Micro grants are small, focused grants that can be accessed by our alumni to continue their design work in helping create a more equitable and innovative public education system in Washington, DC.
Micro grants for alumni.

Alumni Micro Grants
CityBridge’s mission is to incubate the people, ideas, and conversations needed for equity-driven innovation in DC’s public schools. To date, we have over 300 alumni who are doing incredible work transforming teaching and learning for DC’s children. We have heard from our alums over the past year that they want more support in continuing their design work.
Micro grants are small, focused grants that can be accessed by our alumni to continue their design work in helping create a more equitable and innovative public education system in Washington, DC.
- Alums can apply for grant funding of $1,000-$5,000 to use for aligned projects in two waves: spring 2023 or summer 2023.
- We will consider applications on a rolling basis each month and deploy these grants within 30 calendar days of being accepted. Once the funds for the wave run out, we will pause applications.
Eligible Projects:
- The purpose of these grant funds are the continuation of the design work our alums started in their CBE program. This could look like additional piloting work or projects aligned to building out and scaling your venture or school model. We are open to hearing your proposals—submit your application today. If you have lingering questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Timeline:
- We will consider applications once a month and will notify alums of their status within 30 days of their application submission.
- We launched the first wave of applications for spring 2023 projects on November 11, 2022. Applicants will be notified of decisions in January 2023.
- We will re-launch applications for the summer 2023 wave in March 2023.
Please note that Spring 2023 funds have been exhausted. Stay tuned for the Summer 2023 application.