The Center for Social Impact is committed to supporting faculty in their service-learning scholarship by offering a number of fellowships and grants. These include Community-Based Participatory Research Service-Learning Fellows, High-Impact Matching Grants, and Service-Learning Fellowships.
Designated Departments
If you are interested in designating your department as a Service-Learning Designated Department, please return the completed application to Dr. Jonathan Westover at [email protected].
College of Humanities and Social Studies
Woodbury School of Business
College of Health and Public Services
School of Education
College of Science
College of Technology and Computing
Community-Based Participatory Research Service-Learning Fellows
This award supports faculty led high-impact service-learning classroom projects that benefit students, the university, and the community partner through a competitive selection process, with the chosen fellow receiving up to $5,000 in funding.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jonathan Westover at [email protected].
High-Impact Grants
Awarded projects involve classroom-centered service-learning with clearly defined
and measurable deliverables for community partners. These high impact community projects
immerse students into real-world, applied experiences with a community partner. Students
benefit by delivering a high-end professional project that will provide significant
return on investment for their community partner organization, thus fostering/strengthening
ongoing external relationships within the community.
High-Impact Community Partnership project funding gives faculty the opportunity to
receive matching funds to support projects with community partners. High Impact Community
Partnership SEED Grants are part of the Grants for Engaged Learning (GEL).
For more information, please contact Dr. Jonathan Westover at [email protected].
Past Service-Learning Fellows and Grant Recipients
Fellowship Recipients
Grant Recipients
CBPR List of names
HIMG names
Service-Learning Mini-Grants
Beginning in Fall 2017, we began a rolling submission cycle of Service-Learning Mini-Grant proposals to support you in your service-learning efforts and class projects. Academic Service-Learning has limited funding available to offer small monetary amounts (up to $500) to assist in implementing community-engaged experiential learning projects in your SL-designated courses.
Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow
Utah Valley University’s Innovation Academy and Center for Social Impact are pleased to announce a call for proposals for the new Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow program (for a semester or full academic year). The purpose of the Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow program is to support academic social impact projects, which should benefit UVU students, our campus community, and our surrounding community.
The visiting faculty chosen to be a Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow will receive office space, admin support, and a project budget* from the Center for Social Impact to assist them in implementing a high-impact community-based social impact project (ideally involving students in multiple service-learning courses, and over multiple semesters if the duration of the fellowship is a full academic year).
The Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow will also be expected to work closely with the student Impact Fellows in the UVU Center for Social Impact in developing events for UVU students and the surrounding community related to their proposed social impact project. The visiting fellowship is housed in the UVU Center for Social Impact, in collaboration with UVU's Innovation Academy. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
*See additional details in Call for Proposals or contact Dr. Jonathan Westover at [email protected].
