Climate HQ aims to strengthen climate justice teaching, research, and outreach at SF State. Because we recognize the complexities of climate change/justice, we want to support efforts that are grounded in interdisciplinarity. As such, a key way we are supporting efforts to mitigate climate change and to address climate impacts is through interdisciplinary mini-grants that bring researchers from different fields together to address climate justice goals.
These one-time mini-grants are intended to seed and support interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activities: we are looking to award 3-6 grants from $5,000 to $14,000 each.
Important Information
Deadline for Submission: November 21st, 2025 at 5pm
About Climate HQ's Mini Grants
The Climate HQ Mini-Grants have 3 purposes:
1.To support faculty members in incorporating climate change/justice into their Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) for the first time.
2. To support faculty members who are already engaged in RSCA related to climate change/justice, to deepen their inquiries or incorporate climate change/justice in a new way.
3. To facilitate connections among faculty engaged in climate change/justice related RSCA in different ways across campus and community.
Please view the call for proposals via Box and complete the application by 5 p.m. on November 21, 2025.
Looking for faculty to collaborate with?
You can post on this forum if you are looking to find group members to work with on a Mini Grant proposal.
Looking for Ideas?
Here are some examples of completed Mini Grants Projects:
Image from Berkeley Fishing Oral History Project
Cultivating Climate Justice Engagement through Curricular Advancement: Assignment Integration and Impact Assessment
Camille Antinori and Venoo Kakar, Department of Economics, SFSU
Palina Latkova, Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism, SFSU
This project documents the rich history of shore-based fishing at the Berkeley waterfront through oral histories that span generations. By gathering interviews and personal stories, the team explores how fishing serves both as recreation and as a source of community, well-being, and sustenance. The narratives highlight how access to blue spaces is shaped by gentrification, displacement, and shoreline development, while also celebrating the cultural and intergenerational traditions that sustain fishing as a way of life.
Cultivating Climate Justice Engagement through Curricular Advancement: Assignment Integration and Impact Assessment
Yiwen Chen (Department of Marketing), Shuyi Liu (Department of Psychology), Anisha Singh (Department of Psychology)
This interdisciplinary project integrates climate justice into marketing, psychology, and statistics courses to expand students’ understanding of equity in climate change. By designing assignments ranging from social media campaigns to clinical case studies and data storytelling, the project reached over 250 students across disciplines. Results showed that students not only deepened their climate literacy but also grew more engaged, empathetic, and motivated to take action on climate justice.