Are you passionate about creating innovative approaches to youth, tech, and wellbeing? The Center for Digital Thriving wants to support your work!
Donor Name: Center for Digital Thriving
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 03/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Center for Digital Thriving — and this Fellows program — is catalyzed by generous founding grants from the Susan Crown Exchange and Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates Company. They’ve launched this Fellows program in order to:
- Build a community of practice and mutual support with promising and/or emerging leaders
- Incubate new ideas, practices, and tools
- Support relevant research and projects on emerging topics of relevance to thriving in a tech-rich world.
The 2025 Thriving Fellows Program invites changemakers whose work can progress forward-thinking approaches to digital well-being. They invite applications for fellowship projects that specifically explore, embody, and seek to catalyze mindshifts essential for supporting youth in the digital age. These mindshifts can be aimed at:
- Adults who directly serve young people (parents, educators, clinicians, practitioners, youth organizations, etc.)
- Adults whose work impacts youth (policymakers, researchers, etc.)
- Youth themselves, shifting the ways they think and talk about tech and wellbeing.
Projects could include developing frameworks, classroom resources, clinical practices, apps, podcast series, youth-arming platforms, or other transformative approaches that build youth agency and contribute to enriching the public conversation about teens, tech, and wellbeing.
The theme of this year’s fellowship is “”Mindshifts for Youth Thriving in a Digital World.””
Funding Information
Fellows will each receive $25k to support expenses directly related to their fellowship project (e.g., time on your project, supplies, travel and registration fees for conferences/events, etc.) . These fellowships are not a full-time role; most Fellows maintain other employment while doing the fellowship.
Fellowship Period
Fellowships will run from Sept 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026.
Who is eligible?
- Applicants based in the U.S. or residents with a project based in the U.S. Please note that international projects or applicants who reside outside the U.S. are not eligible at this time.
- Individuals who are current, full-time students at the undergraduate or graduate levels are not eligible to apply at this time. This includes current PhD students. Part-time students may be eligible, depending on the circumstances; please reach out for more information.
- The Fellowship program is designed for individuals and not teams. If you plan to carry out a project with support from one or more colleagues, one application should be submitted and, if accepted, one person on your team would need to represent the project as the Fellow.
For more information, visit Center for Digital Thriving.
