existing program? Check out an overview of our Annual Grants Cycle.

A new fiscal year kicked off a few weeks ago, and this new year marks a milestone for the Jefferson Trust – 20 Years of Grantmaking! 🔸🔹

Throughout the next year, we are eager to share the impact of Trust grants, hear from past projects, and share visions for the future.

What is your big, wild idea that will enrich the student experience and advance ? We want to hear it in our 2024-25 Annual Cycle, open now!

Visit https://bit.ly/3O2kLaO to begin your Letter of Inquiry (LOI).

“Developing Future Leaders in Autism Healthcare Through Emergency Medical Training” received a flash grant in 2022 to develop and distribute Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) autism response training to emergency professionals.

The program’s success has resulted in additional funding for training expansion, increased partnerships, nationwide inquiries about the program, and a new Virginia law.

Autism Training for First Responders Expands Across Virginia A successful program piloted by UVA and the Thomas Jefferson EMS Council sparked a new law and a grant to train emergency personnel.

Personal Narrative - The Ethical Accordion Nurse practitioner Janice Lavoie on her lifelong love affair with the accordion, what she calls the most 'ethical instrument.'

July 1 means there are less than two weeks left to view MADAYIN at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia! The exhibition is open until July 14.

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala | The Fralin Museum of Art One of the most significant touring exhibitions of Aboriginal Australian art ever staged returns to the city where it was first envisioned. Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala features more than 50 masterpieces of ochre painting on eucalyptus bark, many of whi...

Cville Tulips received an annual grant in 2023, bringing student volunteers together with local refugee women and their children to support English instruction, digital literacy, and youth programming. 🔗 Hear updates about the program from a recent NBC29 Community Conversation.

Community Conversation: Danait Haddish with Cville Tulips (5-6-24) Danait Haddish with Cville Tulips

Earlier this spring, two large puppets named Celeste and Kiki paraded around Grounds as part of the SW2 Festival of the Moving Creature, funded by a flash grant from the Alumni Association's The Jefferson Trust!

Go behind the scenes of the festival: https://news.virginia.edu/content/these-creatures-moved-and-grooved-grounds

Starr Hill Pathways kicked off their summer programming this week! We're excited to see the various activities and enrichments Scholars will be participating in over the next few weeks!

Two grad students previously received a flash grant to assist with preserving the historic library card catalog system for future research.

To learn more about the historical significance of the card catalog system, check out a recent UVA Today feature.

The Last Card Catalog in the Library This old-school tool helps people discover University history.

“The Green Book” was created as a travel guide from 1936 – 1966, listing safe places for traveling African Americans to stay across the country.
A 2021 flash grant recipient, read about the project’s growth and progress.

Architecture of the Negro Travelers’ Green Book The 2018 Academy Award-winning film Green Book opened a lot of eyes to the brutal realities of what it meant to live and travel as a Black American in the 1950s and 60s. It also provided a boost to a project that was started by three architectural historians who first met at the UVA School....

The Trust was an early supporter of the Darden Prisoner Reentry Education Program (in 2013!), and we are thrilled to see their growth, continued impact, and partnership with other institutions.

Agreement Takes Program for the Incarcerated Nationwide The Darden School of Business’s jail education program will join forces with similar efforts at other universities under a new consortium agreement.

The Air Force ROTC received a flash grant this spring to increase virtual reality flight simulator training for cadets. 🔗 Learn more about the expanded impact and training opportunities.

Air Force ROTC Expands Flight Opportunities for Cadets The Alumni Association’s Jefferson Trust has funded flight simulators for the University’s Air Force cadets.

Nursing Narratives captures the voices, experiences, and opinions of UVA nurses (including students, faculty, and alumni). 🔗 Read insights from three nurses in the spring edition of the Virginia Nursing Legacy.

Nursing Narratives UVA nursing students write about the intersection of the creative arts and nursing in this Jefferson Trust-funded section.

UVA alumni, attending Reunions this weekend? Be sure to check out MADAYIN at the Fralin Museum during your visit!

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala | The Fralin Museum of Art One of the most significant touring exhibitions of Aboriginal Australian art ever staged returns to the city where it was first envisioned. Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala features more than 50 masterpieces of ochre painting on eucalyptus bark, many of whi...

Congrats to the team behind the MIST (Misinformation Susceptibility Test, developed and validated by Maertens, Gotz, Golino et al., 2023) for their feature on Morning Joe!
This test measures people’s capacity to discern between AI generated fake news and real news headlines, and is also part of the UVAi Vanguard Project.

Young voters are worse at identifying misinformation, study shows NBC News' Morgan Radford sits down with young voters to see how able they were to spot misinformation.

Smiles & Spatulas is a student-led cooking program aimed to empower adults with Down Syndrome, teaching kitchen safety, cooking basics and general nutrition.

A 2024 flash grant recipient, this pilot program offers volunteer opportunities for students, while giving back to the local community. Follow Smiles & Spatulas on Instagram () to stay up to date on their events and news.

Read about the students' experience and impact in this pilot program, supported by the Trust.

Students Teach Business Law Classes to Incarcerated Eight University of Virginia School of Law students recently participated in a pilot program teaching business law classes to incarcerated people.