Carolina Center for Public Service

The Carolina Center for Public Service provides students, faculty and staff with transformative experiences. Your support creates collaborative and interdisciplinary solutions to local and global challenges.

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Your support of the Carolina Center for Public Service matters.

CCPS offers a variety of programs that support service and engagement — providing students, faculty and staff many ways to explore service opportunities, learn new skills and link their academic endeavors to making a difference in communities across North Carolina. Help support the scholarships and programs that strengthen Carolina’s impact in the community.

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Increase capacity for campuswide engagement activities

Increase capacity for the Center to continue and expand ongoing campuswide engagement activities, including the Chancellor’s Bus Tour, Public Service Awards, Carolina Engagement Week and disaster relief.

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Develop and expand experiential education

Help develop and expand experiential education and service-learning courses based on existing models, including funding graduate level courses in partnership with schools across campus.

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Expand Community Service Scholars program

Help students, faculty and staff acquire new skills and connect their academic pursuits with community impact in North Carolina.

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Support faculty teaching and research

Expand faculty teaching and research to include course development and engaged scholarship grants.

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Service through technology

At Carolina, Zareen Farooqui studies business and computer science. Through the Carolina Center for Public Service’s APPLES Service-Learning program, she spent her summer using knowledge from classes to revamp United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Teaming for Technology Program, refurbishing used computer equipment and making it available to underserved communities.

Read Zareen Farooqui's Story

Support the Carolina Center for Public Service

For more than 25 years, the Carolina Center for Public Service has shaped and sustained Carolina’s mission by advancing engaged scholarship and service to address concerns across North Carolina and beyond.

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Community Service Scholarship Program Expendable Fund

Provides support for tuition assistance and programming to select, service-oriented undergraduates to advance their commitment, knowledge and skills related to service. Community Service Scholars receive training, mentorship and individualized support of specific public service interests.

Disaster Relief Fund

Provides support for CCPS to support the University’s response and relief efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters. CCPS serves as a hub for information, service opportunities and project fundings. Donations to the Disaster Relief Fund cannot be transferred to individuals or organizations; rather, the funds allow Carolina to engage with and fully support affected communities in the near and long term.

APPLES Service-Learning Seed Fund

Provides support for APPLES Service-Learning, which is celebrating a legacy of 35 years as a student-led program that connects academic learning and public service. APPLES engages students, faculty and community in sustained and mutually beneficial partnerships for transformational educational experiences for students and for positive outcomes in communities.

Faculty Engaged Scholars Program

Provides support for advancing engaged scholarship for Carolina faculty. Selected scholars participate in a two-year curriculum, develop projects and create a learning community yielding new interdisciplinary collaborations, successful grant applications and unique outcomes of scholarship.