{"id":9905,"date":"2022-06-03T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:56:39","slug":"earn-grants-for-creative-service-learning-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/06\/03\/earn-grants-for-creative-service-learning-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit proposals for Ford grants, earn support for creative service-learning project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second round of proposals has opened for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/mission-vision\/lead-serve\/ford-community-corps.php\">Ford Community Corps Partnerships (FCCP)<\/a> grants. It&#8217;s a great way for Detroit Mercy students to earn grants to provide support for creative service-learning projects.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the next round of proposals is <strong>Friday, June 10, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With these mini-grants from the Ford Fund, students can get leadership training and a generous salary to coordinate these projects. Faculty partners also get a stipend and money for materials.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Detroit Mercy has provided funds for projects, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students from a Political Science class give support for an agency that helps people facing eviction.<\/li>\n<li>Student from a Business Writing class creates Canva templates to help a non-profit organization enhance their social media presence, as well as many others.<\/li>\n<li>Students from a Nursing course provided people facing homelessness with a health resources list.<\/li>\n<li>Law students provided info to youth in a foster care facility about their legal rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/mission-vision\/lead-serve\/pdf\/2011-2019%20project%20summaries.pdf\">Take a look at all previous projects.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested or if you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date with the most recent developments, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/jesuit-community\/tim-hipskind\">Fr. Tim Hipskind, S.J.<\/a>, at <a href=\"mailto:hipskijt@udmercy.edu\">hipskijt@udmercy.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/mission-vision\/lead-serve\/ford-community-corps.php\">More information.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second round of proposals has opened for the Ford Community Corps Partnerships (FCCP) grants. It&#8217;s a great way for Detroit Mercy students to earn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[4076,4077,4078,1365,4079,4421,320,4081],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2zL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10735,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}