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Funding Students Working for Social Change

Established in 1961, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice.

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Our Impact

62

Years of Radical Justice Making

1112

Grantees

1567

Scholarships Awarded

4.7M

$

Scholarship Funds Awarded

About Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides financial support for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movements for liberation, self-determination and social and economic justice in their communities. Grantees are doing work characterized by an opposition to capitalism, racism/white supremacy, hetero patriarchy and gender-based violence, environmental exploitation and/or other forms of systemic harm and oppression.

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Meet the Class of 2024-25

Check out our student activists from this year's class.

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The Application Process

These need-based scholarships are awarded to students who are enrolled at a college or university or in a trade or technical program and active in progressive movements.

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Your gift to the Fund allows us to continue funding student activists working for social change.

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