{"id":458656,"date":"2010-03-18T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compact.org\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2010-03-18T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:04:03","slug":"west-virginia-campus-compact-receives-250000-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458656","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Campus Compact receives $250,000 grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashley Schumaker
\nDirector of Communications
\nHigher Education Policy Commission
\n304-558-0699 – office
\n304-382-3071 – cell<\/p>\n

Charleston, W.Va. \u2013 West Virginia Campus Compact, a statewide initiative sponsored by\u00a0the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and housed at West Virginia University,\u00a0has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to\u00a0create a civic engagement service learning model involving training and mini-grants to\u00a0partnerships between member colleges and community organizations.<\/p>\n

West Virginia Campus Compact, which is part of a national coalition of more than 1,100\u00a0colleges and universities representing approximately six million students, is comprised of 26\u00a0member institutions, including public and private and four-year and two-year colleges and\u00a0universities. By encouraging civic engagement in higher education, the program provides\u00a0opportunities for students to engage in service learning and community service.<\/p>\n

“West Virginia Campus Compact is grateful and pleased to receive this award,\u201d said\u00a0Franchesca Nestor, the program\u2019s director. \u201cAs a result of this funding, we will be able to\u00a0create strong links between our campuses and communities, leading to the kind of long term\u00a0and important partnerships that can make a difference for our students, our citizens, and our\u00a0state. It is our hope that the model, which will be generated by this grant, can be implemented\u00a0again and again between equal campus and community partners for years to come.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI applaud Ms. Nestor and the state\u2019s colleges and universities for embracing the role and<\/div>\n
mission of Campus Compact,\u201d said Dr. Brian Noland, HEPC chancellor. \u201cCampus Compact<\/div>\n
provides a link between students and the local community in which they live and learn. This<\/div>\n
link fosters strong community ties for students, while positively impacting the lives of local<\/div>\n
residents.\u201d<\/div>\n
The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in<\/div>\n
1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West<\/div>\n
Virginia. They named the Foundation in memory of their only child, Claude Worthington<\/div>\n
Benedum, who died in 1918 at age 20. Grants are made in the areas of education, economic<\/div>\n
development, civic engagement, health and human services, and community development to<\/div>\n
advance specific initiatives in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania. The grant will be<\/div>\n
administered by the West Virginia University Foundation.\u201cI applaud Ms. Nestor and the state\u2019s colleges and universities for embracing the role and\u00a0mission of Campus Compact,\u201d said Dr. Brian Noland, HEPC chancellor. \u201cCampus Compact\u00a0provides a link between students and the local community in which they live and learn. This\u00a0link fosters strong community ties for students, while positively impacting the lives of local\u00a0residents.\u201d<\/div>\n

The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in\u00a01944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West\u00a0Virginia. They named the Foundation in memory of their only child, Claude Worthington\u00a0Benedum, who died in 1918 at age 20. Grants are made in the areas of education, economic\u00a0development, civic engagement, health and human services, and community development to\u00a0advance specific initiatives in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania. The grant will be\u00a0administered by the West Virginia University Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Ashley Schumaker Director of Communications Higher Education Policy Commission 304-558-0699 – office 304-382-3071 – cell Charleston, W.Va. \u2013 West Virginia Campus Compact, a statewide initiative sponsored by\u00a0the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and housed at West Virginia University,\u00a0has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to\u00a0create a civic engagement service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}