FACULTY DISCRETIONARY GRANTS are offered to faculty in amounts up to $1000 to support community-based learning activities in existing courses.  Discretionary grants may also be used as seed funding for the planning and development of larger community-based grants such as the Harward Center Grants for Publicly-Engaged Academic Projects.  Grants can enhance community-based learning, community-based research, and community engagement activities in the curriculum through the support of new materials, transportation, honoraria, and the like.  Faculty may apply for one grant per semester per course.  Funds are limited, and so we encourage faculty to apply prior to, or as early as possible in, the semester.  For more information, contact Holly Lasagna in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above. 
DEADLINE: Rolling

HARWARD CENTER GRANTS FOR PUBLICLY ENGAGED ACADEMIC PROJECTS are intended to support a wide array of publicly-engaged academic projects. These may include (but are not limited to) community-based research, public scholarship and non-scholarly writing, curriculum and course development, the development or deepening of community partnerships, and public art and cultural projects. We invite proposals not only for local partnerships and projects, but also for regional, state-wide, intercultural, national, and transnational initiatives that need have no immediate link to our local community. Along with projects that extend student learning and undergraduate research, we invite proposals for research, creative, and communicative work that do not involve Bates undergraduates. Grants are open to all intellectual and artistic fields. They are meant to encourage both existing work by community-based learning “veterans” and new areas of public work by Bates faculty and staff.  For more information, contact David Scobey in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above. 
DEADLINES: December 1, 2009

STAFF VOLUNTEER GRANTS support staff involvement in community service projects.  Projects need not be connected to or sponsored by Bates.  Activities supported by the grants might include (but are not limited to): purchase of supplies for a clean-up day; printing costs to publicize an event; or food expenses for community work.  Grants of up to $150 are available year-round for staff volunteer projects and funding is open to all Bates College staff members.  A review committee of Harward Center staff and Bates College Staff Association members will meet monthly to review applications and approve grants.  For more information, contact Marty Deschaines in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above.
DEADLINE: Rolling

PROGRAM, DEPARTMENTAL OR GEC GRANTS support departments, programs, GECs, or interdisciplinary faculty teams in developing curricula, courses, ongoing partnerships, training, or other resources that institutionalize community engagement opportunities within or across departments, programs, or General Education Concentrations.  A total of $12,000 is available in 2007-08, although individual grants will not exceed $6,000.  Grant winners will be able, upon satisfactory completion of grant activities, to access an "Act II" grant of up to 50% of the original grant, to sustain the activities.  For more information, contact David Scobey in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above.
DEADLINE: TBD