Mini Grants
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) offers competitive funding for faculty, staff and graduate student projects that promote equal access to opportunities and support the advancement of all university community members. The 2025-2026 Academic Year cycle is closed.
After Funding
If your proposal has been funded, you must use the funds by December 17, 2026. You must also provide an electronic summary (such as a PowerPoint presentation) to the Commission by that date. CSW may also request a brief oral presentation of your project outcomes at a meeting or event.
*If you plan to expend funds after the new fiscal year begins on July 1, 2026, please check with your business office to make sure funds can be rolled over.
2026 Recipients
- Health, Dignity, and Access: A Women's Health Service-Learning Pilot (School of Health Professions)
- Women's Herstory Month (Student Cultural & Engagement Hub)
- Surveillance Cultures Speaker Series (Public and Applied Humanities)
- Artist Seminar - Woman Photographers Re-imagining the Southwest Landscape (School of Art)
- Grad CAFE Community Leaders & Research Team Retreat (Educational Policy Studies & Practice)
- Psychology Career Track Unit Peer Mentoring Kickoff (Psychology)
- Collaborative Learning and Planning to Meet the Teaching Workforce Needs of Yuma and Rural Partners (Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies)
- The Tucson Studio, Community and Music at the Heirloom Farmers Market (Arizona Arts Live)
- Promoting Equitable Student Involvement in Fieldwork (School of Natural Resources and the Environment)
- "Tools for the Undercommons" Speaker Series (Public and Applied Humanities)
- Home Sweet Home (Student Learning & Engagement)
- Space, Face, and Place: Designing Environments for Psychological Respite and Advocacy (School of Art)
- Leadership Through an Intersectional Lens: Minority Women's Perspectives in Higher Education (UAGC College of Integrative Learning)
2025 Recipients
- Lavender Scholars Program Launch (W.A. Franke Honors College)
- IDEALS WISE WORKSHOP: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Actionable Leadership and Strategy Workshop in Information Science Education (School of Information)
- Bridging Borders (BB): Honoring Interdisciplinary Talents (W.A. Franke Honors College)
- Celebrating the History of Women: A Panel Discussion (College of Medicine - Tucson)
- WIAS Beyond the License: Architecture Careers Uncovered (College of Architecture, Planning, & Landscape Architecture)
- Fostering Community and Belonging to Bolster the Undergraduate Psychology Exploration Program (Psychology)
- Kind Cats Science of Kindness Community Engagement Materials for Festival of Books and Beyond (Kind Cats)
- Advocating for Bilingual and Culturally-Responsive Higher Education (ABC Higher Ed) (W.A. Franke Honors College & Office of General Education)
- Bring Joy into #AdminLife (English)
- Virtual Writing Retreat: Mindfulness as Writing Tool (Writing Skills Improvement Program)
Previous Awardees
- WIMS Networking Event: Excellence in Women in Medicine and Science (Facilities Management/BioCOM)
- Writing Workshops for International Women Writers (Writing Skills Improvement Program)
- Women of Color Career Connections Program (Bartlett Academic Success Center)
- The Women in Healthcare Networking Panel (WISE)
- NACADA Region 10 conference presentation (College of Education)
- University of Arizona Women of Impact Program Expansion (Office of Research, Innovation, and Impact)
- Women in STEM Mentorship Program Closing Event (WISE)
- The Healthcare Provider’s Role in the Prevention and Identification of Human Trafficking and How to Provide Trauma Informed Care (College of Medicine - Tucson)
- VIRTUAL Grad CAFE Pilot (Graduate Center)
- A Campaign to Improve Career Outcomes for First-Generation Students (LRDSH Programs Student Engagement)
- Baby Changing Station UAPD (Police Services)
- Bartlett Academic Success Center Lactation Room (Center for Academic Advising)
- Black Joy Series (Honors College)
- Community of Engagement in Agricultural and Applied Economics (AG Econ Local Programs)
- Down to Business: Black Students' Experience at a Business College (Bcom)
- Evaluating the role of the micro biome in burn patients at a burn center (Surgery)
- Graduate Communities for Academic Fellowship and Efficacy (CAFE) (PC Fellows Club)
- Reading Group: Women in the diaspora (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Reducing Health Disparities Among the LGBT+ Community: How to Provide the Best Care for Your Patients (OCME Administration)
- Refugee Clinic Educational materials and supplies (Family & Community Medicine)
- The Impact of Hair Narratives on Black Adolescent Identity Development (Special Education)
- Unspoken penalties: Examining academic parents' decisions to use - or not use - extended parental leave (English)
- Building Women in STEM Leaders through Geoscience Outreach (WISE)
- Patching the Legal Pipeline: Increasing Interest in Advanced Legal Careers Among Underrepresented University of Arizona Students (PSYCH)
- Reproductive Health Access by Design (Enrollment Services)
- Digital safety and security for women and BIPOC (Journalism)
- Implementation of a Pilot STI Testing and Education Program at a Free Clinic (College of Nursing)
- Perceptions of Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Among COM-T Students and Faculty (OCME)
- Increasing Gender Inclusivity in Data Science (School of Information)
- Mothers of Color in Academia (MOCA) Virtual Writing Retreat (Mexican American Studies)
- Association for Women in Mathematics Annual Diversity Workshop (Department of Mathematics)
- Inclusivity in Innovation at the UA Women's Hackathon (UA Libraries)
- Launching Your Career Symposium (UA Women in Optics)
- Policy Changes to Mitigate Unconscious Bias in Faculty Development (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
- Professional Development Seminar Series (UA Graduate Women in Science)
- Recentering Growth: Creative and Professional Workshops for Writers at the Margins (Creative Writing Program, Department of English)
- Regional Gender and Women's Studies Network Meeting 2019 (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)
- Surgeon Lactation Room (Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine – Phoenix)
- Women's Initiative for Leadership in the Outdoors (UA Campus Recreation)
- Women in STEM Student Council (Women in Science and Engineering Program)
- Workshop on Middle Eastern & South Asian Women and Campus Visibility (School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies)
- Women Tribal Scholars on Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Resource Management (School of Natural Resources and the Environment)
- TIME'S UP Healthcare (College of Medicine – Tucson)
- Rejuvenation of Mind, Body and Spirit for Professional-Personal Life Balance (Family and Community Medicine)
- Racism Awareness and Unlearning Workshop (UA Presents/ Arizona Arts)
- Social Justice Symposium 2018: Power & Privilege—Tackling Microaggressions in Public Health (Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health)
- Native Women in Governance Speaker Series (Native Nations Institute)
- Targeted Support for Women on the STEM Pipeline (Women in Science and Engineering Program)
- Social Sciences Lactation Room (Social & Behavioral Sciences Administration)
- The Unconscious Bias Project Workshop (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)