Campus Connects

Campus Connects: A college student philanthropy project

Congratulations to the six Ohio Campuses with winning proposals!

Defiance College
Contact: Laurie Worrall, lworrall@defiance.edu

Three courses have been identified to participate in the piloting of the philanthropy component for Spring; Special Topics in Marketing: Micro-Enterprise Development in the Business Department, Social Problems in the Social Work Program and Global Sustainability in the Natural Science Department and the International and Global Studies Program.

Mercy College of Northwest Ohio
Contact: Candace Tavormina, Candace.Tavormina@mercycollege.edu
Candace Tavormina will be lead instructor for the senior level NUR 430: Community Health Nursing course where philanthropy education will be implemented. The NUR 430 course will be offered in the fall of 2008

Mount Union College
Contact: Susan Denning, denninsk@muc.edu

Mount union will offer four courses: English 240 Business and Technical Writing, Communication226 Persuasion and Social Movements, Business Administration 220 Introduction to Marketing, and Political Science 260 Politics of Public Budgeting.

www2.muc.edu/Newsroom/February08/service_learning_grant_from_campus_connects.aspx

www.the-review.com/news/article/3761091

Otterbein College
Contact: Melissa Kesler Gilbert, mgilbert@otterbein.edu

Otterbein will offer four courses: BADM 300 Principles of Management (two sections), SYE 416 Community Leadership and Change in Non-Profit Organizations, and ART 135 Introduction to Arts Administration. Each of these courses will become part of a “Cardinal Philanthropy Colloquium” to promote collaboration and sustainability.

www.otterbein.edu/academics/cce/philanthropy.asp

University of Cincinnati
Contact: Kathy Dick, Kathy.dick@uc.edu

University of Cincinnati will be offering four courses with the philanthropy component. Four of these courses will come from one of these five: Seminar in Integrated Intercultural Communication, Systematic Innovation II-Entrepreneurship through Interdisciplinary Innovative Applications in Technology and Community Service, Developing Leadership through Service Honors Seminar, Community-Based Environmental Art, and Research in Social Work.

Walsh University
Contact: Shauntey James, sjames@walsh.edu

Walsh University will be incorporating the philanthropy component into one course, Social Problems, which will commence in the spring of 2008.

INTRODUCTION

Roger Grein is an active philanthropist from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. He is passionate about helping college students understand philanthropy by giving them an opportunity to be philanthropists and to become engaged with the local community at the grassroots level. Inspired by the Mayerson Student Philanthropy Project at Northern Kentucky University, Mr. Grein’s goal is to build a sustainable model of academic student philanthropy that can be replicated across the country and, perhaps, across the globe. Mr. Grein strongly believes that whether today’s college student ends up teaching in a classroom, serving as the CEO of an organization, researching global climate change, or millions of other possibilities, that student will benefit from knowing what it takes to create and support healthy communities.

The Campus Connects Student Philanthropy Project helps students learn how to be engaged citizens and to understand the important role philanthropy plays in the health of our communities, of our nation and of the world.

Campuses will be selected to participate in the Student Philanthropy Project based on the application process outlined in this document.


PROJECT GOALS

• To provide students with the knowledge and practical experience needed to manage philanthropic funding. The student learning will occur within a credit bearing academic course, consistent with the course content and goals. The intent is to have the study of philanthropy embedded in courses across the curriculum in such diverse disciplines as computer science or nursing, biology or teacher education, accounting or foreign language studies. In alignment with the course objectives, philanthropy topics could include community needs assessment, establishing funding criteria, data gathering, interviewing techniques, and outcome assessment. The ultimate goal is to grant funds to support non-profit organizations that are addressing community needs.

• To engage students and faculty with communities different from their own.
This engagement will help to promote understanding and the development of on-going reciprocal partnerships between the community and the college.

• To create an academic student philanthropy model that can be replicated on other college campuses across the country.

• To actively seek other philanthropists who will financially support the use of this model in many locations. Mr. Grein feels that there are other individuals and organizations across the country who are interested in increasing the participation of college aged youth in philanthropy and he wants to invite them to join him in this endeavor.

ELIGIBILITY

A higher education institution must be a Campus Compact member in good standing in Ohio or Kentucky and agree to the commitments in the Roles and Responsibilities section. The Campus Connects Student Philanthropy Project will fund approximately 32 philanthropy courses at institutions of higher education in Ohio and Kentucky.

TIMELINE

November 7, 2007 Application deadline
November 2007 Announcement of selected institutions
November 2007 Successful institutions conduct faculty selection process
Several dates TBD Training for Campus Teams
Spring Term Faculty conduct philanthropy courses

APPLICATION PROCESS

Campuses will be selected competitively by those who best meet the criteria. Because this is a 4-year project, this is a one-time application. Grants are renewable for up to four years, pending continued funding and satisfactory involvement on the part of the higher education institution.

The Campus Connects Student Philanthropy Project intends to develop future funding for more philanthropy courses. Information about such opportunities will be distributed by the Ohio and Kentucky campus compact offices.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee that includes individuals representing Roger Grein, OCC, KyCC, and higher education institutions in both Ohio and Kentucky. Decisions of the review committee are final and not subject to appeal.

Because this project will be most successful with strong administrative support, preference will be given to campuses that have a VISTA member/designated staff member who will serve as the campus liaison. In addition, preference will be given to campuses that have the capacity to set up restricted accounts that can receive contributions to a specific project such as the Campus Connects Student Philanthropy Project.


Please contact, in Ohio, Jennifer Irwin at occirwin@alink.com or, in Kentucky, Missy Gish at gishm@nku.edu with questions about this program.

Jennifer Irwin
Ohio Campus Compact
615 N. Pearl Street
Granville, OH 43023
Phone: 740-587-8573
Fax: 740-587-8569
Email: occirwin@alink.com

Missy Gish, Program Coordinator
Kentucky Campus Compact
Nunn Drive, Founders Hall
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Phone: 859-572-5256
Fax: 859-572-1445
Email: gishm@nku.edu