CBL Projects and Sponsors

This list provides a sampling of PSU's sponsored CBL projects, and highlights several of the funders, thanks to whom many community-university partnerships are made possible:

Bonner Foundation - Through sustained partnerships with colleges and congregations, the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation seeks to improve the lives of individuals and communities by helping meet the basic needs of nutrition and educational opportunity.

Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund - The Maybelle Clark Macdonald fund is a private grantmaking foundation formed in 1970. It supports the good works of Oregonians with grants to community-based, preselected Oregon nonprofits with whom they have established relationships. PSU receives generous funding from the Fund in support of Student Leaders for Service and several other community-based initiatives.

Oregon's Civic Solutions - 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.

PGE Foundation - Community 101^SM, the signature program of the PGE Foundation, helps high school youth experience the value of community service learning and philanthropy. They learn that they can make a difference by being involved. The program includes student volunteerism and student grant making and is student-led.

Student Leaders for Service - Housed within the Center for Academic Excellence, the Student Leaders for Service program intentionally builds students' leadership capacity to serve and learn with not-for-profit organizations (including K-12 schools) in the Portland metropolitan area. Students commit to a nine-month term of five to ten hours per week and receive a variety of academic and community-based benefits from their work, including a small stipend.