The application will ask for information on the following sections:

Student Information

The survey will ask you to input information for each student on the WIF team:

First name
Last name
Preferred name
Pronouns (if comfortable sharing)
UW ID number
@wisc.edu Email
Phone number
Major
Year in school (e.g., Sophomore, Junior)
Expected graduation term (e.g., Spring 2026)

Project Summary

Project Title
Does your project require international travel? If yes, where are you planning to go, and for how long?
Information about community partner(s) and academic advisor
Total budget amount requested

Proposal Submission

Important! This section asks for specific word count maximums or page limits. These limits are to ensure that the selection committee receives the same amount of information about every project. Applications that do not follow the stated limits may be returned to you without review.

You will upload all of this information as one document into the application. The following document types are accepted: .doc, .docx, and .pdf

Abstract (250 words or less)
Alignment of project to WIF mission (250 words or less)
Project's value to the community (250 words or less)
Community capacity (250 words or less)
How the project supports student learning (250 words or less)
Project goals, activities, and evaluation (750 words or less)
International project information (OPTIONAL, for international projects only, 250 words or less)
Timeline, budget, and budget justification (2 pages max)
Letter of Support from Community Partner
Letter of Support from Academic Advisor
Current UW-Madison transcripts

Application Template

Please use the application template to format your proposal submission. The template has guiding questions embedded as comments to help you prepare each of these sections. You can save this template to your Google Drive. The screenshot below shows the "Use Template" button you can click to save a copy.

Click the "Use Template" button to save a copy of this document to your own Google Drive.

How do I submit my application?

Check out our next section about how to submit your application.