College Service Grants by Allstate Foundation 2024-2025

Summary

• Application DeadlineSeptember 27, 2024
• Value$10,000
• Study LevelTraining
• SponsorCenter for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO)

Table of Content

• Overview
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Programme Overview

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. In continuation of this partnership,and the deadline for the application is on the 27th of september 2024.

Benefits

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 to support (re)defining youth empowerment for a new generation and help usher in a return to service for young people amid a global pandemic and quickly evolving technologies.

Requirements

Funded initiatives must fall into one of the following categories:

1. Microgrants: Directly provided to students for new, youth-led service initiatives.
2. Access Support: Initiatives that increase student access to service experiences.
3. 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.

Application Deadline

September 27, 2024

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) on docs.google.com to apply

For more details, visit CELO website.