Provided by The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity
In support of The Allstate Foundation’s youth empowerment strategy, the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) has partnered with them to (re)define youth service for a new generation and empower youth to serve and improve communities. You can read more about the work HERE.
As part of that strategy, grants of $10,000 will be distributed to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at community colleges, HBCUs, and other vital higher education institutions across the United States. These grants are intended to support (re)defining youth empowerment for a new generation and help usher in a return to service for young people in the midst of a global pandemic and quickly evolving technologies.
Institutions are required to apply by September 27, 2024 for consideration.
Eligible Initiatives
Funded initiatives must fall into one of the following categories:
- Microgrants: Directly provided to students for new, youth-led service initiatives.
- Access Support: Initiatives that increase student access to service experiences.
- Increasing Impact: Initiatives that enhance the depth of impact of existing youth-led service activities.
Ineligible Uses of Funds
Grants may not be used for:
- Alternative break/immersion service trips;
- “Re-gifting” funds directly to a charity or cause, or using funding to purchase resources for a charity or cause;
- Support for political campaigns, candidates, parties, or political issues; OR
- Salary support or institutional overhead.
Grant Requirements:
- Funds must be distributed to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at your institution. For the purpose of this grant, community service is defined along a continuum from volunteerism to civic engagement. Significant funding is already directed toward service-learning, so we ask you to consider opportunities beyond that modality. You do not need to launch a new program to receive funding.
- Funds must be spent by May 15, 2025. Given the size and scope of funding, no overhead will be provided.
- Grantees agree to provide a final grant report outlining the use of funds by June 6, 2025.
- Grantees commit to participating in an in-person convening with The Allstate Foundation and CELO (November 15, 2024).
- Grantees commit to sending at least one youth involved in service from their campus to participate in a virtual focus group coordinated by CELO (Date TBD).
- Grantees commit to contributing success stories and photos of student service work done as part of this grant.
- Grantees may be invited to contribute to media and dissemination efforts. Our goal is to amplify stories of your youth and campus efforts to ignite a renewed and sustainable investment in community service.
Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC610PFE96V_PxFTpvOhJBStsDh97SwDzHLFUVmD7uplkzUQ/viewform
