Who is Supporting the Colleges and Universities That Are Doing Service-Learning?
Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups, and higher education institutions to facilitate and support service-learning projects. LSA is the largest funder of service-learning programs, supplying grant support for school-community partnerships as well as colleges and universities. It provides training and technical assistance to faculty, teachers, administrators, parents, and schools, as well as the collecting and disseminating of research, effective practices, curricula, and program models so that the highest quality of service-learning is made available for students. The higher education grants are awarded by LSA in two different ways. Funds may be awarded to individual institutions that operate service-learning programs within their schools in order to support those programs. Also, Higher Education Consortia grants are made to a lead organization, which may be a college, university, or nonprofit organization, for a consortium of h