Indiana Campus Compact offers a wide variety of funding opportunities to our partner campuses, including grants to support student service projects and plunges, curricular and co-curricular program development grants for faculty and staff, and funding to offset the costs of a campus-community dialogue and culturally relevant trainings.
Indiana Campus Compact is committed to supporting the efforts of our partner institutions to respond to the needs of your communities—your students, your faculty and staff, and your community partners—during this unprecedented time. To this end, we have added two additional funding options within our popular High-Impact Community Engagement Practices grant and Strengthening Communities grant.
Indiana Campus Compact will fund projects that leverage institutional resources to support community stakeholders in meaningful ways, while further developing Indiana college students into civic leaders during this global crisis. We encourage applicants to be creative in how they actualize their COVID-19 proposals, but provide the following as examples of fundable projects:
Project and Application Timeline Details
| Application Deadlines | November 9, 2020 |
| Notification to Applicant | 7 Weeks following submission |
| Project Dates | Determined by applicant
Must end by May 15, 2021 |
COVID-19 Addition to Project Narrative
Applicants should complete all parts of the Strengthening Communities Project Narrative, and should include information in response to the following prompts, either within its own section or woven throughout the proposal:
When reviewing COVID-19 proposals, the review committee will consider the following anticipated limitations and how the applicant will address them. Limitations in being able to gather in groups to perform community engagement activities.
Submission Details
All applications are to be submitted via Indiana Campus Compact’s Engagement Portal. All proposals must be submitted using the Principal Investigator’s profile. All submissions must be completed at one time, the system is not able to save incomplete applications for completion at a later date. Detailed instructions on how to create a user profile in Indiana Campus Compact’s Engagement Portal can be found on the Indiana Campus Compact website.
To ensure that these applications are routed correctly, all applicants applying for the Strengthening Communities COVID-19 funding must use “COVID-19” in their project title.
Questions
Direct question to Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning at laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org.
In order to support the efforts of our partner campuses in responding nimbly to the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are continuing to offer funding for planning as part of our High-Impact Community Engagement Practice grant for the August 10, 2020, and November 9, 2020 application cycles. This planning grant opportunity provides funding for institutions to partner with representatives of community organizations (or individual community members) to envision how their high-impact community engagement work will need to change as they respond to the evolving COVID-19 situation.
Indiana Campus Compact will fund proposals that focus on expanding the use of high-impact community engagement practices to support local Indiana community’s responses to COVID-19. Applicants should strive to achieve the overarching goals of the High-Impact Community Engagement Practice grant to support the development of Indiana college students into the next generation of civic leaders, and increase the number of reciprocal community-campus partnerships.
We encourage applicants to think broadly about how their institution is leveraging its resources to support their communities. Example of fundable projects include:
COVID-19 Addition to Project Narrative
Applicants should complete all parts of the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices Project Narrative, and should include information in response to the following prompts, either within its own section or woven through the proposal:
When reviewing COVID-19 Planning Response proposals, the review committee will consider the following anticipated limitations and how the applicant addresses them.
Project and Application Timeline Details
Application Deadline: November 9, 2020
Funding Notification: December 18, 2020
Earliest Project Start; December 28, 2020
Submission Details
All applications are to be submitted via Indiana Campus Compact’s Engagement Portal. All proposals must be submitted using the Principal Investigator’s profile. All submissions must be completed at one time, the system is not able to save incomplete applications for completion at a later date. Detailed instructions on how to create a user profile in Indiana Campus Compact’s Engagement Portal can be found on the Indiana Campus Compact website.
To ensure that these applications are routed correctly, all applicants applying for the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices COVID-19 Response funding must use “COVID-19 Response” in their project title.
Questions
Direct question to Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning at laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org
The Indiana Campus Compact Strengthening Communities grant supports a wide range of community engagement experiences from episodic place-based projects to regional Indiana-based plunge experiences, to short-term on-going co-curricular community engagement activities, to training and advocacy initiatives addressing systemic community issues. Projects are to be designed in such a way that participants are able to further develop a deeper understanding of civic learning and democratic engagement, including the skills and concepts necessary to implement such activities and develop into future civic leaders and civic-minded professionals. Additionally, projects should seek to further the development of high-quality community-campus partnerships where all partners are able to transcend self-interest as a means of seeking mutual benefit and embracing, what Enos and Morton (2003) describe as a “larger definition of community” (p. 25).
