Funding Opportunities for Partners

This year-long community of practice works collaboratively on a scholarly project that seeks to advance the understanding and practice of community engagement, while individually incorporating critical community engagement into the three components of faculty work: teaching, research, and service.

• Open to: Faculty of any rank or discipline at Community-Engaged Alliance partner institutions
• Funding Award: $5,000
• Required Institutional Match: $1,500

Senior Faculty Fellow

Each cohort of Fellows is led by one Senior Faculty Fellow. The Senior Faculty Fellow is a three-year leadership opportunity for a highly engaged scholar.

This funding opportunity supports the implementation of high-impact community engagement learning practices through curricular and co-curricular opportunities that intentionally emphasize community engagement practices that increase and strengthen community-campus partnerships and student learning while deepening the culture for community engagement across the institution.

Application coming mid-2022

This funding opportunity supports 30-month projects devoted to cultural change at grantee partner institutions around the intersection of critical frameworks, social justice, diversity, equity, inclusion, and community engagement. Funding supports the grantee institutions in deepening their community engagement efforts by intentionally creating and strengthening an infrastructure to support critical teaching and administrative practices.

Application coming mid-2022

This funding opportunity supports 10-month projects at grantee partner institutions as they engage in year-long work to either 1) complete Community-Engaged Alliance’s community engagement strategic planning and self-assessment process, or 2) the development and implementation of professional development and learning communities aimed at preparing faculty and staff to implement high-quality community engagement practices.

Applications coming mid-2022

This funding opportunity supports research that critically examines the current structures of community engagement within higher education and the impact that community engagement is making within communities. Proposals examining critical community engagement efforts and their impacts are strongly encouraged.

Applications coming mid-2022

This funding opportunity supports a wide variety of episodic to semester-long place-based community engagement experiences that foster authentic community-campus partnerships, as well as furthering student and community civic development and collaborative growth.