Stories

New York, NY – Project Pericles is pleased to announce the seven college campus teams who have been selected to join the inaugural National Civic Story Lab Fellowship. Supported by the Eugene M. Lang Foundation, the Civic Story Lab empowers clusters of faculty mentors, community partners, and undergraduate students to tackle meaningful civic problems while shaping the public narratives surrounding them. Selected through a rigorous evaluation process, each campus team will receive a grant of $7,500 to support their work throughout the spring of 2026. As part of the Fellowship, teams will strengthen student civic agency, build sustainable community partnerships, and showcase the vital role of higher education in democratic renewal. Throughout the program, student fellows will also produce original media that documents how young people are contributing to local, grassroots changemaking. “The Civic Story Lab Fellowship is grounded in a critical premise: who tells civic stories matters,” said Sanda

The Mellon Foundation has awarded Project Pericles support for a new three-year initiative, Civic Prosperity Through Humanities-Based Learning: Deepening Local Impact with National Vision. Building on a prior three-year Mellon-funded program, which reached over 6,500 students across more than 100 institutions with 85% reporting stronger civic engagement, this initiative will deepen local impact, broaden national reach, and strengthen the networks that make this work possible.