[Air-L] Learn and Serve America Higher Education College Student Social Media Initiative FY 2008

[Robert Cannon]

http://www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=56

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Learn and Serve America Higher Education College
Student Social Media Initiative FY 2008
	

End Date: 5/7/2008
CFDA # 94.005
Contact: 	Learn and Serve America
lsahighered at cns.gov
202-606-7510
  	 

The Corporation for National and Community Service
(the Corporation) announces the availability of
approximately $2.3 million of grant funding to support
the facilitation of better engagement of college
students in service through social media.

Some examples of social media include: social
networking (i.e. Facebook, MySpace, Ning, or
integrating social networking capacity into existing
sites), wikis, podcasts, blogs, RSS feeds, mashups,
social bookmarking, widgets, etc. Successful
applicants must demonstrate how their program can use
these tools to engage increased numbers of college
students, especially in partnership with other
nonprofit or for-profit entities.

The Corporation will make one-time awards of
approximately $100,000 to $750,000 to an estimated
twelve eligible applicants for a project period of up
to three years. While all applicants can build in
funds for subgrants as part of their program model,
the Corporation expects to fund at least one
partnership dedicated primarily to disbursing small
subgrants (under $10,000 each) to seed student-driven
projects. This awardee must promote, review, and award
subgrants using social media. Under this model, it is
expected that the grantee will allocate at least 80%
of funding for subgrants.

Eligible applicants include higher education
partnerships, defined as one or more public or private
nonprofit organizations, or public agencies, including
States, and one or more institutions of higher
education. Thus, all partnerships must include at
least one institution of higher education. Examples of
such partnerships include: a national service-focused
organization and colleges and universities where it
has affiliated chapters; a national non-profit
partnering with a Business School to run a national
subgranting competition; a regional group of
non-profit student organizations working with an
institution of higher education which would serve as
the legal applicant. Applicants should have
demonstrable experience in planning and implementing
significant service, volunteering or technology
programs. 

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