Madison Trust: Innovators Making an Impact
Madison Trust 2023: The top 10 faculty-, staff-, and student-led innovations will be selected for presentation to our panel of philanthropic investors this coming spring. Our submission portal is now open.
Deadline: November 18, 2022
The next Madison Trust innovation funding event will be held on March 10, 2023, both on campus and on Zoom.
Meanwhile, download these helpful documents:
- Slide deck from the information sessions
- Madison Trust grant application preview (serves as a worksheet for proposal)
- Accessing, Tracking, and Spending Funds Awarded Through Madison Trust
JMU innovators who present their program, project or research reap the triple benefit of
- support for budgets up to $25K with a Madison Trust grant,
- assistance with positioning your innovation so you can seek other gifts or grants, and
- introductions to colleagues at JMU who can help you find and pursue still more funding opportunities
For Current-Year Awardees
Access Project FundsRead the projects update sent to donors in April 2022:
See updated project totals:
One of many innovations making a difference: With funding through Madison Trust, Dr. Bill Ritchie developed a student-run operation to collect, store, and ship durable medical equipment that would otherwise go to waste in the U.S. And with a growing network of partners, they have expanded to serve both Ethiopia and the Ukraine.
Madison Trust History
- Inaugural event November 2014
- Over 25 units represented through faculty, staff and student presenters
- Nearly 170 proposals submitted seeking over $2.7 Million
- 77 investors have participated in person since 2014
- More than 200 faculty, staff and student presenters representing 91 unique projects
- $924,884 and counting in private funding
