The Corporation for National and
Community Service (the Corporation) announces the availability of approximately
$2.3 million of grant funding to support the facilitation of better engagement
of college students in service through social media.

Some examples of social media
include: social networking (i.e. Facebook, MySpace, Ning, or integrating social
networking capacity into existing sites), wikis, podcasts, blogs, RSS feeds,
mashups, social bookmarking, widgets, etc. Successful applicants must
demonstrate how their program can use these tools to engage increased numbers of
college students, especially in partnership with other nonprofit or for-profit
entities.

The Corporation will make
one-time awards of approximately $100,000 to $750,000 to an estimated twelve
eligible applicants for a project period of up to three years. While all
applicants can build in funds for subgrants as part of their program model, the
Corporation expects to fund at least one partnership dedicated primarily to
disbursing small subgrants (under $10,000 each) to seed student-driven projects.
This awardee must promote, review, and award subgrants using social media. Under
this model, it is expected that the grantee will allocate at least 80% of
funding for subgrants.

Eligible applicants include
higher education partnerships, defined as one or more public or private
nonprofit organizations, or public agencies, including States, and one or more
institutions of higher education. Thus, all partnerships must include at least
one institution of higher education. Examples of such partnerships include: a
national service-focused organization and colleges and universities where it has
affiliated chapters; a national non-profit partnering with a Business School to
run a national subgranting competition; a regional group of non-profit student
organizations working with an institution of higher education which would serve
as the legal applicant. Applicants should have demonstrable experience in
planning and implementing significant service, volunteering or technology
programs.

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