*Undergraduate student applicants are required to have a faculty, community engagement professional, or graduate student co-project director to serve in a support role.
The Indiana Campus Compact Research With and About Community Engagement funding opportunity will support original research aimed at empirically exploring community engagement initiatives and organizational change at institutions of higher education in Indiana or the effect community engagement has on students’ success during or after college.
DOWNLOAD THE RESEARCH WITH AND ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RFP
Funded research will support Indiana Campus Compact’s goal to “increase rigorous and deep assessment…of community engagement’s collective impact on the challenges facing Indiana” and beyond. This funding opportunity seeks to connect community-engaged scholars (both within higher education and community organizations) with individuals from institutional research or effectiveness offices as a means of supporting their research efforts.
The overall goals of the program include:
The Research With and About Community Engagement grant seeks to fund two types of research projects:
Download Research With and About Community Engagement RFP
The Research With and About Community Engagement grant requires a Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigator. Below is a list of eligible applicants.
The following individuals at Indiana Campus Compact partner institutions are eligible to serve as either a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator:
The following individuals are eligible to serve only as Co-Principal Investigators:
Indiana Campus Compact has the funding to support six Research With and About Community Engagement proposals. Awards are in the amount of $5,000 and require a $1,500 institutional cash match.
Applications will be accepted through the Indiana Campus Compact Engagement Portal starting May 12, 2020.
Interested applicants are able to submit full proposals for the following application deadlines: June 15, 2020; August 10, 2020; November 9, 2020; and February 8, 2021. Funded research projects can begin seven weeks after the application is submitted and funding is available through May 31, 2022.
Please contact Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning, at 317-274-6504 or laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org for more information about this upcoming opportunity.
Download the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices Request for Proposals
The Indiana Campus Compact High-Impact Community Engagement Practices funding opportunity will support the development and implementation of a high-impact community engagement learning practice (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). These types of activities can include both curricular (first-year seminars, capstone courses, global learning, internships, service-learning courses, undergraduate research course, and writing-intensive courses) and co-curricular (common intellectual experiences, learning communities) experiences (Longo & Gibson, 2016) that also incorporate an intentional emphasis on community-engagement practices—e.g., place, humility, integration, depth, development, reflection, teams, capacity building, impact orientation, evidence, learning, mentors, and sequence (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). Funded projects will support strong reciprocal community-campus partnerships that strengthen student learning, and further support a culture of community engagement within the institution.
Download the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices Request for Proposals
Download the Faculty Fellows program Request for Proposals
2021–2022 Application Timeline
The Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellows program is a year-long learning community experience designed in the tenets of Boyer’s (1996) vision of the scholarship of engagement. Selected individuals will serve a one-year term as part of a cohort with other engaged scholars from Indiana Campus Compact partner campuses. Each year, the cadre of selected scholars will work collaboratively on a scholarly project that will seek to advance the understanding and practice of the field of community engagement through the collaborative engagement research paradigm (Jacquez, Ward, & Goguen, 2016), while individually incorporating community engagement into the three components of faculty work: teaching, research, and service.
Application deadlines for the funding opportunities listed below have passed. Indiana Campus Compact hopes to be able to offer these opportunities again in future funding cycles. Subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date on the latest news and funding opportunities from Indiana Campus Compact.
The Actualizing a Culture for Community Engagement grant aims to provide Indiana Campus Compact partner institutions with the opportunity to deepen their community engagement efforts by intentionally developing a campus-wide ethos for community engagement. By intentionally designing and implementing holistic community engagement strategies intended to shift the culture, selected institutions are enabled to create authentic, reciprocal community-campus partnerships, and leverage their role as a place-based institution to accelerate systematic change.
