Engaged Opportunity Grants
Forecasted
Engaged Opportunity Grants support Cornell and community partners in developing and sustaining undergraduate learning opportunities that address community concerns and deliver reciprocal benefits.
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Funder: Cornell University
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Spring application) | November 2027 (Fall application)
Funding Amounts: Planning: up to $5,000 over one year; Sustaining: up to $5,000 over two years, with at least $5,000 in matching funds
Summary: Supports Cornell–community partnerships that address community concerns and expand undergraduate community-engaged learning.
Key Information: Teams must include Cornell and community partners; applicants from designated Engaged Colleges need eligible cross-college or administrative-unit collaborators.
Description
Cornell University’s David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement administers these grants to support campus-community partnerships addressing issues important to communities. The program advances the university-wide goal of providing all Cornell undergraduates with community-engaged learning. Cornell and community partners should collaborate throughout project development, implementation and assessment, with reciprocal benefits and measurable community impact.
Planning grants build partnerships, identify networks and pilot learning programs. Sustaining grants help assess, improve and embed existing opportunities so future students can participate. Supported activities include credit and non-credit learning, broader-impact research, student preparation, events and documentation, public-issue awareness, and assessment of student learning and community outcomes. Priority goes to lasting undergraduate learning opportunities and disciplines or departments with fewer community-engaged learning or research opportunities.
