Seeking grant reviewers for Social Media initiative

The Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education is looking for Grant Reviewers for a special initiative sponsored by the Corporation.

This special Social Media initiative, supported by a $450,000 grant from Learn and Serve America over three years, encourages college students to use social media tools such as Ning, Facebook, WordPress, Flickr, YouTube, Myspace, and Twitter to support service-learning projects in their communities. Students take a conventional service or service-learning project and enhance it by using existing technology and free social media to:

Reflect on what they've learned

We've designed a subgrant process and have released an RFP (which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/dyw34e) that focuses on engaging college students in service-learning using social media to recruit, collaborate, reflect and report on service-learning projects. Successful applicants will address how their proposed work will meet the goals. A project might involve a religious studies class using LibraryThing to create an online catalog of a church library, or a chemistry class doing lead paint abatement in older homes and recruiting painting helpers through Facebook, or a student business organization working with a nonprofit through a wiki to develop a business plan.

We need volunteers to review approximately three grants each, that are about 3-6 pages, between the dates of May 22, 2009 - June 5, 2009. An informational conference call will be provided on May 28, 2009. For more information about this initiative go to our website: http://studentsbeyondboundaries.org.

If interested, please contact Deborah Eisloeffel, Interim Executive Director, at:

Email: info@midwestconsortium.org
Phone: 402-472-9638
Fax: 402-472-8140