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Oregon Civic Solutions:
Statewide Partnerships for Public Service

» Current Oregon Civic Solutions Projects

» Overview
Oregon Campus Compact, in partnership with Portland State University, launched the Oregon Civic Solutions: Statewide Partnerships for Public Service initiative in fall, 2003. 28 grants have been awarded to support projects that build civic skills among students while engaging in public problem-solving focused on three of the state’s most pressing social concerns. This effort is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and its Learn and Serve America program, whose charge is to engage all Americans in service across the life span.

» The Civic Solutions initiative has three overarching goals:

1) Focusing Higher Education
Galvanize the state’s private/public colleges and universities to focus their faculty, students, staff and other institutional resources on three of Oregon’s most pressing social issues: decreasing hunger, enhancing K-12 education, and reducing the state’s urban-rural divide;

2) Civics Education
Support enhanced civic education programming and specific civic skill development at all participating post secondary institutions;

3) Building community capacity
Promote sustained, reciprocal partnerships between higher education and community and faith-based organizations that increase the community’s capacity to address the identified issues.

Oregon Civic Solutions will actualize these goals by awarding sub-grants, convening and/or co-sponsoring events, and organizing comprehensive training and technical assistance activities.