Spend spring semester improving Boston

Have a great idea that will improve the City of Boston? All full-time Boston University students in good academic standing are eligible for a new funding initiative sponsored by Santander that will give them the money to put those ideas into motion!

The Santander Urban Impact Microgrant Program was developed to spark creativity, foster innovation, and provide Boston University students with seed funding to support their good ideas. The program will provide micro-grants between $1,000 and $3,000 to BU students to launch projects in the City of Boston that touch on the following areas: Youth Engagement, Urbanization, Race and Diversity, Smart City, or Urban Health.

Partnership with the City of Boston and commitment to its citizens and diverse neighborhoods has long been woven into the fabric of BU. Our students regularly volunteer in the community and many have used the city as a living laboratory to try out their novel ideas, inventions, and even new businesses. We want to push them to work with the community and community partners to develop real applications for academic learning rather than making a living, breathing place with real people and real stakes seem like a sandbox.

Santander shares BU’s commitment to the City of Boston and through this pioneering Urban Impact Microgrant Program, BU students now have financial support to get involved and put their great ideas to work for Boston and its communities.

The Santander program is being run by the Dean of Students office and the Community Service Center. Read up on the application process (not daunting at all and totally doable) and submit an application soon.