Ways to help

Every way to help

Six ways in. Each one puts a student into a research position they could not otherwise afford, or gets their finished work into print.

Ways to help

Fund a position
Pay a summer of rent and living costs for a student who holds an unpaid research position.
Fund a paper
Cover the journal fee that stands between finished student work and a published article.
Host or mentor a student
Labs can host a funded student. Scientists at partner companies can mentor one.
Give through a foundation
Grant programs that fund economic opportunity fit what we do. Send us the guidelines.
Refer a student
Know a student who turned down a lab because it did not pay? Send them to us.
Start a partnership
Tell us what your company wants to fund. A student on our team replies.

By who you are

Every statistic links to a named source.
We checked each journal article's DOI against the Crossref registry and requested every external link on September 21, 2026. The full list is on the sources page.
We confirm every position before we pay.
A student applies with the lab, the mentor, and the dates. We contact the lab to confirm the position exists and does not pay enough to live on.
Money goes to named costs for named students.
A gift pays rent, a stipend, books, or a journal fee for a specific student. We do not pool gifts into overhead.
We report back.
Each funder hears what its gift paid for: the kind of position, the costs covered, and what the student produced.
We stay small.
A handful of college students runs SRI. We buy no advertising and run no paid programs, so the money reaches students.