Program Sponsorship and Mini-Grant Goals and Guidelines

1. Understand Program Goals
2. Complete online application
3. Proposal reviewed by committee within one month; notification given within six weeks
4. Work with Companions on a Journey director to revise and refine original proposal (if requested)
5. Submit revised Mini-Grant application (if needed)
6. Complete or implement project
7. Submit final project budget and financial documentation
8. Submit evaluations

Companion/Corad Goals

Our Mini-Grants Program is one of the development opportunities for faculty, support staff, and administrators, related to the CSB Theological Exploration of Vocation programming.  The goals for this program are to:

• Strengthen and enhance vocational awareness among the students and alumnae of the College of Saint Benedict through the process of companioning.  Through companioning relationships, participants will be invited to:
  • listen for God's calling in the concrete experiences of their everyday lives
  • explore the various ways in which women can serve as leaders and ministers in church and society
  • provide mutual support to one another in responding to God's calling
  • encourage ongoing refelction on vocation and the practice of faith
• Infuse the notion of vocation and heighten the visibility and value of its meaning within the academic and co-curricular activities of the College of Saint Benedict
  • incorporate vocational reflection into existing coursework and programming
  • introduce new venues designed to foster vocational reflection
• Stengthen and enhance vocational awareness among the faculty, staff, and administrators of the College of Saint Benedict through development opportunities that:
  • invite them to reflect on their lives from a vocational perspective in order to be better prepared to help students through the same process
  • support their efforts to incorporate knowledge of vocation into their work with students

Some project examples include:

• Faculty Ideas 
• Support Staff and Administrators Ideas
• Student Ideas

Grant Awards

Grant awards will not exceed $2,000. Typically, $750 will be awarded for course or program modification; $1500 will be awarded for new course or program development; awards for co-curricular programming will vary.

Proposals submitted by the first of the month will be reviewed that month by a committee. Notification will be given within six weeks of proposal submission.

Using Funds

When approved for funds, you will be responsible for:

• Completing and filing paperwork related to expenditures and turning it into the Companions on a Journey office for dubgeting approval, e.g. W-9 forms, stipend forms, check requests, receipts, etc.
• Keeping track of expenditures - can be done by you (and turned in) or monitored through the office via regular communication between you and the Companions on a Journey staff on Excel documentation.

Follow Up

Copies of evaluation measures, tools, and results must be turned into our office upon completion of project/event.  Or if the project is an ongoing program then periodic evaluations are submitted.

Questions?

Contact our office (journey@csbsju.edu, ext 5939) or our interim director, S Mary Reuter, O.S.B., Ph.D(mreuter@csbsju.edu, ext 5126).