Community-Engaged funding is available through two programs: Support Funds & Grant Awards
For a summary of funding opportunities, please take a look at our FLYER!
Award recipients will be required to provide timeline and expenditure updates and submit a final report.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this, please reach out to our team at btbelz@loyola.edu.
SUPPORT FUNDS PROGRAM
Approximately $4,500 is available for this academic year for financial assistance through our Support Fund program, which our CELS team approves. We have resumed reviewing applications to support current Fall semester activities as well as proposed activities for Spring 2021.
Application deadlines are currently rolling - apply here!
DEVELOPMENT FUNDS
What? Support fees for conferences, trainings, or other experiences to learn about community-engaged learning and scholarship.
Who? Available to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, administrators, staff, and their community partners.
Amount? Maximum award: $500.
PROJECT FUNDS
What? Support expenses to develop, mobilize, and implement joint community workshops and collaborative service project activities.
Who? Available to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, administrators, staff, and their community partners.
Amount? Maximum award: $500.
COURSE OPERATING FUNDS
What? Support expenses to enhance service-learning and community-engaged learning courses or develop service component modules with courses.
Who? Available to faculty members and their community partners.
Amount? Maximum award: $200 for Service-Learning designated courses; $100 for Community-Engaged courses.
COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Course Development Grants are available to support faculty as they create new community-engaged courses. For the 2023-24 academic year, we are going to support courses that center advocacy and activism. This work might involve partnering with a community organization that does advocacy work, or it might ask students in the course to engage in direct action. Faculty may use a Course Development Grant to adapt a community-engaged course from weekly service to advocacy, to adapt a course that currently has no community engagement, or to create a completely new course.
Faculty members who receive a Course Development Grant will earn a $1,000 stipend for their preparatory work and be eligible for Course Operating Funds when the class is first offered.
Course Development Grants will follow the guidelines below:
- Course preparation work must be completed during Summer 2023
- The course must be offered at least once during the 2023-24 academic year
- The course must include an advocacy and/or activist component.
Applications are due by Monday, April 17th.
Apply Here
GRANT AWARDS PROGRAM
Approximately $6,000 is available for CELS Mini-Grant Awards, which our Loyola Committee on Engaged Scholarship (CoES) approves. We will begin reviewing applications on January 15, 2021.
Apply here!
CAMPUS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IN KNOWLEDGE MINI-GRANTS
What? Fund speakers, events, workshops, and service events held on or off campus and inclusive of Loyola and Baltimore communities, especially those served by the York Road Initiative.
Who? Available to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and their community partners.
Amount? Maximum award: $500
ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP MINI-GRANTS
What? Fund expenses related to implementing community-engaged projects/scholarly endeavors or presenting community-engaged scholarship at conferences.
Who? Available to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and their community partners.
Amount? Maximum award: $1,000
KOLVENBACH GRANT PROGRAM
What? Fund projects that are consistent with the faith and justice goals enunciated by Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach in his 2000 speech “The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in Jesuit Higher Education.”
Who? Available to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, administrators, and staff.
Amount? Maximum award: $8,000
Apply here by March 31, 2023