Funding Opportunity by the Community College National Center for Community Engagement

The Community College National Center for Community Engagement is a leader in advancing programs and innovations that stimulate active participation of institutions in community engagement for the attainment of a vital citizenry.

The Community College National Center for Community Engagement (the Center) is a national training and technical assistance organization with a 19-year history of successfully developing and managing innovative partnerships and disseminating lessons learned throughout the higher education community. An outcome of the mission of the Center is to support and promote the pedagogy of service-learning, a teaching method which combines academic instruction with community service as it focuses on increasing academic achievement and engagement, critical and reflective thinking and civic responsibility at community colleges.

CCNCCE is soliciting applications through a Request for Proposal (RFP) from community colleges (community, technical, and tribal) and 2 year campuses within a university system to help implement a national service-learning mentoring program, pending funding by the US Department of Justice – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

For RFP guidelines please visit our website at http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/engagement

Application Deadline:
July 9, 2009

NO EXCEPTIONS!

If fully funded – CCNCCE will award 42 grants in 42 states and/or US Territories in the amount of up to $100,000 per year per college for 3 years for up to $300,000.00 per college.