Apply for a Grant

All applications must include:

• A short cover letter on institutional letterhead signed by the principal investigator(s), which provides a statement of the problem, the project, and its importance to your institution and to health professions education
• Macy Priority Area (check one or more):
• Promoting diversity, equity, and belonging
• Increasing collaboration among future health professionals, with an emphasis on developing exemplar teams
• Preparing future health professionals to navigate ethical dilemmas
• Names and qualifications and contact information of those who would carry out the project
• Organizational information
• Brief description of the project goals and design
• Description of expected accomplishments, outcomes, and measurement/evaluation strategies
• Estimated total budget request and sources of co-funding, if relevant
• Up to two supporting documents, if relevant
• Grant checklist

All applications must be completed and submitted online. You may return to your online application as often as you like prior to submitting it. Once you have submitted your application online, it cannot be reopened.

Preview the application for a President’s Grant prior to registering for an account.

Within two months of submission, you will receive a request for more information or a decision about your proposal.

If you have any questions about this process, feel free to contact us via email at: applications@macyfoundation.org

Grants are made only to tax-exempt institutions or agencies—no grants are made directly to individuals. We do not consider requests for general support, endowments, equipment, construction or renovation projects, capital campaigns or activities conducted outside the United States and its territories.

We support projects that:

• Align with our priority areas.
• Directly engage learners.
• Demonstrate impact beyond local benefit.
• Generally are demonstration and evaluation projects (not formal research).
• Preferably are focused on the clinical learning environment.

Grant applications are evaluated on these key dimensions:

• Relevance to Macy’s three priority areas.
• Significance and timeliness.
• Generalizability, scalability, and potential for spread.
• Sustainability after period of project support ends.
• Evidence of co-creation with learners (preferred).
• Focus on the clinical learning environment (preferred).

We are interested in projects that focus on medical students, medical residents, undergraduate nursing students, and/or graduate nursing students, as well as learners in other health professions.

We are interested in projects that focus on the clinical learning environment.