Learn & Serve America, Higher Education Grants, Due March 9, 2010

Closing Date for Applications: Mar 09, 2010
Eligible Applicants: State governments, Institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments and organizations; Nonprofits
Expected Number of Awards: 18
Award: $85,000 to $500,000 annually for up to 3 years (Grants will be awarded to an estimated seven to nine individual institutions ranging from approximately $85,000 to $200,000 annually for a project period of up to three years, and an estimated seven to eleven consortia ranging from approximately $200,000 to $500,000 for a project period up to three years)

"The purpose of the Learn and Serve America Higher Education program is to support institutions of higher education that use innovative service-learning programming to meet the needs of local communities. For this year’s grant competition, Learn and Serve America will fund programs that focus on one of the following priorities: • Embedding Service-Learning in Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training – • Service-Learning in STEM-focused disciplines – programs will integrate high-quality service-learning into the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The program funds two different types of grants: 1) Individual Institution grants to support innovative and potentially replicable service-learning programs at a single institution of higher education. 2) Consortia grants to support a group of institutions of higher education who will be implementing similar service-learning programs. "