Current Grants

Please visit the Grants section of the current Digest newsletter for a national listing.

2009-10 Grant Opportunities

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
MLK Challenge 2010 - North Carolina

Now Closed!

Visit this link for the list of North Carolina grantees.

2008-09 Grant Highlights

 The Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant for Campus-Community Collaboration

This partnership between NC Campus Compact and the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation allowed NC Campus Compact to provide three $1000 grants to North Carolina students who proposed the most innovative and promising use of the grant funds to establish or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his/her school) and a community non-profit organization.  Administered by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation, this grant is sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and seeks to foster academic-service learning at American colleges and universities. 

2008 CASE Recipients

Tim E. Easley            
Appalachian State University           

Tim will use the $1000 CASE grant to support, strengthen and expand Appalachian’s partnership with the Mountain Alliance, Inc.  Mountain Alliance is a nonprofit organization at Watauga High School that strives to empower students of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds to be actively engaged in their learning experiences and to succeed in the academic environment.  They do this through providing experiential learning opportunities that involve leadership, service and adventure. The funds will be used to purchase and maintain bikes and equipment so that Tim and other students from ASU’s Recreation Management program can assist in the launch of a new biking program.   

Faculty Associate: Eric Frauman, Recreation Management faculty member 

Final Grant Report

Mary Moore Lowenfield

Davidson College 

Mary will use the $1000 CASE grant to support, strengthen and expand Davidson’s partnership with The Ada Jenkins Center. The Ada Jenkins Center is a community center that works to improve the quality of life for the residents of north Mecklenburg and south Iredell through the integrated delivery of health, education, and human services.  Davidson College students currently volunteer with the LearnWorks afterschool program which aids at-risk youth in grades 1-5 with homework and activities.  With the funds, Mary will help launch “ART at Ada” a program in which Mary and other Studio Art majors will integrate art into the afterschool program activities.  The funds will be used to purchase art supplies and materials for the Center.    

Faculty Associate: Stacey Riemer, Assistant Dean of Students for Community Service

Robert Stephens

UNC-Chapel Hill 

Rob will use the $1000 CASE grant to support, strengthen and expand UNC’s partnership with St. Joseph’s CME Church.   This year UNC established Northside Community Now (UNC-NOW), a university-community partnership, housed at St. Joseph’s CME Church,  which involves providing digital access to the community, collaborating with area high schools to provide pre-college support for high potential/high risk students, creating oral history archives, pursuing collaborative youth audio and visual documentary projects and supporting and expanding food distribution and health ministries.  The funds will be used to purchase materials that support the creation of a Saving-and-Making History Center, a community-based public history workshop and resource center. The remaining funds will be used to repair the van used in the food bank program, one of the only ones in the state where people get to choose their own groceries including fresh produce picked up from the local grocery stores every day.

Faculty Associate:  Della Pollock

MLK Challenge 2009 – North Carolina

In 2009 NC Campus Compact disseminated $7,700 in mini-grants to 23 member campuses throughout the state (see list below). These campuses mobilized 2002 volunteers to serve on 124 projects. NC Campus Compact awarded $7,000 in funds to 18 institutions (listed below) throughout the state to promote the MLK Challenge on the 2009 MLK Day of Service.  

Vote Initiative

For the 2008 election, NC Campus Compact funded eleven $500 voter mini-grants to member campus in order improve voter registration, turnout and education on campuses and their surrounding communities.  These mini-grants will help create and supplement a wide range of voter initiatives on campuses throughout North Carolina. Grant recipients collaborated with local election boards, first-year orientation classes, faculty, staff and students in a wide variety of voter efforts.

Grant recipients include: Davidson County Community College, Elon University, Gardner-Webb University, Lees-McRae University,   NC A&T University, NC Central University, NC State, UNC-Pembroke, Warren Wilson College, Western Carolina University and Wingate University.

2007-08 Grant Highlights

C.A.S.E. Grant

On November 10, 2007, NC Campus Compact awarded two Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grants for Campus-Community Collaboration. This grant was awarded to two NC Campus Compact students with the most innovative and promising ideas to use the $1000 grant to establish or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and acommunity non-profit organization.   

Funding for these grants is provided by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation.

Photo:  Amanda Lawing (UNC-Greensboro) and Joseph Hamby (Gardner-Webb University) pose with Dr. Lisa Keyne, NC Campus Compact Executive Director after receiving their C.A.S.E. grants on November 10, 2007.

Click here for an overview of the 2007 CASE Awards and the winner project descriptions.

Click here to read the final report from Amanda Lawing's project.

Click here to read the final report from Joseph Hamby's project.

Click here for an overview of the 2006 CASE Awards and the winner project descriptions.

2008 MLK Challenge Mini-Grants

On December 7, 2007, NC Campus Compact announced the recipients of the 2007 MLK Challenge mini-grants.  Each campus received $300 to support their 2008 MLK Day service events.  In addition, all NC Campus Compact member campuses received an MLK Challenge toolkit to provide a model for how to conduct an MLK service event.  These efforts were possible through a grant from the Points of Light Foundation.

Visit this link for the 2008 list of recipients and project highlights.