(SEPTEMBER 4, 2024) — Today, Mozilla is inviting its fellowships and awards alumni to apply for Alumni Connection Grants and continue their critical work on issues like trustworthy AI and a healthier internet.

The Alumni Connection Grants were introduced in 2023 to explore how alumni can nurture relationships with each other, connect as a network, collaborate, and share their impactful work with the world. For this 2024-2025 cohort, the total grant pool numbers $150,000 USD, with individual awards of $3,000 to $15,000. Mozilla is accepting applications through October 4, 2024.

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Past Alumni Connection Grant recipients have explored themes of bias and surveillance in AI, provided online privacy training, evolved their previous Mozilla projects, and more. Learn more about past grant recipients here.

Says Hailey Froese, Mozilla Program Officer for Alumni Engagement: “The internet, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), are at an inflection point. We urgently need structural changes that unlock the technology’s benefits and confront its harms. But Mozilla cannot do that alone — no one can. Through these grants — and our grantmaking more broadly — Mozilla is fueling a community of people and projects who can make a positive difference.”

Mozilla fellowships and awards provide funding, mentorship, and community to leaders and organizations, fueling a movement that can shift the internet and AI in a better direction. Our funding mechanisms are nimble — from small grants to full-time fellowships to donor collaboratives — to suit the movement’s needs. And our funding learnings are open-source, so like-minded thinkers can build on them.

Mozilla fellows and awardees have briefed legislatures, shaped public policy, pushed the largest tech companies to improve their products, and more. They are policymakers in Kenya, journalists in Brazil, engineers in Germany, activists in the United States, researchers in Namibia, and data scientists in the Netherlands. They are reimagining new norms, policies, infrastructure, and technologies — every single day.