Careers Beyond Academia has a budget for participant-initiated activities and encourages creative approaches that might combine doctoral students' and postdoctoral scholars' current research with a desired career experience. We encourage innovative, collaborative projects that are outside the box intending to broaden opportunities for participants as well as the Cornell Ph.D. and postdoctoral community at large. We hope to augment and facilitate participants' work by making opportunities available that were not otherwise accessible.

Past activities have included meeting with policymakers, organizing communication workshops, organizing panels as part of symposia, meeting industry speakers, shadowing industry professionals at their companies, and traveling to career exploration conferences.

Submissions for funding are considered on a rolling basis.