Professional Development Series!
November 12th from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Facilitated by Patrick M. Green, EdD,
Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS), and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago.

Engaged scholarship invites us to address the intersections of practice, community, theory, collaborative knowledge creation, research, and our identities as scholars, practitioners, and everything in between. This session will invite you to engage in reflection on how your identity as a scholar-practitioner may open up lines of inquiry for you to connect your practice to scholarship – and thus, fill the theory-practice gap.

Members organizations of the national Alliance for Campus Community Engagement, including Partners for Campus-Community Engagement, will award $165,000 in 2026Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of ServiceGrants to colleges and universities throughout the region and country to support their student volunteer generating programs and events on or around the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January 2026. Events and projects must occur between January 5 - 26, 2026, without exception. Final grant reports are due by Friday, January 30, 2026.

PCCE member campuses are invited to apply for up to $5,000 to support their MLK, Jr. National Day of Service student volunteer event by Friday, November 14, 2025.

Please click here to access the grant RFP to learn about the types of events and projects that this grant can support, as well as information about a required grant match, grant recipient background information, and final reporting information. Please carefully review the document.

Priority will be given to proposals from PCCE member campuses; however, applications from non-member campuses may also be considered according to funding availability.

Should applicants be awarded a grant, project coordinators must commit to completing a Criminal Background History Check at no financial cost to the grantee by December 12, 2025; agree to demonstrating an approximate grant match of 70% via in-kind staff salary, office space, and/or in-kind supplies and institutional expenditures in support of the event; and submit a final grant report by January 30, 2026 (information will be provided to grantees to assist with these requirements).

Clarification about the grant match: the match that grantees will be asked to demonstrate through direct in-kind contributions is a 7:3 (70% to 30%) dollar-for-dollar match to the grant amount. As such, a campus receiving a $1,000 grant should aim to demonstrate an in-kind match of approximately $2,333. For a $2,000 grant, the figure is approximately $4,667. For $5,000, it is approximately $11,667.

Applications are due by no later than 11:59PM EST on Friday, November 14, 2025.

Join us December 4th from 9:30 - 10:30 AM for session 3 of 3 for the Government & Community Relations Community of Practice.

BROAD COALITION SECURES INJUNCTION RESTORING KEY FUNDING TO AMERICORPS

Press Release | July 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction halting the Trump Administration’s plan to dismantle AmeriCorps operations.

"Today’s ruling is an important victory for communities across the country that rely on the work of AmeriCorps," said Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund. "From rural towns to tribal nations to urban neighborhoods, AmeriCorps provides critical services to people in need. This ruling makes clear that you don’t get to erase that on a whim – an illegal one.”