Decolonization Grant Application Form

Transform Your Institution with Decolonization Funding

Decolonization work requires intentional investment, dedicated resources, and sustained commitment. Whether you're an educational institution, nonprofit organization, or community group, securing grant funding for decolonization initiatives can accelerate meaningful change across curriculum design, policy reform, and community partnerships.

This Decolonization Grant Application Form template helps funding organizations streamline their application process while ensuring applicants provide comprehensive information about their proposed initiatives. Built with Paperform, this template combines professional structure with the flexibility to adapt to your specific funding priorities and evaluation criteria.

Why Paperform for Grant Applications?

Grant applications often require complex information gathering, conditional questions based on project type, file uploads for supporting documentation, and clear routing to different review committees. Paperform handles all of this elegantly within a single, on-brand form experience.

With conditional logic, you can show relevant questions based on the decolonization focus area—whether applicants are working on curriculum transformation, Indigenous knowledge integration, policy reform, or multiple initiatives. This keeps the form streamlined while capturing detailed information for each project type.

The doc-style editor lets you add context, guidance, and explanatory text throughout the application, helping applicants understand what you're looking for and improving submission quality. You can embed videos explaining your funding priorities, include examples of successful projects, or link to resources about decolonization frameworks.

File upload fields make it simple to collect supporting materials—project proposals, letters of support, budget breakdowns, organizational documents, and more. All submissions are securely stored and linked to the applicant's response, creating a complete application package for your review committee.

Streamline Review and Decision Workflows

After submission, Paperform integrates seamlessly with your existing grant management processes. Send submissions directly to Google Sheets or Airtable for tracking and scoring, push applicant data into your CRM or grants management system, or ping your review committee in Slack when high-priority applications arrive.

For complex review workflows, connect your form to Stepper (stepper.io) to automate the entire grant lifecycle. Automatically route applications to the appropriate reviewers based on focus area, send acknowledgment emails with next steps, schedule interviews for shortlisted applicants, track review committee feedback, and trigger approval workflows—all without manual data entry.

Use Papersign (papersign.com) to collect signatures on grant agreements once funding is approved, keeping the entire process from application to contract in one connected system.

Built for Educational Institutions, Nonprofits, and Funding Organizations

This template is designed for foundations, educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations offering grants to support:

• Curriculum transformation initiatives that center Indigenous perspectives, decolonize course content, and reimagine pedagogical approaches
• Indigenous knowledge systems integration projects that honor traditional ways of knowing alongside Western academic frameworks
• Land acknowledgment to action programs that move beyond statements to concrete partnerships, reparations, and land-based learning
• Institutional policy reform efforts that address colonial structures in governance, hiring, research ethics, and community engagement

Whether you're a university offering internal faculty grants, a foundation funding community-led decolonization work, or a government agency supporting Indigenous-led education initiatives, this template provides the structure you need while remaining fully customizable to your specific funding priorities.

Accessible, Professional, and Conversion-Optimized

Grant applications can feel intimidating, especially for grassroots organizations and community groups who may be new to formal funding processes. Paperform's clean, accessible design reduces that barrier. You can embed the form directly on your website, share it via a custom-branded link, or host it on your own domain as a standalone application portal.

The guided mode option breaks the application into manageable steps, reducing overwhelm and improving completion rates. Auto-save functionality means applicants never lose their progress, and they can return to complete their application over multiple sessions.

With AI Insights, you can quickly analyze common themes across applications, identify gaps in your outreach to specific communities, and generate summary reports for board presentations or funder reports.

Secure, Compliant, and Trusted

Handling grant applications means managing sensitive information about organizational finances, community partnerships, and strategic initiatives. Paperform is SOC 2 Type II certified with robust security measures, data encryption, and compliance controls that meet the standards required by educational institutions and funding organizations.

Set up role-based permissions so different team members can access applications relevant to their review areas without seeing all submissions. Use data residency controls to ensure information stays in specific geographic regions when required by funding regulations.

Get Started in Minutes

This template includes all the essential sections for a comprehensive decolonization grant application—organizational information, project details, budget overview, community partnerships, and evaluation plans. Simply customize the questions to match your funding priorities, adjust the theme to match your brand, add any supplementary questions or criteria specific to your program, and publish.

Trusted by over 500,000 teams worldwide and supporting thousands of grant programs, Paperform makes it easy to create professional, accessible application experiences that help you identify and fund transformative decolonization work.

Start collecting stronger grant applications today with Paperform's flexible, no-code platform that grows with your funding program.