Wendt Grants Now Open
Grant applications for the 2025-26 academic year are now open. If you would like to apply, please contact the Wendt Center at wendt@dbq.edu to receive our updated application form and learn about our new pursuits, which the grant projects should aim to support.
Wendt Character Initiative
In alignment with the University of Dubuque's Mission, the Wendt Center for Character and Leadership's vision is to cultivate good character and lives of purpose for the common good in an ever-changing world.
Each year, the Wendt Character Initiative offers grants to faculty members leading classes or projects related to character, and which have a specific character-centered outcome.
Grant Qualifications
The Wendt Character Initiative funds a limited number of projects or events proposed by faculty and staff each year. The purpose of this funding is to enable faculty and staff to actively engage students in activities which challenge or encourage them in the area of character and ethics, and to help them reflect on and name the Initiative's character values. The outcome will be growth in character knowledge and/or character formation.
To receive funding through the Wendt Character Initiative, the proposed project or event must clearly relate to the Initiative's goal of promoting reflection on and development of good character in individuals and within the University of Dubuque's culture.
Grant applications for the 2025-26 academic year are open. If you would like to apply, please contact the Wendt Center at wendt@dbq.edu to receive our updated application form and learn about our new pursuits, which the grant projects should aim to support.
Grant Selection Schedule
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with awards made while funds remain for the academic year.
Our grant review committee meets the last Wednesday of each month and will respond to any pending grant requests within three days of that meeting. Make sure to submit your request by the last Wednesday in the month before you need the funding (you are always welcome to submit earlier than the month before as well)!