1. Seed Funding. Where Did Your Money Come from to Fund Start-Up?

1. Seed funding. Where did your money come from to fund start-up? Endowment -- please see below.

Endowment. Do you have an endowment? How was that endowment created? Here in RI we have a philanthropist names Alan Shawn Feinstein. He has endowed most SL programs and Centers throughout RI. Ours is for $1 million and was only meant to fund the Feinstein Enriching America Program (FEAP). This program is a mandatory community service requirement that is part of our Freshman seminar (URI 101) run by our University College.

After the first few years, it became clear that although URI wanted FEAP to be service learning, it was really community service. At the same time, it became clear that URI 101 needed some strengthening. Univeristy College created learning communities around the same time as they created the SL Center. By adding pre and post reflection activities and class instruction about the issues the classes would be focusing on with their community service, FEAP started to make the transition to SL.

Is the endowment used for staff salaries? programs? Etc? Yes, but we don't have any more now than we did when we were just the FEAP. We have about $60,000/year to work with. This year we have almost $20,000 due to the stock market.

One thing that we've done is to combine some programs that were independent or in other departments with the SL Center. For example, the Volunteer Clearinghouse now falls under the Center as does a Reads program.

Institutional Support. How much internal financial support did you receive? Most of this is not financial -- it is office space, supervision, etc. However, the "support" of University College can't be over estimated -- some of my colleagues at other Feinstein funded programs are pretty much on their own.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if I can clarify anything.

Merith Weisman-Ross Coordinator, Feinstein Center for Service Learning 90 Lower College Road, Suite 12 Kingston, RI 02881 phone: 401-874-7422, fax: 401-874-5085 email: [email protected], www.uri.edu/volunteer

2. I answered next to your quwtions - good luck. Helen > Hi All-- > > I am in the process of writing a proposal to create a service-learning > center at my university. This proposal will then be turned over to our > development office to seek seed money. We already have a service-learniong > program in place, but believe that now it is the time to create a > center to > better leverage our resources to help the communities we serve. I was > wondering if folks at colleges and universities with sl centers, or the > equivalent, could help me out with the following questions. > > Seed funding. Where did your money come from to fund start-up? LEearn and Serve America - Corporation for National and community Service > Endowment. Do you have an endowment? How was that endowment created? NO Is > the endowment used for staff salaries? programs? No Etc? > Institutional Support. How much internal financial support did you > receive? We are in operation for two years. Over 3/4 of our funding has come from the Corporation. THeir web address is www.cns.gov. > > Helen J. Streubert Speziale, Ed.D., RN Director, Service Leadership Center Professor, Nursing Department College Misericordia 301 Lake Street Dallas, PA 18612 (570) 674-6203 or (570) 674-6226 [email protected]

3. Hi Francis - congratulations - this sounds like a great opportunity. Although they may not answer all of your questions, the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has two fact sheets that may be helpful as you prepare the proposal - one on institutional structures for SL in higher education, and one on funding SL in higher education: http://www.servicelearning.org/library/fact_sheets/index.html

Also, thanks for sharing a summary of the responses you receive on the listserv - they will be helpful to many people.

Sarena Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

4. We started the IUPUI Office of Service Learning 1993 with a 25% Director (me), a 75% Assistant Director (Julie Hatcher), a 50% secretary, and budget of $50K. We now have, roughly, a staff of 14 (including student employees) and a base budget of $280K, plus $130K America Reads federal work study funds to support a community tutoring program, $100K of internal funds to support a Community Service Scholarship program, and about $100K in external funding. To date, we have not received major funding through gifts or moneys for an endowment (versus grants), but other programs have (e.g., Michigan, Providence, Tufts, Brown).

I am attaching a copy of a ms. that describes some of the evolution of our work. Please understand that this is a draft ms. and we are currently revising it.

Please let me know if I can be of further help.

Bob Bringle

Robert G. Bringle, Ph.D. Director, Center for Service and Learning Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 815 West Michigan Street, UN 3114 Indianapolis, IN 46202

317-278-3499 Fax: 317-278-7683 5. Seed funding. Where did your money come from to fund start-up?

> WE are funded totally with institutional money.

> Endowment. Do you have an endowment? How was that endowment created? Is > the endowment used for staff salaries? programs? Etc? > Institutional Support. How much internal financial support did you > receive? > > Robin G.Fife Assistant Professor of Social Science Director, Service-Learning Program Tusculum College

Tel: (423) 636-7372 Fax: (423) 636-7327, (240) 376-2660 email: [email protected] mail: P.O. Box 5041 Greeneville, TN 37743 http://www.tusculum.edu/