The Self-Education Foundation was active from 1998-2005 as a small grassroots fund, run by young activists who raised money to give grants of $100-$500 to inspiring activism.

Read the letter about why and how we closed shop here.

We made grants to a variety of organizing efforts: homeschoolers and dropouts organizing for educational resources outside of institutions, student-led school reform, incarcerated self-educators and their supporters, independent media, and popular education projects. Read about our grantees and their work:

1999 1st round & 2nd / 1999/ 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004

On this website, you can also learn more about our history, or find resources for grantseekers, grantmakers (look here too), self-education, school reform and other youth activism , independent media, prisoner self-education.

 

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