News from JRCPF
JRCPF in partnership with the DST, Govt. of India will offer CASE grant across all colleges of Science & Technology in India starting this year. Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF) in partnership with the Department of Science & Technology (DST) http://dst.gov.in/, will be offering the Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant across India to all college students of science and technology starting this year. This will include a nationwide competition among college students for community service projects to solve societal problems and link to their academic programs. Applied innovation (intervention) of Science & Technology by students would be a key component for selection as a winner.
To support the students for this challenge JRCPF and DST will work together to offer coaching, workshops, exhibitions, and other activities. More information to follow.
JRCPF-ServiceBook
View inspiring accounts of student service-learning, community service
projects on ServiceBook:
http://www.servicebook.org/content/view/401/161/
2008 Michigan JRCPA
June 20, 2008 – LANSING, MI – Alma College and Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force received the 2008 Carter Partnership Award. This campus-community partnership was recognized June 19, 2008, at the Fox Theatre in Detroit at the annual Governor’s Service Awards.
2008 Finalists
- Alma College-Pine River SuperFund Citizen Task Force
- Central Michigan University-Communicative Programming for Prisoner Success
- Hope College Interdisciplinary Research Team, Hope College Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA and the Life and Water Development Group, Cameroon
- Partners in Preparing Community Centered Leaders: The Student Leader Fellowship Program at Northern Michigan University and the Community of Marquette
June 3, 2008 – National JRCPA winner announced by President Jimmy
Carter & Mrs. Roslynn Carter in Atlanta!
Portland State University, and 112 community based organizations in Oregon, win
the National-Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus Community
Collaboration for the Watershed Stewardship Program. The announcement was made at
the National Conference of Corporation for National & Community Service at the
world Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This program has led over 27,000 community
volunteers donating a quarter million hours to install 80,000 plants and restore 50
acres of watershed along two miles of river. Individual projects have been led and
supported by 700 students working as part of class projects, resulting in two
master’s theses and three research articles. Read more…
JRCPA-National 2008 Finalists Announced
Following three programs have been selected as the finalists for the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration (JRCPA) as examples of best practices for campus
community partnerships.
The winner will be announced at the CNCS conference and receive the award by President & Mrs. Carter on June 3, 2008. Read more…
JRCPF: Dr. Patrick Crecine
Our beloved board member, John Patrick Crecine passed away on April 29, 2008. He was an inspiration, a scholar and above all a friend. His insight and vision was instrumental in setting the early direction of JRCPF, for which we will be eternally grateful. Read more…
Carter Partnership Award (JRCPA) will be presented by President & Mrs. Carter at the National Conference for Volunteering & Service on June 3, 2008 in Atlanta, Ga. JRCPF is also participating in the Immersion Learning Session to be held at The Carter Center on Monday, June 2, 2008.
Southeastern student awarded Carter Foundation grant.
GE Foundation is donating to JRCPF through its matching funds program.
From the London School of Economics:
The winner of this year’s Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur Grant is
Robin Miller, an MSc in Human Rights student working with the
Kurdish Human Rights Project aimed at providing the Kurdish London
Diaspora with legal support, training, and information to stimulate
dialogue surrounding barriers to rights. As part of this project, there
will be a conference, followed by small round-table discussion, and a
series of training accredited by the Law Society of England and Wales.
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/carterGrant/
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award at the Corporation of National Community Service
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF) will host a Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration (JRCPA) at the annual meeting of the
Corporation for National Community Service (CNCS).
www.servicebook.org/content/view/353/1/
JRCPA-Germany will be held on September 18, 2008 at the University of Mannheim.
www.uni-mannheim.de/english/
CASE coverage in the The Orlando Sentinel
2 Stetson students get Carter backing. The $1,000 grants encourage academic outreach programs in the community.
Two Stetson University student projects are the first in Florida to be awarded Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation’s Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur grants for service programs that incorporate academic learning and community involvement.
CASE Grant announcements made in the follwing states. More to come:
JRCPF partners with Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, to reach college students across India for JRCPF’s global movement of civic engagement.
International Journal of for Service Learning in Engineering announces the CASE Grant:
http://www.engr.psu.edu/IJSLE/Carter.htm
JRCPA winner announced in New Hampshire: Saint Anselm College and Girls Inc.
