Social Studies Grant Opportunities

Applying for Grants

  • If you are a district or organization, please apply for grants through the EGMS system.
  • If you do not have an EGMS account, please review the information on the EGMS Resources & Guides page. 
    • If you work in a school district/STEC, or ESD you need to connect with your EGMS Administrator. Organizations who would like access should follow the instructions listed under "Adding a New Organization"

Contact Information

Grant programs offered through OSPI Social Studies are available through the Educational Grants Management System (EGMS) application. These grants are intended to support and enhance the teaching of civics education in the community and are designed for a specific program containing its own unique policy and application.

Civic Education Travel Grant

The Civic Educational Travel Grant was administered from 2018-2025. This grant program is no longer receiving legislative funding. All grants were for the purpose of providing travel grants to students participating in statewide, regional, or international civic education competitions or events.

The Civic Education Travel grant program was created to provide travel grants to students participating in statewide, regional, or international civic education competitions or events. Travel grants are awarded on a competitive basis and were open to all school districts and tribal schools.

The superintendent of public instruction selected grant recipients from student applicants that met all of the following criteria as per RCW 28A.300.480:

(a) Students must be residents of the state of Washington;
(b) Students must use the grants to fund travel to civic education-based competitions or events;
(c) Students must be participants in the civic education competition or event; and
(d) Students must be under the age of twenty-one and not yet have received their high school diploma.

Kip Tokuda Memorial Grant

The Kip Tokuda Memorial Grant was administered from 2020-2025. This grant program is no longer receiving legislative funding. All grants were for the purpose of establishing a legacy of remembrance as part of a continuing process of recovery from the World War II exclusion, forced removal, and incarceration of individuals of Japanese ancestry.
  • RCW 28A.300.390 - Legislative findings on the Kip Tokuda Memorial Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
  • RCW 28A.300.410 - Grant information about the Kip Tokuda Memorial Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
  • WCLPEP - Printable document detailing the Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program (WCLPEP).

The Kip Tokuda Memorial program was created to do one or both of the following:

  1. Educate the public regarding the history and the lessons of the World War II exclusion, removal, and incarceration of persons of Japanese ancestry through the development, coordination, and distribution of new educational materials and the development of curriculum materials to complement and augment resources currently available on this subject matter; and
  2. Develop videos, plays, presentations, speaker bureaus, and exhibitions for presentation to elementary schools, secondary schools, community colleges, and other interested parties.

The resources and materials created through the grant are intended to ensure that the World War II exclusion, forced removal, and incarceration of individuals of Japanese ancestry will be remembered, and the causes and circumstances of this and similar events will be addressed and understood.