California Campus Compact
SOCIAL INNOVATION GENERATION
2011-2012 Student Leadership Initiative (SLI)
I. Overview - Why should I get involved?
California Campus Compact (CACC) is a coalition of California’s leading colleges and universities. We build the collective commitment and capacity of colleges, universities and communities to advance civic and community engagement for a healthy, just and democratic society.
California Campus Compact, with support from the Corporation for National and Community Service: Learn and Serve America Higher Education (CNCS), is pleased to announce the Social Innovation Generation: Student Leadership Initiative (SLI), an 18-month initiative specifically designed to address economic and social outcomes in our state. CACC believes the energy and spirit to serve, lead and transform cascades among college students in California – our Social Innovation Generation. Through harnessing the energy and spirit of California students as leaders to develop and implement student-initiated, student-led service and service-learning projects, we seek to meet the immediate needs of those who have been hardest hit by the economic downturn and aid California in emerging from the current economic crisis with a more innovative, green and sustainable future.
II. SLI Subgrant Overview - What does the SLI have to offer?
This 18-month grant program is designed to support new and innovative student-led and student-initiated service or service-learning projects which address economic and social outcomes in their communities. Up to eight (8) successful applicants will receive one subgrant each of up to $10,000. This grant program requires a 150% match (thus up to $15,000 or more in matching funds).
Grant period: January 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012.
III. Who May Participate?
To be eligible to apply, your campus must:
1. Be a current CACC member institution. Only one application per institution will be accepted.
2. Meet or exceed the federal work study (FWS) requirement that 7% of the FWS allocations must be spent on community service placements.
3. Not be a current CACC subgrantee.
NOTE: Proposal must be submitted by the campus’s service-learning director or other student affairs director with direct supervision of the students involved.
IV. Required Objectives - As a grantee, what would I be responsible for?
CACC is currently soliciting proposals for participation in this project. CACC seeks to fund projects that will meet the following objectives:
1. Implement a new and innovative service or service-learning project that: (1) is initiated and led by students, (2) addresses the continually emerging effects of the California economic downturn on local nonprofit organizations, and (3) has the potential for lasting impact on economic and social outcomes in our state. Please see some project examples below:
Project example #1: College students will create and implement the Outstanding Service Initiative (OSI) program, which will serve as a catalyst to recruit, screen and train student volunteers to staff local nonprofits serving the homeless. Nursing students will provide support with health needs; agriculture students will plant and harvest gardens; social work students will provide emotional support; and recreation students will develop social activities. OSI will be administered by the Campus Student Leadership Organization, a student-run organization with more than 70 student staff members.
Project example #2: Student leaders will develop a new initiative that ties into the campus’s well-established alternative spring break program. The new initiative will focus on intensive service-learning immersion experiences planned by students in collaboration with community leaders after engaging in community mapping and dialogues to assess how local nonprofits have been impacted by the economic downturn. Students and community partners will plan alternative spring break activities that will support these nonprofits and fill the gap left by budget cuts.
2. Collaborate with the following key stakeholders on the design and implementation of the service or service-learning project:
a) Community partners (can include K-12 schools)
b) At least two other higher education institutions, which could include student clubs or student organizations from other campuses. (Note: While partner colleges are not required to be members of CACC, it is hoped that applicants will encourage non-members to join.)
c) On-campus partners who are targeting the same populations, community partners or issues as your proposed service or service-learning project. On-campus partners could include student clubs, academic or student affairs departments, institutes, organizations, programs, etc.
3. Use Web 2.0 and social media to strengthen and support the service or service-learning project. For example, Facebook, podcasts, webinars, Twitter, public access TV, YouTube, websites, listservs, blog spaces or wikis could be used to:
a) Inspire or coordinate involvement in the service or service-learning project
b) Deliver information or services to populations targeted by the project
c) Disseminate results to funders, legislators and other interested parties
d) Facilitate reflection throughout the service project
4. Reach 1000 college students. Throughout your project activities, you’ll need to reach at least 1,000 college students. For example, you could use Web 2.0 to host a podcast about your service project, or you could recruit student volunteers from your campus and your partner campuses to serve at your community partner sites, or you could host a student colloquium to share your service or service-learning activities with other students. Through whatever project or program you design, you’ll need to make sure you are able to reach at least 1,000 students within the 18 months of the program.
5. Plan activities for the 2011 and 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Activities can stand alone from the overall proposed service or service-learning projects, but should connect college students with community partners. Please feel free to access resources about the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at www.MLKday.gov.
6. Support at least two student leaders who will jointly plan and present student pre-conference sessions with other students from California at the 2011 Continuums of Service (COS) Conference. The 2011 conference will be held in California. Participation is intended to allow students opportunities to network, share best practices and generate ideas for future projects. Your budget narrative should account for COS attendance, either directly or through matching funds.
V. Application Guidelines
To be considered for an award, proposals must be received by CACC no later than 4:00pm on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Campuses will be notified no later than November 15, 2010. Please submit one electronic copy of the proposal via email to: Piper McGinley, . An original, hard copy of the Proposal Cover Page should be mailed, as it must include an original signature. Please address to: Piper McGinley, CACC, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Pacific Plaza, Suite 750, San Francisco, CA 94132.
