Community Stewardship Corps Program Series
To align efforts around meeting youth where they are in life and helping them prepare for life’s next steps, Oregon Youth Corps provides the Community Stewardship Corps (CSC) program series. The CSC program series now supports two grant opportunities:
Grants under this program series now advance Oregon Youth Corps Imperatives through the following:
- On-the-Job Training grants
- Service Learning Education grants
Grants under this program series now advance Oregon Youth Corps Imperatives through the following:
- Increase access to youth participants from communities of color, rural communities, communities that have faced generational poverty or other communities that have been historically underrepresented in youth employment.
- Strengthen communities and natural landscapes through stewardship project experiences.
- Provide workforce opportunities to prepare youth with skills ready to compete for future work opportunities.
- Provide youth participants access to discover personal and professional career, educational, and outdoor pathways.
Service Learning Education Grants
This grant replaces what was known in previous years as the Community Stewardship Corps grant. A Service-Learning Education grant focuses on supporting organizations/entities that provide educational attainment as the primary benefit for youth participants. Organization/entities deliver opportunities through interconnected stewardship focused service-learning educational experiences. Service learning incorporates organized community projects that meet actual community needs, while being linked to educational learning outcomes and career related knowledge and skills through a cycle of service and reflection.
The grant provides funding to organizations/entities to focus on youth with specific educational needs. Youth participants gain valuable education, employment and leadership skills while learning work ethic and environmental knowledge through integrated classroom and field-based learning projects. Successful Service Learning Education grant programs involve a collaboration of many community organizations. It is essential that programs be connected to the school system and that a method for awarding credit or earning a GED is in place.
Grant Priorities:
The grant provides funding to organizations/entities to focus on youth with specific educational needs. Youth participants gain valuable education, employment and leadership skills while learning work ethic and environmental knowledge through integrated classroom and field-based learning projects. Successful Service Learning Education grant programs involve a collaboration of many community organizations. It is essential that programs be connected to the school system and that a method for awarding credit or earning a GED is in place.
Grant Priorities:
- Advance educational attainment, including earning academic credit, high school equivalency certificate, college credit, and/or vocational training and certifications.
- Stewardship focused learning experiences that teach both technical skills and essential employability skills to prepare a future ready workforce.
- Connecting participants with options for future career and education experiences.
On-the-Job Training Grants
This grant replaces what was formally known as the Summer Corps and shifts away from a summer specific focus to increase participant access to paid on-the-job training experiences all throughout the whole. The primary purpose of this grant is to provide funding to organizations/entities that can provide the primary benefit of preparing youth participants to meet the needs of the future workforce by teaching/providing work readiness instruction around essential employability and technical skills, through paid stewardship focused work experiences.
Many participants indicate programs who receive this grant provide youth with access to their first paid job. Oregon Youth Corps has a goal to serve a broad geographic footprint throughout each of Oregon’s 36 counties and within each of the nine federally recognized tribal nations.
Grant Priorities:
Many participants indicate programs who receive this grant provide youth with access to their first paid job. Oregon Youth Corps has a goal to serve a broad geographic footprint throughout each of Oregon’s 36 counties and within each of the nine federally recognized tribal nations.
Grant Priorities:
- Increase access for youth to on-the-job training opportunities that provide youth technical and essential employability skills.
- Improve communities and landscapes with stewardship focused work experiences.
- Aid local economic recovery and growth for participants and communities.
Partnership Grants
Providing opportunities that advance program imperatives is an important strategy towards advancing the mission and vision of Oregon Youth Corps. Through partnerships with government agencies, and philanthropic organizations Oregon Youth Corps strives to provide additional grant funding, program services or additional grant opportunities throughout the year.
