Re: SL Center Start Up Funding

You might want to look at "Establishing and Sustaining and Office of Community
Service," published by Campus Compact, available at 
http://www.compact.org/csds/reading.html.  In addition to suggestions 
on getting start-up funding, it also addresses most of the logistics 
associated with such an endeavor.

Steve

>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?
>    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?
>
>Granger Babcock, Ph.D.
>Assistant to the Dean
>University College
>Louisiana State University
>225-578-2849
>fbabco1@lsu.edu


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Project Associate
Integrating Service with Academic Study
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