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Seven Historically Black Colleges And Universities Selected For Community Service Grants to Eliminate Health Disparities

Seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been selected to participate in a new grant initiative to develop community service and service learning programs that address health disparities in racial and ethnic communities.

The institutions are:

  • Benedict College, Columbia SC
  • Dillard University, New Orleans LA
  • Lane College, Jackson TN
  • LeMoyne Owen College, Memphis TN
  • Rust College, Holly Springs MS
  • Wiley College, Marshall TX
  • Xavier University, New Orleans LA

The grants are funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) program "Learn and Serve America: Higher Education Program" in partnership with the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP)/Health and Community Development Division (HCDD). These grants will enable the institutions to increase the quality and quantity of community service, and service learning practices on their campuses and in surrounding communities.

The grantees are a diverse group that includes institutions that are experienced with "nationally recognized" service learning programs and institutions new to service learning with strong community health initiatives. The institutions will partner with urban, suburban, and rural communities nation wide.

The UNCFSP Learn and Serve Grant Program fosters sustainable, innovative and comprehensive service learning projects that address the health disparities identified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2010 initiative.

These areas include:

  • Breast and Cervical Cancer
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Diabetes
  • HIV-AIDS
  • Immunization, and
  • Infant Mortality.

Each institution will be awarded $90,000 over a three year period to support institutional efforts to integrate service learning programs in their curriculum and to disseminate these models within the HBCU network, other minority serving higher education institutions and health professional organizations as well as establish viable community partnerships.

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For more information on the Corporation for National and Community Service, visit www.nationalservice.org.

For more information about the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation, visit www.uncfsp.org and click on HCDD.