CACC seeks proposals that clearly demonstrate how you will meet the required criteria through a proposal narrative (6 pgs max), budget summary (1 pg), and budget narrative (2 pgs max). Note that items listed with an asterisk are not included in the page maximums. Incomplete proposals will not be considered for review.
VI. Proposal Elements
1. *Proposal Cover Page (see attached form)
2. *100-word abstract of proposed activities (this may be posted on our website, so please write it in a manner that can be easily understood by the general public)
3. Narrative description of proposed activities. In no more than 6 pages of double-spaced, 12-point font, please answer the following questions, in this order:
a. Describe the pressing need(s) your project proposes to address in response to the economic downturn. Include persuasive supporting evidence and demographic descriptions about your community/region – for example, compelling statistics about the poverty rate, housing or homelessness rates, economic downturn or other data that will help to make the case as to why it is important to fund your project related to the issues that you are going to address. Be sure to provide citations for all data.
b. Brief description of the new or innovative service or service-learning project that addresses the needs you’ve identified above. In particular, describe how students were involved in developing this application (student initiated) and how they’ll be involved in implementation (student led). Please make sure to include how you will meet the required objectives:
1) Implement a new and innovative service or service-learning project that: (1) is initiated and led by students; (2) addresses the continually emerging effects of the California economic downturn on local nonprofit organizations; and (3) has the potential for lasting impact on economic and social outcomes in our state.
2) Collaborate with the following key stakeholders on the design and implementation of the service or service-learning project:
a. Community partners (can include K-12 schools)
b. At least two other higher education institutions
c. On-campus partners
3) Use Web 2.0 and social media to strengthen and support the service or service-learning project.
4) Reach 1000 college students.
5) Plan activities for the 2011 and 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
6) Support at least two student leaders who will jointly plan and present student pre-conference sessions with others from California at the 2011 Continuums of Service Conference..
c. Brief description of how you will share what you have learned through this project with colleagues, fellow students, partner campuses, legislators and others.
d. Brief description of how you hope to continue this project after the funding period is over.
e. It is expected that the Lead Contact/Project Director or other designated campus staff or faculty will serve in some capacity as a facilitator of the learning experience for the student leaders of this project. Please describe what you hope the students leading this project will learn, and how you (or other designated campus staff or faculty) plan to provide support and guidance to facilitate their learning. Examples could include creating a learning plan with your students to define goals, skills to be honed and knowledge areas to be explored; meeting with your students monthly; hosting reflection sessions for the students to process their experience; or periodically checking in with students to provide guidance, training or referral to other campus resources.
4. * Timeline of events for planned activities
5. * A budget summary and 1-2 page budget narrative that clearly articulates how the institution expects to expend the funds awarded and how it will provide the required 150% cash and in-kind match. In the budget narrative, please be sure to provide itemized costs and include ALL calculations. (ex: for salary funds covering 5% of someone’s time, we would need to see: 5% time x $salary rate x # of months = $ dollars). The budget summary and budget narrative are not counted in the 6-page maximum project narrative. (Please use Budget Summary Page provided at the end of this application.)
* These items are not included in the 6 page maximum.
For more information: Contact Liane Louie at California Campus Compact via phone (415-405-7577) or email ().
VII. Expectations of subgrant recipients
To foster success in developing sustainable, quality service, service-learning and civic engagement initiatives, CACC has developed a supportive infrastructure and has high expectations of each participating institution. All sub-grant recipients must meet the following requirements as a required condition of funding. Note that these items do not need to be addressed in the narrative proposal.
1. Participate in a mandatory on-line training hosted by CACC on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 from 10 am – 12 pm. Topics will include CNCS guidance, fiscal management, assessment/evaluation plans, surveys, crafting legislative communication and other issues important to project success.
2. Administer all required surveys and submit reports in a thorough and timely manner. Annual and periodic evaluations and surveys are conducted by CACC and the Corporation for National and Community Service for evaluation and information purposes.
3. Send at least one letter per semester to your federally elected representatives to educate them on the impact CNCS funds are having in the recovery and revitalization of California. Letters can be from a student leader, community partner, service recipient, faculty member or community service director involved in the proposed activities. You are strongly encouraged to send letters to your state and local elected representatives as well. Note: CACC will provide templates to assist with this requirement.
4. Submit all resources, materials, curriculum and presentations developed as a result of funding to the National Service Learning Clearinghouse (www.servicelearning.org).
5. Acknowledge CACC and CNCS in all promotional materials used in funded activities—flyers, press releases, web pages, announcements, etc. Sub-grantees must incorporate the logos for both California Campus Compact and the Corporation for National and Community Service: Learn and Serve America Higher Education. Note that logos are available for download at CACC’s website: www.cacampuscompact.org.
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PROPOSAL COVER PAGE
Lead Applicant (must be from a CACC member institution) and Project Director
Name: Title:
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Institution:
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Address:
Street Address
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Total Grant Funds Requested: Match:
I, the Project Director, agree to complete all activities and reporting requirements as
outlined in this proposal. ______
Signature of Lead Applicant Date
Fiscal Contact (contact on Lead Applicant’s campus for grants and contracts processing)
Name: Title:
Salutation First Last
Institution:
Department:
Address:
Street Address
City State Zip Code
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