Grants & Fellowships

The Braden Storytelling Grant

Each year, the Stanford Storytelling Project awards Braden Grants to a small number of students to support the research, writing, and production of audio documentaries. The aim of the program is to help students learn how to tell powerful, research-driven stories based on testimony they gather through interviews, research, or oral history archives.

The Story Pharmacy Grant

The Stanford Storytelling Project, in collaboration with the Life Design Lab, is working with an inaugural cohort of student grantees to develop a new public resource: a large, curated collection of stories that have helped people meet significant challenges in their lives.  The stories will be organized by conditions they helped meet—loneliness, heartbreak, exhaustion, e.g.—and they will be shared by and reflected upon by the person the story helped. The goal of the pharmacy is to help people experience the way stories can nourish and guide us, even become companions for navigating our lives. 

The Dalai Lama Fellowship

The Dalai Lama Fellowship at Stanford is a year-long program that gives students the opportunity to develop inner resources and skills to lead social change. Fellows learn an approach to leadership that sees it as a set of capacities that allow one to meet the world authentically— capacities such as self-awareness, compassion, and imagination.