Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity 2024-2025 Allstate Foundation College Service Grants (Up to $10,000 )

In support of The Allstate Foundation‘s youth empowerment strategy, the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) has partnered with them to (re)define youth service for a new generation and empower youth to serve and improve communities. In continuation of this partnership, we are excited to announce the 2024-2025 College Service Grants. The Allstate Foundation has granted more than $1 million toward this program to date.

• Table of Content
• About Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO)
• CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants
• Aim and Benefits of CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants
• Requirements for CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO)

Vision A world where all young people have access to high-quality opportunities to develop essential capacities for navigating an increasingly complex world, reaching their potential, and contributing to their communities. Mission To create opportunity ecosystems of evidence-based tools, learning experiences, and practices that exponentially increase access, optimize program quality, and accelerate impact for every young person. Our goal is to ensure that opportunities for learning and growth are distributed as equally as the abundance of talent in our communities. We accomplish this ... continue reading

CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants

Aim and Benefits of CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants

grants of $10,000 will be distributed to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at community colleges, HBCUs, and other vital higher education institutions across the United States.

These grants are intended to support (re)defining youth empowerment for a new generation and help usher in a return to service for young people in the midst of a global pandemic and quickly evolving technologies.

Requirements for CELO Allstate Foundation College Service Grants Qualification

Eligible Initiatives

Funded initiatives must fall into one of the following categories:

1. Microgrants: Directly provided to students for new, youth-led service initiatives.
2. Access Support: Initiatives that increase student access to service experiences.
3. Increasing Impact: Initiatives that enhance the depth of impact of existing youth-led service activities.

Ineligible Uses of Funds

Grants may not be used for:

• Alternative break/immersion service trips;
• “Re-gifting” funds directly to a charity or cause, or using funding to purchase resources for a charity or cause;
• Support for political campaigns, candidates, parties, or political issues; OR
• Salary support or institutional overhead.

Grant Requirements:

• Funds must be distributed to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at your institution. For the purpose of this grant, community service is defined along a continuum from volunteerism to civic engagement. Significant funding is already directed toward service-learning, so we ask you to consider opportunities beyond that modality. You do not need to launch a new program to receive funding.
• Funds must be spent by May 15, 2025. Given the size and scope of funding, no overhead will be provided. 
• Grantees agree to provide a final grant report outlining the use of funds by June 6, 2025.
• Grantees commit to participating in an in-person convening with The Allstate Foundation and CELO (November 15, 2024).
• Grantees commit to sending at least one youth involved in service from their campus to participate in a virtual focus group coordinated by CELO (Date TBD).
• Grantees commit to contributing success stories and photos of student service work done as part of this grant.
• Grantees may be invited to contribute to media and dissemination efforts. Our goal is to amplify stories of your youth and campus efforts to ignite a renewed and sustainable investment in community service.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Institutions are required to apply by September 27, 2024 for consideration.

For more details visit: CELO website.