Seminar Grants
In addition to fifteen Well-Being Research Grants, BTtoP awarded forty-eight Well-Being Seminar Grants for up to $1,000 as part of the 2015-2017 RFP. These awards provide support for campus-wide planning discussions that allow focused attention to creating and maintaining an engaged culture for learning through a particular dimension of the student or faculty well-being, such as purposefulness, resilience, belonging, identity, and flourishing. BTtoP’s hope is that these well-being Seminars deepen participants’ understanding of the institution’s commitment to developing the policies and practices, both inside and outside the curriculum, that support the full well-being of its constituents. For a full list of those instutitions awarded BTtoP grants for the 2015-2017 funding period, please click here. For information on grant reporting, please click here.
Under the 2012-2014 RFP, BTtoP awarded hundreds of Seminar Grants for up to $1,000 for institutions to bring together diverse members of the campus community for a half-day or longer facilitated conversation (“seminar”) that resulted in the planning, implementation, and assessment of actions consistent with the context and mission of the institution. Nineteen Grants were also funded in 2010-2012 as part of the Civic Seminar Initiative. Seminar Grant reporting guidelines can be found here.
Mini Grants
Under RFP's from 2004-2012, the Project awards mini-grants of $2500 on a rolling basis to support activities that address the goals of the BTtoP Project.
Examples of funded projects include:
- Establishing a task-force to develop and implement a campus-wide survey to assess the alcohol and drug use.
- Improving coordination of service learning effort across disciplines, schools and community partners and improve monitoring and evaluation of existing service-learning programs.
- Professional development activities for faculty focusing to encourage student referrals to counseling services and other campus services addressing student mental health and substance abuse.
- Organizing a day-long series of activities including an all-campus forum, class visits, and workshops with faculty, members of the counseling center and the Center for Public Service, and students.
- Under the 2007-2010 RFP, grants of $250 were also available to student-led clubs and organizations that initiated groups or programming around the objectives of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP). In addition, Student Programming Grants with faculty supervision were applied for under the Mini Grant category with funding available for up to $2,500.
Student Programming Grants
Under the 2007-2010 RFP, grants of $250 were available to student-led clubs and organizations that initiated groups or programming around the objectives of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP). In addition, Student Programming Grants with faculty supervision were applied for under the Mini Grant category with funding available for up to $2,500.
