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Carter Partnership Awards

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration, honors and recognizes exemplary collaborations, undertaken by a college in partnership with a community group, which addresses critical areas of public need. The award recipient receives $15,000 in support of their program to be divided between their community partner and their campus. The first and second runners-up will receive $7,000 and $5,000 respectively. The purpose of the Carter Awards are to:

• Provide recognition for outstanding campus-community partnerships
• Increase the number and the effectiveness of campus-community partnerships and promote college citizenship
• Encourage cooperation among education, community, government, and business leaders on critical, social, and economic issues
• Increase public awareness of and support for campus-community partnership

Carter/CASE Award

WHAT IS IT?
A grant that provides prestigious recognition for students, faculty and their community partners for academic
service. It is a competition among students whose project proposals represent the most innovative and
promising ways to serve the community. It is offered in the US, UK, and India. Winners in the US receive
$1,000 to implement their proposal (amount is adjusted to accommodate the local environment of the
country) and a certificate of merit bearing signatures of President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalyn Carter.

To Learn More: Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant

McCormick Presidential Civic Leader Fellows

Illinois Campus Compact has been generously awarded grant funding by the McCormick Tribune Foundation to support our McCormick Tribune Presidential Civic Leader Fellowship program for the 2007-2009 academic year.

TWO $10,000 ILCC/ McCormick Presidential Civic Leader Fellows will be named. This Fellowship will now be an 18 month opportunity to create a truly strong, integrated, civic engagement process for the institution.

llinois Campus Compact has developed an outstanding model for involving Presidents of our member institutions in a strong personal investment to promote civic engagement as part of their civic mission. This Presidential Fellows program remains unique to Illinois Campus Compact. A banner we wave proudly with the McCormick Tribune’s name attached to the Fellowships. And so to continue our good work with our ILCC institutions and their Presidents, Illinois Campus Compact is seeking innovative proposals from Illinois Campus Compact Presidents/Chancellors who are willing to engage in public work through campus and community partnerships that address issues and formulates solutions which build citizenship and democracy. This grant will engage higher education presidents by linking them with a diverse group of students faculty and staff and at least one community partner into a civic engagement project which will provide opportunities to empower young people, the campus and at the same time reinvigorate the community and democracy with fresh ideas and thoughtful leadership. Being a Presidential Fellow will provide the university presidents time to conceptualize, explore, and act on their role as knowledge brokers and civic leaders.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS due by December 20, 2007.
Information Links: McCormick Presidential Civic Leader Fellow
Title Page Presidential Fellows

McCormick Raise Your Voice Fellows

Illinois Campus Compact is offering a Raise Your Voice Fellows program to support the ongoing work of RYV on ILCC member campuses for Nov. 2007-May 2008-09. Being awarded a Fellowship enhances a student’s recognition for the contribution and commitment to the civic engagement work the student provides to his/her campus and community. Part of the leadership experience that ILCC can afford to students is the opportunity to gain an invaluable experience through current campus involvement by serving as a RYV Fellow and a representative of their institution. This experience can be applied to future work on community based boards or with local nonprofits and schools.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS due by December 20, 2007.
Information Links: Raise Your Voice Fellows RFP 2008
RYV Title Page

M3C Fellows

M3C Application for New Campuses

2008-2009 M3C Continuation Request

The M3C Fellows Program is conceptualized as a scholarship program to support cohorts of predominantly low-income and/or first generation college students who have demonstrated academic abilities while maintaining involvement and passion for community building through service and civic engagement activities. The M3C Fellow will receive a $1,000 education award after completing 300 hours of service within one calendar year. This award is given from the Corporation of National and Community Service Trust Fund. The education award goes directly to the Fellow in the form of a voucher that can be applied toward existing student loans or future tuition. If your campus would like to apply to be a M3C Fellow cohort please go to the following website: http://www.m3cfellows.org/app-info.html Eligibility Requirements for Prospective Campuses (See page 5 of the Campus Application)

It is time to think about renewing your program for next year. Please go to website www.m3cfellows.org for the 2007-2008 Continuation Request Instructions. Continuation request instructions apply to programs that are currently hosting an M3C Fellow cohort.
If you do not plan to continue the M3C Fellowship Program please contact Kim White immediately: kim.white@uwp.edu

ILCC Congratulates our member campuses for the Midwest Campus Compact Citizen-Scholar Fellowship Program 2007-2008 Continuation

M3C Fellowship Coordinators Reflections 2005-2006

State Farm Faculty Fellows

Illinois Campus Compact has been generously awarded grant funding again by the State Farm Companies Foundation to support a State Farm Faculty Fellowship program for January 2008 to December 2009.

Illinois Campus Compact is seeking innovative proposals from faculty who will work with a teacher(s) in P-12 OR from faculty who will integrate service-learning pedagogy in their teaching preparation/graduate education programs, as well as who will provide a cohesive P-16 approach to service learning and plan to integrate community engagement into their teaching, research and professional service.

The mini-grants will provide faculty opportunities for involvement in, and facilitation of, applicable instructional practices along with a teacher in a community partner school, as well as research that advances the field of service learning. This will include revisions of course curriculum to include a service learning component and collaboration with area schools to develop P-16 civic engagement opportunities.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS due by December 20, 2007.
Information Links: State Farm Faculty Fellows RFP 2007-2008
State Farm Faculty Fellows Title Page

ILCC is pleased to announce the 2006-2007 State Farm Faculty Fellows

Ann Drougas, PhD of Dominican University
Associate Professor of Finance 6 Economics

Masoud Moallem, PhD of Rockford College
Department of Economics

Michael P. Savage, PhD of Elmhurst College
Director of Service Learning

Cynthia Sims, Ed.D of Southern Illinois-Carbondale University
Assistant Professor, Workforce Ed. & Development