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Grants & Awards


Jefferson Awards for Public Service


In January, 2005, the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE) became one of 49 organizations in the Bay Area to join the Jefferson Awards for Public Service Civic Engagement. This initiative recognizes individuals who make a difference on a daily basis in their local communities. ICCE is now accepting nominations for the Jefferson Awards for Public Service.

Faculty, staff, students, and/or community partners may nominate an individual for the award based on the following achievements:

* Special courage, commitment, tenacity, or vision that has gone "unsung" and has not been previously recognized;
* Their actions have had a positive impact and benefited others in the community.

Please complete the recommendation form and submit a letter of nomination no more than two pages long that specifically addresses the nominee's community service, length of service, outstanding personal acts, and community impact.

The last day to submit nominations is: Friday, December 12, 2008 by 5:00 p.m.

For questions regarding the award, please contact Perla Barrientos

barrient@sfsu.edu or call Ext 8-3282.

 

Jefferson Award form 08-09
Jefferson Awards 2008-2009

 

 

ICCE Community Scholarship Faculty Grants Program

 

ICCE offers several mini grants to foster faculty community scholarship.


  1. Participatory Action Research Grants (Category A): $4,000 grants are available to support SF State faculty with the development of participatory action research activities—faculty researchers and members of a community organization work together to define the problem to be examined, co-generate relevant knowledge about the problem, execute research techniques together, and take specific action to promote change.
  2. Faculty Curriculum Development Grants (Category B): These $4,000 (individual faculty) or $7,000 (group) grants are designed to support non-designated CSL courses with special emphasis on Civic Engagement and/or Community Partners as co-educators.
  3. Faculty Travel Awards (Category C): Awards of up to $500 each are available to support travel to conferences where individual faculty members will be making scholarly presentations related to CSL. All SF State faculty are eligible to apply. Unlike the other two awards (Category A and B), applications for these awards are accepted throughout the year on an ongoing basis and there are no application deadlines. Applications will be processed in the order in which they are received, and CSL Travel Award allocations are made until earmarked funds are expended.


 

SEISMIC Student Leadership Mini-Grant Awards

This fall, the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE), in partnership with the San Francisco Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN), launched a new initiative to utilize social networking tools to enhance student involvement in community. The program, Student Engineered Initiatives in Social Media Involving Community (SEISMIC), kicked off with mini-grants to faculty-selected student leaders to develop community projects using social media.

Two awards have been made in response to the September Request for Proposals. Each award will be $1,500.

The first award was made to Brigitte Davila, Raza Studies, for a project involving Project Connect in which university students will mentor high school students in three marginalized San Francisco neighborhoods. Using social networking tools, SF State students will co-develop educational goals with the high school students, who might not otherwise consider higher education an option available to them.

The second award was made to Prof. Connie Ulasewicz, Consumer & Family Studies, to support a partnership with Visions of La Moda in the Bayview neighborhood that introduces urban youth to opportunities in the fashion industry. Using online videos, blogs, and other social media, students will share ideas and develop fashion designs.

ICCE hopes to be able to make mini-grants available again next semester and will announce them here and in Campus Memo . Please feel free to contact Bonnie Hale at bhale@sfsu.edu if you'd like more information about this initiative, or for ideas about how your students can use social media to build communities of practice.

 

ICCE Awards Program

 

ICCE Community Service Learning Faculty Award: One award of $1,000 will be granted to a faculty member annually. Each fall semester, ICCE sends out a Call for Nominations for faculty, student, and community CSL Awards. The criteria includes exemplary practice in community-based teaching that further the goals of the CSL program.

CSL Award Guidelines and Forms 2008-09

 


Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning

The Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning is a national award for exemplary faculty members who have successfully integrated community service learning into their curriculum and have promoted service learning on their campuses. SFSU Nominees are nominated by SF State faculty and sent to ICCE. ICCE in turn will recommend a final nominee to the President’s Office. Faculty who receive the award are given $2,000 and are encouraged to use the money for production of community service learning materials, release time, and/or travel expenses to attend conferences or workshops where the recipient presents materials on community service learning. Please contact ICCE at 415-338-1964 or email icce@sfsu.edu if you need additional information.


 

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