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Subgrant Programs

Building Partnerships for a Better California: deepening and expanding service-learning at college campuses throughout California.

Currently Funded Programs

2007 — 2008 Faculty Development Subgrant Application - Deadline is August 6, 2007.
*Current CACC Subgrantees are not eligible to apply

This small scale grant award is designed to support campuses as they recruit and train faculty in service-learning development and implementation.The successful applicant will receive one subgrant of up to $4,000. Only one application per institution will be accepted. This grant program requires a 2-1 match (thus up to $8,000 or more in matching funds). We will fund between 5 — 10 campuses, maximum. For more information, please contact
Piper McGinley at piper@cacampuscompact.org.

Faculty Development Subgrant Application (View/Download) [50 KB] OR (View/Download) [104 KB]

To assist with your proposal development, we have posted the Review Criteria that our reviewers will use in evaluating your proposal. Our team of reviewers will consist of experienced service-learning faculty, service-learning staff, and other consultants, in addition to CACC staff, and the reviewers' identities will remain confidential. Due to the number of proposals we anticipate, we will not be able to provide you with feedback about your proposal.
Click Here to view the Review Criteria.

Building Partnerships for a Better California: Youth to College Initiative

Building Partnerships for a Better California: Youth to College Initiative (Y2C), is a three year initiative designed to help to raise the percentage of lower-income and disadvantaged youth preparing for and succeeding in college. The four campuses that were selected to participate as lead institutions are:

• Fresno State University
• Humboldt State University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of San Diego

Partners in Progress : (4) Funding programs tailored to meet California's unique needs around fulfilling the civic mission of education (through teacher preparation, civic engagement, and service learning).

CACC supports institutions by providing funding for innovative programs that promotes civic education through service learning, teacher preparation and partnership development.

California College of the Arts (CCA)
Contact: Sonia Mañjon, smanjon@cca.edu

California College of the Arts (CCA) Center for Art and Public Life (Center) is undertaking a project that will focus on evaluating the impact of the Center’s community engagement projects on participating CCA students. Ultimately, the assessment is aimed to strengthen the Center’s programs by defining best practices, and increasing its capacity to serve all of its constituents. In addition, the Center will be conducting a series of dialogues with community partners to better understand the nature of their partnerships with the Center.

California State University, East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward)
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Service-Learning
Contact: Mary D'Alleva, mdalleva@csuhayward.edu, 510-885-4437

CSU East Bay will provide two faculty mini-grants for interdisciplinary service-learning courses that meet the needs of the community partner. A faculty project coordinator will facilitate workshops on interdisciplinary service learning and work closely with grantees on course development. Using assessment tools, faculty, students, and community partners will determine whether the interdisciplinary approach more fully meets the needs of the community than discipline specific methods.

California State University, Monterey Bay
Leading By Example: Peer-led Discussion Groups in a Service Learning Course
Contact: Seth Pollack, seth_pollack@csumb.edu

CSU Monterey Bay will train undergraduate student leaders as peer facilitators to lead weekly discussion groups as part of a service-learning and social justice course. Pre- and post-measures of civic self-efficacy and social responsibility will be used to compare student learning outcomes in sections with and without peer-led discussion groups. It is anticipated the project will provide a more intense group experience for service learners and a greater ability for service-learning student leaders to facilitate a connection to the community.

Humboldt State University
Contact: Ann Bolick-Floss, amb2@humboldt.edu, 707-826-4960; Claire Knox, cgk1@humboldt.edu, 707-826-5854

The Service Learning Community Partners Program at Humboldt State University works with over 200 local agencies, helping to identify and meet their needs, in addition to development and implementation of “best practices” models for the formation of community partnership and risk management in service learning. This project focuses on an effort to attain a deeper understanding of the relationship between HSU’s community partners and faculty through a series of discussions and focus group. In addition, this project will supports HSU’s work towards the development of a community partner relationship building guidebook/resource.

University of California, Berkeley
Advanced Service-Learning and Civic Engagement at UC Berkeley
Contact: Andrew Furco, afurco@berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley, through its Service-Learning Research and Development Center will implement five activities to engage faculty more fully in service-learning activities: (1) engage 8-10 faculty new to service-learning in an exploration of high quality service-learning through a service-learning 101 workshop; (2) engage 25 faculty members in a campus-wide dialogue on the merits and limitations of required community service; (3) engage 3-4 campus departmental teams in an institute focused on developing an action plan for advancing service-learning in the department; (4) hold a Cal/Stanford Foculty Forum that engages approximately 12-15 faculty members from the two campuses in a dialogue about service-learning and the scholarship of engagement; and (5) establish a more faculty-friendly campus website for service-learning.

Whittier College
College and Community Initiative
Contact: Joyce Kaufmann, jkaufman@whittier.edu, 562-907-4808

Our "College and Community" initiative will allow Whittier College to meet with faculty and community partners to identify and articulate service and learning goals, and determine ways to assess how effectively they are being met. The results will be a set of standards to be used as Whittier College builds on this program in the future.

California State University, Chico

Notre Dame de Namur University

University of San Diego

Youth Service California