Funding is occasionally available specifically for service-learning development through such organizations as
Other funding may become available for projects whose major focus is not service-learning but which include higher education service-learning partnerships as a means of achieving their goals. Examples of this are the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board’s annual grants to projects that engage work-study students in the community, and federally-funded school enrichment grants such as Gear-Up.
Check this page for more funding opportunities for service-learning as they become available!
March 27, 2008
Washington D.C. -- More than $5 million in Learn and Serve America grant funding will be available to support community service and service-learning through three new grant competitions, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced today.
The three funding opportunities are:
Funded by the Lilly Endowment Five year project, $2 million
The Center for Public Service has two roles to play in this collaborative university-wide grant initiative that focuses on development of a sense of meaning and purpose, or vocation, in the context of a Lutheran education. (1) CPS works with the Wang Center to support “Returner Reflection” groups. (2) CPS supports development of faculty expertise in service learning through organization of service learning workshops, course development opportunities, faculty-student research and “mini-sabbaticals” that give faculty time to work alongside their students or to work extensively at a given site in service learning.