Past Seed Grant Funding

2021 Seed Grant Funding

Workplace challenges are widespread, and the Women + Girls Research Alliance supports faculty research and community efforts aimed at understanding and addressing these barriers. The Alliance’s competitive grant program represents W + GRA’s efforts to support new and ongoing research initiatives to highlight issues that women and girls face in the workforce, particularly those exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 seed grant program emerged from the 2021 Women’s Summit and was predicated on a Recovery and Discovery theme and how women and girls emerged from challenges in a dual pandemic. Held in March 2021 in partnership with Ally Financial and Bank of America, six Seed grants of $5000 each were awarded to researchers during the 2021-2022 academic year to support new, or ongoing research efforts that were aligned with the Alliance’s research efforts.

2021 SEED GRANT RECIPIENTS

  • Healing and Housing During Covid: Formerly Incarcerated Women Share their Stories
  • Fostering Early STEM Exploration with Gifted/High Ability Black Girls and their Elementary Teachers
  • Identifying Mechanisms of Employment Socialization in Mother-Child Dyads
  • Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on the Economic Growth and Mobility among Women in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area
  • Keepin’ it REEL: Black Girls Film Camp Phase II
  • “We All We Got”: Supporting Home Insecure Black Mothers Summit

BLACK GIRLS FILM CAMP

Black Girls Film Camp is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides a FREE, national, and virtual 12-week experience (held once a year) where high school Black girls across the country pitch a story idea, and a final ten are selected to have their short film project produced by the program. Over 200 Black girls across the country applied for the 2022 camp and 10 finalists were selected to direct and develop their short films. The camp is an incubator for the 10 girls and each of their films.

Participants receive free technology (iPads, ring lights, wireless mics, tripods, etc.) free software (final draft and adobe premiere), a personal production team of exemplary Black women creatives (editor and creative coach) contracted out by the camp, an all-expense paid weekend retreat in LA, and free workshops from Black women that are award-winning filmmakers and Ph.D. scholars. Films created by the teen girls and their production teams are showcased live during a virtual event over the summer and at film festivals (i.e. 2021 Mill Valley Film Festival) and college events (i.e. Emory University, USC, UNC Charlotte, etc.) in the US throughout the year. Following the 12-week camp, alumni participate in international outreach events throughout the year to share their stories with the world and support other aspiring young Black girl filmmakers.

More information at https://www.blackgirlsfilmcamp.com