Service-Learning Grants

S.T.A.R.S. of Texas Grant
The Texas Center for Service-Learning (TxCSL) of Region 14 Education Service Center received 50 applications for this grant competition, 47 of which met the criteria to be reviewed by external reviewers. The amount of funding requested by applicants totaled $2,280,000. However, the amount of funding available was only $980,000, which resulted in funding for 21 subgrantees representing 12 regions of the state and 60 public school districts. A list of the sites that were recommended for funding is now available (PDF).

K-12 School-Community Partnership Grant Program
This school-based program coordinates the development and institutionalization of service-learning as a teaching and learning method in Texas schools. Funding for the program comes from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Learn and Serve America initiative in collaboration with the Texas Education Agency and Region XIV Education Service Center in Abilene. Visit the K-12 School-Community Partnership Grant Program Page for additional information, forms, reports, and grantees.

Community-Higher Education-School Partnership (CHESP) Program
The collaborative partnership between the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Region 14 Education Service Center (ESC), Region 6 ESC, and the Texas Center for Service-Learning (TxCSL--the office of statewide initiatives for Region 14 ESC) involves seven subgrants to local education agencies (LEAs) that serve as fiscal agents for CHES partnerships. Two regional partnerships work with TxCSL to oversee subgrants through a training and coaching model designed to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities. The goals and associated performance measurements include: (1) improving student academic engagement or performance; (2) improving civic knowledge, skills, attitudes, and/or behaviors among participating youth; (3) strenghthening communities through mutually beneficial service-learning partnerships; (4) involving participating students in at least 20 hours of service-learning activities per year; (5) developing replicable models of service-learning programs that are shared with other sites. The program will result in seven replicable partnership models in the categories of social services, local history, teen leadership, and migrant education. Visit the CHESP Program Page for additional information, forms, reports, and articles.

Homeland Security
The Texas Homeland Security Grant program was developed by the Corporation for National and Community Service as a two-year grant program to tap America's youth as an important resource for local schools and communities planning for and responding to the health, safety, and security concerns associated with natural and man-made disasters. The Texas subgrantees include Austin Independent School District, which is operating the program in an afterschool model in collaboration with other school districts in Central Texas, and the Harris County Department of Education, which is supporting the model through the Teen CERT program in districts in the Houston area.

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