Jimmy & Rosylnn Carter Foundation
This program recognizes the best academic service work of students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities as they partner with community groups and community agencies. Students may qualify for a $1,000 grant to initiate their program. Applicants are required to propose meaningful projects that create or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and a community non-profit organization. The grant is generously sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and invests in young service entrepreneurs based on their proposed contribution to the work of a community organization. For more information, visit
www.jrcpf.org.
Past recipients
Danielle Fabian
The grant will be used to implement her innovative community service program, Granola Girls, a health and wellness program that is designed to educate members of the Girl Scouts’ Bonds Beyond Bars program participating in Otterbein's Troop 1847 program on health issues facing teenage girls, and to unite them as a group of healthy girls who will educate their communities.
Whitney Prose
The grant will continue the Otterbein Lake project with her CardinalCorps service program, "Plan-It Earth." Their goal is the continued transformation of an overgrown sterile pond into a natural place that can be enjoyed by the local community. The grant will fund the development of a path around a portion of Otterbein Lake and the creation of a native plants garden. In addition, Laser-engraved plant markers designed by Otterbein students will help visitors identify the types of native plants found at Otterbein Lake. Other project activities include expanding the annual summer festival that brings the community out to the lake to learn about native plants and animals.
Chelsea Merriman
The grant will help with Chelsea's proposal, "Grow Something With Them," which builds on the partnership between Otterbein and the United Methodist Children's Home (UMCH). In this program, student volunteers work with residents of UMCH to grow and maintain a garden of vegetables, herbs, and flowers to be sold at a local market. In addition to educating green thumbs, the project will include practical lessons on finance and the market economy.