Download the Actualizing a Culture for Community Engagement Request for Proposals.
The Senior Faculty Fellow is a three-year leadership opportunity for a highly engaged scholar who will serve as a peer mentor to each cadre of selected Faculty Fellows beginning in July 2019 through May 2022. The Senior Fellow will work closely with the staff at Indiana Campus Compact to shape the thematic work of each cohort of Fellows, ensuring that there is a common thematic thread connecting each programmatic year.
Grant funds may only be used on direct expenses associated with the development/implementation of the project. Allowable expenses include:
Grant funds may not be requested for indirect expenses. Non-allowable expenses include:
Grants funds are distributed on a reimbursement basis only, no upfront funds will be given. Grantees must work with their campus to ensure an institutional account is set up for grant expenditures. Once all reporting requirements have been met, reimbursements will be processed within thirty (30) days.
Any materials (print and/or electronic) produced with grant funds must acknowledge Indiana Campus Compact as the funder of the project and include the Indiana Campus Compact logo. The Indiana Campus Compact Style Guide provides parameters for the use of logos, press releases, and social media tags. Failure to include Indiana Campus Compact on all/any of the referenced outlets will result in a loss of funding. All marketing and communication (e.g., press releases, social media, public relations efforts) around the funded project must acknowledge Indiana Campus Compact as the funder and include the Indiana Campus Compact boilerplate. The Indiana Campus Compact Style Guide provides further guidelines for marketing and communication. Indiana Campus compact shall not be abbreviated in any material, created or produced.
All submissions will adhere to the deadlines set forth in the Request for Proposal. All grant funds must be expended no later than May 31, 2022. Any project ending on May 31, 2022 will be required to submit full final reports no later than June 24, 2022; any report not received by that date will automatically be disqualified for funding reimbursements.
All applicants will be expected to submit their full proposal using the Indiana Campus Compact Engagement Portal. All narratives and budget worksheets are required to be uploaded as either Adobe PDF (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx.) or JPEG (.jpg) file types. Multiple files may also be uploaded in a Zip (.zip) folder.
We require each Principal Investigator to create their own individual account for submissions. General accounts by Contract and Grants office will not be accepted.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring their application has been routed through, and approved by, their granting offices (e.g., sponsored program, contracts & grants, or other similar offices) in accordance with their university’s policies for obtaining grants prior to submitting the application to Indiana Campus Compact. Any application not approved by their granting office or properly routed will not be funded.
The PI must seek, in writing, approval from Indiana Campus Compact for any significant changes in the project scope or budget prior to implementing changes.
Indiana Campus Compact reserves the right to use your project’s application and/or grant report as an example of successfully funded projects on the website and/or other print/electronic materials.
Any data and/or results derived from the project shall be the joint property of grantee and Indiana Campus Compact. Neither party will be required to report or account to the other for its use of data and/or results and each shall be free to use data and/or results for any lawful purpose.
By submitting a proposal, you are agreeing to the above stated terms and conditions. In addition, you are agreeing to Indiana Campus Compact’s Terms of Service, Online Privacy, and Non-Discrimination notices.
For more information please contact Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning at laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org
The Indiana Campus Compact logo must be used on any and all printed and/or electronic materials (e.g. flyers, electronic invitations, event handouts, t-shirts, etc.) that result from an Indiana Campus Compact funded project.
You may not alter the logo in any manner.
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Published materials should include a disclaimer that states “Opinions or points of view expressed in this document are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Indiana Campus Compact.”
All press releases promoting an Indiana Campus Compact project must include information about the grant project and credit Indiana Campus Compact as the funder, including the boilerplate below, and must be sent to Liza Blomquist at liza {at} incampuscompact(.)org for approval prior to publishing. Please allow three days for the approval process.
About Indiana Campus Compact
Indiana Campus Compact is a partnership of Indiana’s public, private, and community college higher education institutions focused on advocating, implementing, and improving service engagement, so that students graduate as well-informed, engaged and productive members of society, who are fully enabled to provide leadership and service that advances the public good in their communities. For more information, please visit www.indianacampuscompact.org
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