ALUMNI GRANT
Carrie Gordon Tribute Grant
The Carrie Gordon Tribute Grant provides a grant of up to $10,000 to a Princeton in Asia Fellow or a recent alum (within five years of their PiA year) to work in Asia beyond the end of the fellowship. The funding must be used to support a public service project of the Fellow’s choice that best embodies Carrie’s spirit, enthusiasm and commitment to public service. The projects may be personal (a Vietnamese-American fellow who would like to build a library in her family's home village) or wider-ranging (a fellow in Thailand who needs support for a project to bring eyeglasses to all the students in the area in which he taught). Criteria for selection will include the project's impact, feasibility and sustainability, as well as the qualifications of the applicant.
How to Apply
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About Carrie Gordon
Whenever you talked shop with Carrie Gordon, Princeton in Asia’s late Executive Director from 1994-2003, there were a few themes that remained constant. You could expect to hang up the phone still laughing; you could count on an anecdote about an amusing cultural difference; and, above all, you knew you would get an earful about the latest achievements of PiA Alumni scattered all over the globe.
There was so much joy in her voice when she boasted about the publication of one former Fellow’s first novel or the appointment of another to head up a major NGO. This pride in the accomplishments of the PiA Fellows she handpicked to go to Asia and her unwavering belief in the importance of enabling young people to pursue their passions were defining traits of Carrie’s life, and a legacy we wish to preserve with the Carrie Gordon Tribute Grant.