Samuel Huntington Public Service Award

  • The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.

    The deadline to apply for the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award is February 15, 2010.  Please click here for more information and to obtain an application.

At A Glance: Engaging Students with the Community

  • The Harward Center for Community Partnerships offers students the opportunity to engage with community partners through:

    Community-Based Learning: Academically connected community-based work that includes courses, research, thesis, and independent study;

    Fellowships/Community Work-Study: Paid employment that includes work with non-profit agencies;

    Volunteerism: Student-led community engagement activities that are not tied to a course and are unpaid. These are one-time, short-term or ongoing activities supported by the Student Volunteer Fellows.

Kudos

  • A plan by three Bates College students to offer Tanzanian street children a survival alternative to a pervasive sex-for-food trade has won a $10,000 award from the 100 Projects for Peace program.

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Faculty Profile

  • In April 2007, Lee Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium's Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward).

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National Recognition

  • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Bates College for its new Community Engagement Classification, created to recognize colleges and universities that have institutionalized community engagement in their endeavors.

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Academic Year Student Opportunities

 

CRAFTS SERVICE GRANTS provide funds for students who design an academically-related community-based learning project.  Funding up to $300 for qualified students and up to $500 for a group of students is available.  Arthur Crafts funds are intended to cover the expenses that might arise in a project, such as supplies, fees, or research expenses.  Awards are competitive, are granted without regard to financial need, and are available to students in all disciplines and classes.  For more information, contact the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-6202) or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above. 
DEADLINES: October 1, 2009; February 1 and April 29, 2010

PAPAIOANOU SERVICE-LEARNING GRANTS are awarded on a competitive basis to students who seek up to $150 per individual or $300 per group to carry out an academically-related community-based learning project during the academic year. Students may submit a proposal at any point during the semester to the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.  Students who are thinking of applying for these funds are strongly encouraged to talk with Holly Lasagna at the Center.  An application can be downloaded by clicking on the hyperlink above. 
DEADLINE: Rolling

VOLUNTEER SERVICE GRANTS provide funding for volunteer service projects.  Individuals can apply for up to $150.  Groups can apply for up to $300.  For more information, contact the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-6202) or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above. 
DEADLINE: Rolling

COMMUNITY WORK-STUDY FELLOWSHIPS provide federal work-study funds for academic-year community-based work with local non-profit agencies.  Students can apply for jobs already listed for local organizations.  Students may also work as literacy or math tutors in the local schools through the AMERICA READS/AMERICA COUNTS program.  Students MUST qualify for federal work-study funds.  Compensation is at a rate of $8/hour.  Host agencies must agree to reimburse Bates College for 25% of the student's total earnings.   For more information, contact the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-6202) or download an application for either program by clicking on the hyperlinks above.
DEADLINE: Rolling, but most positions are filled by mid-semester

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS provide funding, mentoring, and peer reflection for student projects that advance public needs, as articulated in dialogue with community partners, through significant academic research.  Unlike past years, CBR Fellowships will extend throughout the 2009-10 academic year, rather than being divided by semesters.  You may apply for a community-based research project that is already underway (one that was initiated in a Fall Term course, for instance, or an Honors Thesis project) or a project that you are only beginning to plan (for instance, a Winter Term Senior Thesis).  CBR Fellows will receive a stipend $750.  For more information, contact David Scobey, Director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-6443) or dscobey@bates.edu.
DEADLINE: November 13, 2009

TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE GRANTS provide funds to help students with travel expenses related to their community-based project.  Funding up to $100 for qualified students and up to $300 for a group of students is available.  For more information, contact the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-6202) or download an application by clicking on the hyperlink above.
DEADLINES: Rolling (reviewed every two weeks)