FOCUS ON FUNDING
News and Notes from the SLCC Office of Institutional Development
November 2005
Learn and Serve America Higher Education
Grants support a variety of community service
and service-learning activities including:
creating and expanding community service and
service-learning programs; training faculty, K-
Focus on Funding is a newsletter published
by the St. Louis Community College Office
of Institutional Development (OID). It
features external funding opportunities
available from federal, state, local and
private funding sources, as well as other
news. For more information about the OID
and services provided by staff, please
contact Castella Henderson, Director, at
314/539-5354, or visit the OID web page at:
http://www.stlcc.edu/odweb/.
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The Office of Inst
itutional Develop
ment
will hold our mon
thly
CAMPUS OFFIC
E HOURS
in November as fo
llows:
Grant Opportunities
Meramec: 1st W
ednesday
November 2, 2:30
– 4:00
BA 123J
Forest Park: 2nd
Thursday
November 10, 2:30
– 4:00
Executive Dean’s
Conference Room
F-234
Florissant Valley:
3rd Tuesday
November 15, 2:
30 – 4:00
Training Center R
oom 109
Office hours are ti
me set aside for
faculty and staff o
n campus to have
informal discussio
n with staff membe
rs
from Institutional
Development.
Learn and Serve America Higher
Education Grant Competition
(Corporation for National and
Community Service)
The Corporation for National and Community
Service announces the anticipated availability of
approximately $40 million--subject to
Congressional appropriation-- in Learn and
Serve America funds to implement and support
Higher Education service-learning programs in
FY 2006.
The purpose of higher education grants is to
expand participation in community service and
service-learning by supporting innovative
community service programs carried out through
institutions of higher education that act as civic
institutions to meet the human, educational,
environmental, or public safety needs of
neighboring communities. Emphasis is placed
both on institutional change to support service
and service-learning within higher education and
on community problem-solving and capacitybuilding.
If you have quest
ions about
funding opportu
nities or the
grants process, p
lease stop by!
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FOCUS ON FUNDING
News and Notes from the SLCC Office of Institutional Development
Faculty and Staff Kudos
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12 teachers, and others to conduct servicelearning; integrating service-learning into
professional education programs;
strengthening the service-learning
infrastructure within higher education
institutions; and supplementing community
service and service-learning activities
through Federal Work-Study (FWS)
programs. Participants in higher education
programs include graduate and
undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and
community members.
The following SLCC projects have been
funded recently. Project directors,
sources, grant amounts, and
descriptions for just a few of the recent
awards include:
Jacquelyn Landau, Mental Health
Board, $7,500. A grant for the Forest
Park campus to develop and implement
a curriculum of mental health/substance
abuse interpreter training to help local
service providers address the treatment
needs of immigrants and refugees.
Institutions of higher education may apply
individually or as members of a consortium.
Consortia awards will range from
approximately $350,000 to $500,000 for
each of three consecutive years; individual
grants will range form $125,000 to $200,000
for each of three years.
Lorna Finch, Better Family Life/St.
Louis Agency on Training and
Employment, $35,547. A grant for St.
Louis Community College to
participate in the Career Pathway Life
Sciences project. The College will
provide instructional design, intake and
assessment, basic skills and bio-tech
coursework for eligible participants.
Deadline: February 28, 2006
For more information, contact the SLCC
Office of Institutional Development at
539-5354.
Pam McIntyre, Productive Living
Board for St. Louis County Citizens
with Developmental Disabilities,
$92,091. A grant to provide vocational
enhancement services to St. Louis
County residents with developmental
disabilities through the Access to
Continuing Education Program.
THE SLCC OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
Castella Henderson, Director of Institutional
Development:
539-5354 or chenderson@stlcc.edu
Julie Heyer, Scholarship Coordinator and
Resource Development Specialist:
539-5476 or jheyer@stlcc.edu
Alice Hoffmann, Secretary:
539-5354 or ahoffmann@stlcc.edu
CONGRATULATIONS
to ALL!
Lucia Miller, Academic Grant Writer: 539-5328
or lrmiller@stlcc.edu
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