Mrs. Carter presented the Carter Partnership Trophies and the Carter Certificates of Merit to the winner
in Manchester on Nov. 6, 2007. The partnership also received a check in the amount of $10,000.
The other finalists were Keene State College - Big Brothers Big Sisters and Colby-Sawyer College -
Kearsarge Regional School District. They received the Carter Certificates of Merit and checks in
the amount of $7,000 and $5,000 respectively.
President Carter speaks on Civic Engagement at JRCPA-Germany: See video
JRCPA-Germany President & Mrs. Carter inaugurated JRCPA at the Universität Lüneburg on October 4, 2007. Campus community program from the University of Mannheim won the first prize followed by, Leuphana (University of Lueneburg) and University of Duisburg-Essen.
http://www.leuphana.de/index.php?id=7562
http://www.leuphana.de/
JRCPF and Panjab University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote academic civic engagement through college and university students across the state of Panjab, India and with Witwaterstrand University in Johannesburg, to promote academic civic engagement in South Africa.
Students to win the CASE grants for community service projects is announced in newspapers across India: Hindustan Times, Swatantra Bharat, Aaj, Panjab Kesri, Rashtriya Sahara, Swatantra Chetna, Rashtradoot, Samachar Jagat, Daily News, Mehka Bharat, Seema Sandesh, Jansamasya. On line application in India is exclusively available through our partner website: www.dostpost.com. The announcement for the grants (PDF).
JRCPA-2007 Winner announced at the Governor’s Service Awards in Michigan by Campus Compact: Madonna University and the All Saints Neighborhood Center. (PDF)
Lead Sponsors: Chemical Bank, Corporate Sponsors: Ford Motor Company Fund, Sodexho, Inc, Chartwell’s Higher Education, Central Michigan University, One of the Gold Sponsors: University of Michigan-Dearborn, Silver sponsor: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF)
JRCPF provides grants and awards to recognize the best practices in campus-community partnership programs and the best new ideas for student-led community service projects to solve community based problems. Carter Awards are given to the best campus-community partnership programs, and CASE grants are given for the most innovative community service ideas of students. ServiceBook.org provides an online connectivity for students, faculty, and community. more »
Three Programs of JRCPF
The
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration
(JRCPA) This "hallmark" program of JRCPF recognizes best practices in campus
- community partnerships already in existence, in which there is shared decision
making and academic integration of service. Winners receive the Carter Trophy, a Monetary Award and a
Carter Partnership Certificate, signed by President & Mrs. Carter. (right)
JRCPA Program Description and Criteria
Example Program Video
CNBC
Video
Carter
Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) In the US, UK, Germany, South Africa and across India student proposals with the most innovative ways to serve the community in a competition receive a monetary grant to implement their project and a certificate of merit signed by President and Mrs. Carter (right)
CASE Program Description and Criteria
Example Program
Videos
ServiceBook.org is the online community for academic service learning which
connects students, faculty, administrative staff and community members with
news, service experiences, course materials, JRCPA, CASE application and
more. Visit ServiceBook.org
CASE at the London School of Economics
Examples of grants given to students for projects in countries like Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the US.
Problem: Equipment to sterilize medical instruments requires electricity, which is not available in remote villages.
Solution: A solar-powered autoclave sterilizer developed by a mechanical engineering student with a JRCPF grant.
Problem: Low income neighborhoods lack wheelchair access to residences.
Solution: engineering students designed, purchased materials and installed wheelchair ramps.
Problem: Cottage industry products lack market visibility.
Solution: Computer science student developed a website to broadcast product images and specifications worldwide.
Problem: Petroleum-fueled taxis cost too much for physically handicap adults in low income areas.
Solution: A mechanical engineering student with a grant from JRCPF modified golf carts to run from a solar charging powered station.
Problem: Unsafe drinking water in Barombi village in Camaroon.
Solution: Engineering students used hydraulic design and a water treatment plan to supply potable water.
Problem: Smoke from indoor stoves causes respiratory disease in a refugee camp.
Solution: An economics major developed and distributed improved cook stoves, with training on use and monitoring air quality levels.
Problem: Run-off water from monsoon rains causes floods rather than creating reservoirs.
Solution: Water resource students received a JRCPF grant and trained village residents to plant and nurture vegetation that slows and stores runoff water for the dry season.