Grant Opportunities

The Landis Center for Community Engagement at Lafayette College values the engaged research of our faculty and strives to share opportunities for funding whenever they become available. Please visit often for updates.

Partners for Campus Community Engagement: PCCE’s Civic Imagination Grant program is designed to support community-based organizations and higher ed institutions working together in New York & Pennsylvania whether by proximity or interest in similar topics to address common issues. These grants of up to $3,000 each may focus on one of these types: Partnership and Co-Sponsorship. The Civic Imagination Grants build on partners’ capacity to cultivate civic imagination, deepen civic and community engagement, and strengthen PCCE’s regional communities. This year, we are especially interested in supporting efforts that focus on racial healing, democratic engagement, and climate justice/change.
  • Partnership Grants: Partnership applications (up to $3000) will be co-designed by at least three organizations (campuses and community partners) with at least one PCCE partner serving as the lead applicant.
  • Co-Sponsorship Grants: Co-sponsorship Grants applications (up to $500) will focus on convening around PCCE priorities and partnership development. Registration and promotion support offered by PCCE.

Aligned with PCCE’s mission, Civic Imagination Grants will accomplish this through one of the following focus areas:

  • Issue-focused convening which highlights a community-identified need, gathers    multiple stakeholders synchronizing efforts, and enhances community & economic development such as: diversity, equity, and inclusion, the opioid epidemic, food access & security, community gardens, refugee/immigrant integration, etc.
  • Professional development for campus leaders such as center directors, staff, faculty, or students. Topics may include: faculty development for service/community-based learning, community engaged research, voter engagement, community partnership development and deliberative dialogue.
Learn more about the PCCE Civic Imagination grants
The Teagle Foundation: The Teagle Foundation invites proposals from two- and four-year colleges, universities, higher education consortia, and non-profit entities that share our commitment to the liberal arts and aim to pursue programs under one of their current initiatives:
  • Knowledge for Freedom
  • Cornerstone: Learning for Living
  • Education for American Civic Life
  • Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
Visit the Teagle Foundation grant guidelines page for more information
W.K. Kellogg Foundation is dedicated to racial equity and racial healing, and to developing leaders who engage authentically with their communities. Priorities of the Kellogg Foundation include:
  • Thriving Children
  • Working Families
  • Equitable Communities
Please visit the W.K. Kellogg grantseekers page for more information