Grants/Awards
Illinois Campus Compact offers grant opportunities to member campuses to support community service, service-learning, civic engagement and campus-community partnerships.
2011-2012 McCormick Grants
Requests pending
State Farm Faculty Fellows
The State Farm Faculty Fellow grant was created to assist faculty members, teachers, community partners, and local school districts in developing programs which will further support and infuse service learning into local classrooms and across the state of Illinois.
Recipients of our three State Farm Faculty Fellows Grants for 2011-2012:
Dr. Krista Diedrich of Elmhurst College
Dr. Virginia Jagla of National Louis University
Dr. Barbara Rieckhoff or DePaul University
Students in Service
The Students in Service program is a part-time AmeriCorps program that encourages and supports colleges and university students to enroll as part-time AmeriCorps members to provide valuable service in their community.
Each student that participates will be required to do 300 hours of service and in return, he/she will receive a $1,175 education award.
The following Illinois schools were awarded SIS slots for the 2011-2012 academic year:
- Adler School of Professional Psychology
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology
- Columbia College
- DePaul University
- Eureka College
- Governors State University
- Illinois College
- Millikin University
- National-Louis University
- Northern Illinois University
- Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
- Trinity Chrisitian College
- University of Illinois-Springfield
- Wilbur Wright Community College
M3C Fellows Program
The M3C Fellows Program is an AmeriCorps Education Award Program that is a scholarship program to support cohorts of low-income and/or first generation college students who have demonstrated academic abilities while maintaining involvement and a passion for community building through service and civic engagement activities.
Requests Pending