Grants
2007-2008 Academic Year
| Corporation for National and Community Service ($427,324) |
Melissa Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement
Expand service learning to new institutions and K-12 schools in Ohio through the formation of a consortium to: 1) replicate YOUTHLEAD, 2) replicate a core partnership model and 3) infuse innovative strategies for building service structures. While the consortium will be in its formation stage, GCGS will expand to at least ten new higher education institutions that will partner with urban schools throughout the nine urban centers in Ohio (i.e., Columbus, Cincinnati, Springfield, Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Dayton, Canton, and Akron). Year one programming will focus on Cincinnati and Columbus programs and the development of a subgrantee process. Years two and three will focus on dissemination, replication, and expansion across Ohio.
| Chase Bank ($39,000) |
Melissa Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement, and Terry Hermsen, English
Get more information on the Creative Literacy Alliance here.
| Roger Grein: Campus Connects ($18,000) |
Melissa Gilbert, John Kengla, Shirine Mafi, and Diane Nance
This initiative promotes youth philanthropy by funding four courses that allow students to choose which non-profit organizations receive funding based on their service to the community.
Get more information about the Cardinal Philanthropy Colloquium here.
| Columbus City Schools ($8,000) |
John Kengla
Through the Ubuntu mentoring program, Otterbein students attend classes with students from Linden McKinley High School to learn about mentoring skills and practices. These students then mentor Medina Middle School students who participate in College Club
Get more information about Ubuntu here.
| 21st Century: Columbus City Schools ($4,000) |
John Kengla
The Indianola mentoring program allows 7th and 8th grade students to meet with Otterbein students, who serve as their mentors. During their visit, the
mentoring pairs work together on activities that encourage academic
achievement, personal development, and future aspirations.
Get more information about Indianola here.
2006-2007
| Chase Bank ($62,109) |
Melissa Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement, and Jim Gorman, English
This initiative, a collaborative between Otterbein College and Westerville City Schools, will provide a professional development program for teachers, a mentoring and literacy skill-building program for students, and an annual literacy-through-the-arts festival open to the wider community at Genoa Middle School.
Get more information on the Creative Literacy Alliance here.
Past Grants
| NCCEP and SBC ($75,000) |
Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center for Community Engagement
A grant from SBC Communications is helping Otterbein College to provide outreach to four Linden-area public schools with high populations of at-risk students. The grant will fund the Linden Education and Aspiration Program, or LEAP, which shows middle-school students that attaining higher education is possible, no matter their race or income level. Press release. Westerville News & Public Opinion article.
Project Title: Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program - Year 1
Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center of Community Engagement
This initiative, a collaboration among Otterbein College, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Columbus Public Schools, will guide and nurture middle-schoolers' academic progress and aspirations to attend college through the Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program.
Project Title: Otterbein College InVesting in Communities (O-CIVIC)
Bob Gatti and Melissa Kesler Gilbert
Year Two of this Learn & Serve project will continue to meet critical community needs, enhance student learning, engage over 1,000 program participants (faculty, students, staff, alumni, and K-12 teachers and students) through two goals: 1) develop core partnerships with the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and Whittier Elementary, a neighborhood school located one mile from campus; and 2) create a Center for Community Engagement that will stay attuned to community needs and bring together the three spheres of community engagement at Otterbein College: volunteerism, academic-based community service and community-based action research to meet the needs of core partners.
Project Title: The Otterbein College Club Fellows: A Service-Learning Retention Initiative.
Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement
The Otterbein College Club Fellowship Program is a new service-learning initiative to provide a cohort of freshmen and sophomores the opportunity to serve as M3C Fellows at the Center for Community Engagement (CCE). Working in pairs, eight Fellows will coordinate four College Clubs at four high-need Columbus Public middle schools, serving approximately 80 children, 28 Otterbein students, and 30 parents and guardians yearly. Fellows will serve as capacity-builders for each site, recruiting volunteers, designing program activities, and mentoring young middle school students contemplating a future in higher education. In recognition for their service, Fellows will each receive an AmeriCorps Education Award.
Project Title: Mapping the Revolutionary Patriots of Ohio's History
Patti Albaugh - Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Educational Technology students and New Albany Plain Local Middle School students will map the gravesites of some of Licking County's revolutionary war patriots using global positioning systems (GPS) meeting the historic and genealogical goals of the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution and enabling a sister website to the current Knox County Patriot Graves website. Otterbein students will create educational modules emphasizing the obligations of freedom and the responsibilities of citizenship by integrating genealogical research and global information system mapping, which will teach American history and the use of GPS.
Project Title: Get F.I.T. (Families Improving Together) with the Eagles
Patti Wilson - Health & Physical Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Department of Health and Physical Education students and Whittier Elementary School's fifth-grade teachers addresses the community issues of physical inactivity and the obesity epidemic. Together, students will plan activities to improve the overall fitness levels of students, parents and teachers through service activities.
A grant from SBC Communications is helping Otterbein College to provide outreach to four Linden-area public schools with high populations of at-risk students. The grant will fund the Linden Education and Aspiration Program, or LEAP, which shows middle-school students that attaining higher education is possible, no matter their race or income level. Press release. Westerville News & Public Opinion article.
| Columbus Public Schools ($12,000) |
Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center of Community Engagement
This initiative, a collaboration among Otterbein College, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Columbus Public Schools, will guide and nurture middle-schoolers' academic progress and aspirations to attend college through the Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program.
| Corporation for National and Community Service ($124,943) |
Bob Gatti and Melissa Kesler Gilbert
Year Two of this Learn & Serve project will continue to meet critical community needs, enhance student learning, engage over 1,000 program participants (faculty, students, staff, alumni, and K-12 teachers and students) through two goals: 1) develop core partnerships with the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and Whittier Elementary, a neighborhood school located one mile from campus; and 2) create a Center for Community Engagement that will stay attuned to community needs and bring together the three spheres of community engagement at Otterbein College: volunteerism, academic-based community service and community-based action research to meet the needs of core partners.
| Ohio Campus Compact ($8,000) |
Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement
The Otterbein College Club Fellowship Program is a new service-learning initiative to provide a cohort of freshmen and sophomores the opportunity to serve as M3C Fellows at the Center for Community Engagement (CCE). Working in pairs, eight Fellows will coordinate four College Clubs at four high-need Columbus Public middle schools, serving approximately 80 children, 28 Otterbein students, and 30 parents and guardians yearly. Fellows will serve as capacity-builders for each site, recruiting volunteers, designing program activities, and mentoring young middle school students contemplating a future in higher education. In recognition for their service, Fellows will each receive an AmeriCorps Education Award.
| Ohio Campus Compact ($2,500) |
Patti Albaugh - Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Educational Technology students and New Albany Plain Local Middle School students will map the gravesites of some of Licking County's revolutionary war patriots using global positioning systems (GPS) meeting the historic and genealogical goals of the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution and enabling a sister website to the current Knox County Patriot Graves website. Otterbein students will create educational modules emphasizing the obligations of freedom and the responsibilities of citizenship by integrating genealogical research and global information system mapping, which will teach American history and the use of GPS.
| Ohio Campus Compact ($2,500) |
Patti Wilson - Health & Physical Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Department of Health and Physical Education students and Whittier Elementary School's fifth-grade teachers addresses the community issues of physical inactivity and the obesity epidemic. Together, students will plan activities to improve the overall fitness levels of students, parents and teachers through service activities.
