OCSL | Awards

Faculty CSL Award Opportunities
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Jefferson Awards: Click here for information about the Jefferson Awards.

OCSL Community Service Learning Faculty Award: OCSL annually awards one CSL Faculty Award. The award recipient must show their teaching methodologies not only benefits the community outside of academe, but also has a real and lasting impact on SFSU through the development of courses, curricula, and/or collaborative ventures with colleagues from other departments. Please click here to view more information on the CSL Faculty Award.

Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning:
The Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning is an annual award sponsored by Campus Compact for exemplary faculty members who have successfully integrated community service learning into their curriculum and have demonstrated efforts to assist the process of institutionalizing service learning on their campuses. Campus Compact is a national organization of university presidents who seeks to integrate public and community service into the mission of their universities. Campus Compact particularly seeks for faculty members who have the following qualifications:

Experience in teaching community service learning courses or courses that incorporate community service learning into the curriculum
Redesigned or assisted other faculty in redesigning curricula to include community service components
Presented community service learning pedagogy to faculty at workshops or conferences
Have developed materials to be published regarding integration of community service learning into his or her discipline.

Campus Compact normally accepts nominations for the award in December. Nominations are made by SFSU President, Robert Corrigan, on behalf of San Francisco State University to Campus Compact. The Office of Community Service Learning coordinates the nomination process. 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 the Office of Community Service Learning at 415/338-6846 or ocsl@sfsu.edu for further information.

For more information about the award please click here.
For more information about Campus Compact please visit their web site: http://www.cacampuscompact.org/

OCSL Community Scholarship Faculty Grant Program: The Office of Community Service Learning (OCSL), a unit of the San Francisco Urban Institute, has joined with the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development to solicit applications for the Community Scholarship Faculty Grant program. This year, OCSL has been awarded $24,000 from the CSU Community Service Learning Infrastructure Development Initiative. Funds from these grants will support efforts to foster faculty community scholarship and to support the expansion of community service learning (CSL) courses at SFSU. Three types of awards open to all part-time and full-time faculty at all ranks have been established:

1. Participatory Action Research Grants (Category A): The CSU, Office of Community Service Learning has augmented our funding for this grant category. These $4,000 grants are designed to support SFSU faculty to assist with the development of participatory action research activities -- a collaborative approach where professional researchers and members of an 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 $500 each are available to support travel to conferences at which individual faculty members will be making scholarly presentations related to CSL. While presenters will be given priority in funding, in absence of these applicants, grants will be given to individual faculty to attend CSL training conferences. All 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 exhausted.

For guidelines and applications please click below:

Community Scholarship Faculty Grant Program Guidelines (PDF)

Community Scholarship Faculty Grant Program Application (PDF)

Student CSL Award Opportunities
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Jefferson Awards: Click here for information about the Jefferson Awards.

JusticeCorps Program: The JusticeCorps program is an AmeriCorps program and it presents an innovative approach to solving one of the more pressing issues faced by courts around the country today: providing equal access to justice. JusticeCorps recruits and trains university students annually to augment overburdened court and legal aid staff who are assisting self-represented litigants in court-based self-help programs in select locations. These highly motivated and well-trained students provide in-depth and individualized services to self-represented litigants, often in their own languages. JusticeCorps members commit to serving 300 hours in the self-help centers and receive approximately 30 hours of training as well as a $1,000 education award when they complete the program. The deadline to apply for the Fall 2007 program will be Aug 31. To find out about the application process email us at ocsl@sfsu.edu.

OCSL Community Service Learning Student Award: Every year OCSL offers the CSL Student Award. Nominations are typically accepted every fall for undergraduate and graduate SFSU students who have gone above for their placement agency, clients, or project(s) during their CSL placement. In the Spring semester one student per college is selected for the award and is presented an award certificate from President Corrigan at the CSL Award Luncheon and $250.00 in cash. Please click here to view more information on the CSL Student Award.

President's Volunteer Service Award: The President's Volunteer Service Award recognizes Americans of all ages and backgrounds who have made a sustained commitment to volunteer service. The Award, issued by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation on behalf of the White House, honors individuals, families and groups that have demonstrated outstanding volunteer service and civic participation over the course of a 12-month period or throughout their lifetime. For more information, please click here.

Swearer Student Humanitarian Award: The Swearer Student Humanitarian Award for Service Learning is an annual award sponsored by the OCSL Award Advisory Committee to exemplary students as a recognition to their contribution through community service learning. Please click here to view more information about the award.

Here's how to apply:

• Complete and print out the pre-service orientation quiz at the Students in Service webpage. http://studentsinservice.org/pso/slide01.shtml

• Fill out the ICCE SIS application. Click here to access the ICCE SIS application

You will need to meet with the SIS Outreach Coordinator to apply for this award.

To request a meeting, email: abcsf@sfsu.edu.

