We want to work with you to increase the impact and effectiveness of your issue campaign by providing resources to help you be successful. As a recipient of a Campus Progress Action Grant, you are eligible for funding, support from Campus Progress / Center for American Progress staff, access to our wide variety of organizing workshops and trainings, and contact with policy experts on your particular issue.

Campus Progress offers grants of $200 to $1,000 to students working on innovative and hard-hitting educational and advocacy campaigns. We want to help students leverage their passion, creativity, ideas, and organizing talents to create progressive change on their campuses and in their communities. Whether it's to promote clean energy on your campus; advocate for a living wage at your school or in your state; fight genocide in Sudan; etc., we want to help!

Check out some of the great campaigns we have helped with so far, and apply for an Action Grant now!

News and Reports:

• Blog Posts


• Sexy Fashion with a Social Conscience (12-8-2006)


• Living Wage at Vanderbilt – (12-1-2006)


• Texas wakes up to student spring breakers – (7-12-2006)


• MTV Attempting to Make Austin the Most Boring (2-27-2006)


• In the News


• Students Urge SCSU to Cut Greenhouse Gases (3-2-2007)


• Why LIVE Crashed the Board of Trust meeting (12-8-2006)


• Workers’ Rights not a Small Issue for University to Sweat


• MtvU Wants to Turn Spring Breakers into Action-Makers (11-30-2006)


• UM Group Still Hot Under the Collar for Sweatshop-Free Apparel (11-16-2006)


• Vanderbilt Community Coalition Rallies for a Living Wage (11-10-2006)


• Change Course (11-9-2006)


• Living Wage: Living Wage Supporters, Administration Disagree on Terms (11-7-2006)


• Darfur Campaign Cuts Sudan Money (10-7-2006)


• UNC Hosts Climate Challenge (10/6/06)


• Divesters Lose Skirmish in Sudan Battle (9-27-2006)


• LIVE Brings Moral Revolution to Vanderbilt (9-14-2006)


• Students Fast in Death Penalty Protest (7-3-2006)


• Sudan Divestment Movement Gains on Campuses (6-30-2006)


• Divestment and Sudan (4-20-2006)


• State vs. Reed’ Gaining Steam: Pair’s First Doc Becoming the Story (4-14-2006)


• Radio - Texas Matters, show 290 - listen here (3-17-2006)


• Students Work Against Death Penalty (3-15-2006)


• Wind Turbine Proposal Received Favorably, but Not Voted On (3-3-2006)


• De-funding the Genocide in Darfur (11-8-2006)


• U. Texas Student Awarded for Anti-Death Penalty Work (11-7-2005)


• Voices from Death Row’ Speak (10-27-2005)


• Sudan-Divestment Activists Get Act Together


• Unas Vacaciones Contra la Pena de Muerte


• Misc.


• Video - 2006 Anti Death Penalty Spring Break - Murder Victim Families at the TX Capitol (5-29-2006)


• Video - 2005 Anti Death Penalty Spring Break Alternative - Austin, Texas (1-31-2006)


• Students Supporting Affirmative Action's No On 2 posters