The Public Good Fund is provided by the Provost and managed by the Center for Community
Engagement and Service Learning to support faculty and staff conducting innovative
community-based research.
Since its inception in 2004, the Fund has provided $100,000 annually to support small
grants for faculty and staff engaged in public good scholarship. These funds are awarded
in a competitive process facilitated by the Public Good Fund Distribution Committee. As a result of this institutional commitment, University faculty and staff have
developed Public Good projects since 2004.
Public Good Fund RFP AY2011-2012
For more information please contact Anne DePrince, anne.deprince@du.edu, or 303-871-2939.
Manuel Del Real
DU Student, Class of 2009 and 2011
Every time I look at the murals, it gives me great pride as an alumnus to be able to see students make a change...Being a coach has also helped me realize I am the mentor that I used to look up to.
Hava Gordon
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Last year, I taught a Service Learning FSEM: "Youth Cultures: Inequality, Resistance, and Empowerment." This was the first time teaching my FSEM as a service learning class, and it was an amazing experience. With the help of my wonderful Service Learning Associate, Cameron Lewis, our class partnered with "The Spot" youth center and Rainbow Alley. Both organizations work to empower teens by providing a safe and creative space for low-income, homeless, and LGBTQ youth. FSEM students joined outreach workers at The Spot on night walks around the city, distributing needed items to homeless youth. Students also participated in consciousness-raising workshops at Rainbow Alley, connecting with Rainbow Alley youth through these workshops."
Emelyne Neff
Coach at Bruce Randolph School
PA is a chance to live outside the DU bubble and to build strong, powerful relationships with young people thirsting for truth, justice and freedom...I can't get enough of if it. The changes on an individual and group level are tangible and beautiful. I feel like I'm making a difference and am the recipient of change as much as an agent of change.