Students in Service Awards Program: The Students in Service (SIS) Program is an AmeriCorps service opportunity that encourages and rewards students who are dedicated to improving their communities. The SIS Program makes service a viable option by providing a scholarship that can be applied towards student loans and the cost of attending a higher education institution. Financial need and academic standing are not considerations for this grant. The SIS Program seeks to encourage and support students who are making a difference and getting things done in their communities. Activities that qualify include:

Community service in the areas of education, public safety, environmental initiatives, homeland security, and human needs.
Federal/State-funded work-study positions that are service-related.
Participation in service learning courses, student leadership activities, and more!

Direct Service hours must be voluntary and follow AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities guidelines; the ONLY paid position that you can work at a job and concurrently accrue those hours for SIS is if the position is a service-related, Federal/State-funded Work Study position. Paid internship positions do not qualify for SIS.

SIS offers students the opportunity to choose one of three terms of service (the number of hours he or she agrees to complete). Upon successful completion of a term of service, students are eligible for an Education Award. THE EDUCATION AWARD IS NOT CASH . The award is a voucher that can be applied to outstanding student loans or the cost of attendance at a college or university. The education award amounts are:

300 Hour Term = $ 1,000.00 (up to 1 year to complete 300 hours)

450 Hour Term = $ 1,250.00 (up to 1 year to complete 450 hours)

900 Hour Term = $ 2,362.50 (up to 2 years to complete 900 hours)

Students must currently be involved in, or plan to be involved in a community service activity. Past community service hours do not count toward the completion of the selected term. Students are responsible for securing their own community service activities.

To be eligible for Students in Service, you must be a United States citizen, a United States national, or a legal permanent resident of the United States and at least 17 years of age.

SIS Programs:

America Reads
• A program in which SFSU students enrolled in the America Reads class tutor grade school students after school. For more info click here.

Students in CSL classes
• For more information about CSL courses click here.

America Counts
• A program in which SFSU work study students tutor grade school students in arithmetic after school. For more info click here.

All Other SIS Applicants: fill out the Application and Pre-Orientation Quiz and fax or email it to the address below.

Here's how to apply:

• Complete and print out the pre-service orientation quiz at the Students in Service webpage. http://studentsinservice.org/pso/slide01.shtml

• Fill out the ICCE SIS application. Click here to access the ICCE SIS application

• Mail or Fax BOTH completed documents to:

Community Agency Award Opportunities
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OCSL Community Partner Recognition Award: OCSL honors one community partner agency per academic year. Community agencies are nominated for their efforts in the promotion and facilitation of community service learning to students and staff members of their agency and or their excellence in student supervision and mentorship. Please click here to read more information about the OCSL Community Partner Recognition Award.

National Service Agency Award: SACRAMENTO - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell has announced that the California Department of Education (CDE) has been awarded a $2,593,052 Learn and Serve America grant. The award is to support local educational partnerships and regional service-learning networks for training California teachers and service-learning coordinators who incorporate service into academic settings. The Corporation for National and Community Service (a federal agency) awarded the grant to the CDE, CalServe Initiative for the 2003-04 school year. The grant will provide funds to foster high-quality service for students while helping to build the next generation of active, engaged citizens.

Through the CalServe Initiative, the CDE has been supporting a Statewide Regional Service-Learning Lead infrastructure and 29 district wide school-community partnerships that annually involve more than 84,000 students and approximately 8,000 community volunteers in urban, rural, and suburban communities throughout the state. For more information on CalServe, go to www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/sl/. For the national service grants, go to www.nationalservice.org/news/pr/073003.html.

State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award: Youth Service America and State Farm are proud to present the State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award. The award is now available to teachers/professors, youth (ages 5-25), and school-based service-learning coordinators to implement service-learning projects for National Youth Service Day 2004, April 16-18. National Youth Service Day, the largest service event in the world, mobilizes youth as leaders to identify and address the needs of their communities through service and service-learning, supports youth on a lifelong path of service and civic engagement, and educates the public, the media, and policymakers about the year-round contributions of young people as community leaders. One hundred grants of $1,000 are available to youth, teachers/professors, and school-based service-learning coordinators. For applications and to learn more about this grant and National Youth Service Day, please visit our web site at www.YSA.org/nysd to access resources to help you develop a great service project and prepare a quality grant application.

The Jefferson Awards For Public Service: In January, 2005, the Office of Community Service Learning became one of 49 nonprofit's in the Bay Area to join the Jefferson Awards for Public Service Civic Engagement initiative. Jefferson Awards recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward. By honoring the Jefferson Award recipients, it is the goal of the American Institute for Public Service to inspire others to become involved in community and public service. The San Francisco Chronicle, CBS 5 television (KPIX) and CBS radio (KCBS AM) have started announcing a Jefferson Awards Unsung Hero once per week. Faculty, staff, students, and/or community partners' staff may nominate an individual for the award. See below for Jefferson Award guidelines and nomination forms.

Jefferson Awards Guidelines (PDF)

Jefferson Awards Nomination Form (DOC)

Visit the National Jefferson Awards web site: http://www.aips.org/