2025 GRANT RECIPIENT
Keyla Serafin
Simmons University
- Award date
- Award amount
- $1,000
Preserved from our original 2025 winner announcement.
2026 NO-ESSAY AWARDThe project desk
Suneet Singal Grant
Good questions. Useful skills. A first step.
Suneet Singal Grant was founded by Suneet Singal and offers a $1,000 no-essay education award for eligible undergraduate and graduate students at accredited U.S. colleges and universities.
Connect what you study to something you can contribute with optional project guides and planning tools.
01 / PURPOSE02 / PLAN03 / PRACTISE
THE NEXT STEPFrom a field of study
to a useful experiment.
to a useful experiment.
Program notice 2026: $1,000, no essay, minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and random selection among verified eligible applicants. Applications are open.
Read 2026 rules and dates ↗THE SUNEET SINGAL GRANT / PAST WINNERS
Part of our
Grant story.
Celebrate a past recipient of the Suneet Singal Grant. Each announcement keeps its original year, university, award date and amount.
Explore the award historyA more practical kind of preparation
Give your ideas
some working space.
Connect your field of study with a contribution you would like to make. These optional resources help you explore that connection through specific questions, realistic plans and honest evidence. The 2026 Grant application requires no essay or project proposal.
Use the tools for your own learning. They do not determine eligibility, write your application or promise an award.
Open your project desk
One idea. Three useful tools.
01 / FIND YOUR WHYConnect your major
Plan a project
Put the numbers
Connect your major
to your purpose.
Capture the experience that interests you, a skill to develop and a possible contribution.
Open the reflection planner →02 / MAKE IT PRACTICALPlan a project
you can finish.
Define a manageable question, the resources it needs and evidence you can honestly report.
Read the project guide →03 / KNOW WHAT IT NEEDSPut the numbers
on the page.
Estimate costs, separate confirmed funding from requests, then download your budget.
Use the budget planner →A first project, made concrete
Start smaller.
Learn something real.
An education student wants to practise explaining study techniques. A first step could be a single workshop, a simple worksheet and feedback on which instructions need to be clearer.
That gives the student something to plan, something to test and a useful question for the next attempt.
Work through the illustrative example ↗A study skills
workshop.
- Start with
- One session and one worksheet
- Learn about
- Explaining a process clearly
- Observe
- Where participants need help
- Estimate
- $84 in illustrative expenses
Planning example only. No actual program result or funding award is represented.
Read. Think. Try something.
Ideas for your next step.
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The person behind the name
About Suneet Singal.
Suneet Singal has a professional background in real estate and corporate finance. His past executive roles include chief executive officer of FC Global Realty Incorporated and acting chief executive officer of First Capital Investment Corporation.
Read about his professional background at First Capital.
Read Suneet Singal’s biography ↗The program, clearly explained
Find the facts
before you apply.
Read the 2026 no-essay rules, cumulative GPA requirement and random-draw process. Earlier essay requirements remain historical.