Final Round of Mini-Grants Awarded

ACCESS+ seeks to accelerate the awareness, adoption, and adaptation of NSF ADVANCE evidence-based; gender-related;  policies, practices, and programs within and across STEM professional societies.

ACCESS+ has designated a pool of “catalytic funding” to support the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts of ACCESS+ cohort participants. The following societies have been selected to receive a mini-grant ($2,000 per society) to support their DEI work in a variety of areas.

1. The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
2. American Fisheries Society (AFS)
3. American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
4. Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
5. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF)
6. Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI)
7. Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
8. International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR)
9. Marine Technology Society (MTS)
10. National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA), Inc.
11. National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
12. North American Lake Management Society (NALMS)
13. Phycological Society of America (PSA)
14. Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
15. Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS)