Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good

Global Citizens Grant

Info Session:
106 Banister Hall
Monday, December 7
7:30 p.m.
Would you like to spend a summer learning about an issue you’re passionate about while doing international service work in the developing world? Come hear Global Citizens Grant recipients Sarah Glaser '11 and Sean Morris ’10, as they share their experiences working with grassroots organizations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. For more information, contact Janice Jaffe.

Download the 2010 Global Citizens Grant application.

The Global Citizens Grant provides students with the opportunity to pursue summer volunteer and public service projects outside of the United States.  The intent of the program is to support student projects that are independently designed and focus on providing direct service by working in local communities.  By enabling students to immerse themselves in foreign cultures, the Global Citizens Grant aims to encourage a broadening of perspective among volunteers, the foreign communities in which they will work, and the Bowdoin community to which they will return.

Read about the 2008 Global Citizens Grant recipients
Read about the 2009 Global Citizens Grant recipients

Grants of up to $2500 will cover the cost of travel and living expenses for four to ten weeks.  Applicants may affiliate themselves with an existing organization in-country, but grants will not pay the costs of joining one of the many varieties of international "service trips" or "service tours" available for purchase.  Students on financial aid as determined by the Office of Financial Aid may apply for an additional earnings replacement stipend of $350/week for up to four weeks.

As part of the grant, participants are required to:

• Participate in an orientation to the program;
• Convene with other grant recipients and staff upon return to campus for discussion, reflection and to identify common themes which could be addressed through campus-wide educational programming;
• Present a summary of the experience to students, faculty and staff in a public venue organized by the McKeen Center for the Common Good;
• Participate in an evaluation of the program at the end of the summer to help craft future program components.