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The Flowers Fund Grant

In November of 2017, HRE USA established the Flowers Fund in honor of HRE USA founding member, Nancy Flowers. 

Every year, the Flowers Fund provides small grants to support innovation and mentorship in human rights education (HRE) in the United States. The fund aims to encourage new philosophic and theoretical thinking, new pedagogies, and new outreach methods for HRE, as well as emerging leadership in the field.

The Flowers Fund will consider applications in areas such as research in human rights education, travel to attend HRE conferences, encouragement of emerging leadership, and innovative projects that expand the scope and understanding of HRE and/or extend the audience for HRE.

Grants of up to $1000 will be made for projects to individuals and organizations that are members of HRE USA.  The project should have direct relevance to human rights education in the United States and be completed during the upcoming Academic year.

For more information on eligibility guidelines, please read the Flowers Fund Grant Guidelines.  Applicants might include:

  • undergraduate and graduate students
  • current and retired teachers at any academic level
  • staff members of organizations engaged in human rights education
  • human rights activists

The deadline for the 2022-23 Flowers Fund Grant Applications is September 15, 2022. 

>> Grant Application Form

For further inquiries, please contact Kristi Rudelius-Palmer

Donations to support the Flowers Fund can be made online or checks can be made out to the Center for Transformative Action and mailed to the Center for Transformative Action, Attn: HRE USA Flowers Fund Grant, P.O. Box 760, Ithaca, NY 14851.

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We are grateful for the generous support of our members, individual donors, and The Puffin Foundation Ltd
The core values of HRE USA and its partner organizations include transparency and critical thinking skills. We believe that human rights--and human rights education--belong to everyone, and that the full realization of human rights means that access to human rights education materials must never be conditioned upon the subscription to any particular religious faith, ideology, political affiliation, or membership in any particular organization and that any organizational connections should be openly acknowledged.