Apply for TCRC Funding

2025 - 2026 TCRC Student Research Grants

Rolling deadline will remain open until Friday, May 1, 2026 5:00 PM EST

The Tisch College Community Research Center at Tufts (TCRC) is a champion and resource for civically engaged and community-centered scholarship across all Tufts campuses. With an emphasis on community participatory and action research, TCRC advances equitable and innovative community-university research partnerships through developing resources, networks, visibility, and new opportunities for learning.
This RFP solicits requests for micro-grants to support community-engaged student research. Undergraduate and graduate students at Tufts from all disciplines are welcome to apply.

Tisch College Community Research Center Student Research Grant 2025 - 2026 RFP

2025 TCRC Seed Grants Request for Proposals - Now Closed

The Tisch College Community Research Center (TCRC) is a collaborative of community researchers, hosted at Tisch College, to help advance inclusive and multiracial democracy through community co-creation of research and knowledge. TCRC works to expand and support community research, with an emphasis on participatory approaches through partnerships between locally-based community organizations and Tufts faculty, students, and staff.

Since 2008, TCRC has provided over $300,000 in grants to promote community-engaged research across all disciplines. The TCRC 2025 Request for Proposals seeks to support and pilot new community-Tufts collaborative research projects that investigate solutions to a community-identified need.

Proposal Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2025, 5:00PM EST

Tisch College Community Research Center Seed Grants 2025 - 2026 RFP