Project Partners

FIPSE - The primary partner and funder of the project is the United States Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of  Postsecondary Education.

S-CAR Undergraduate Program- We also partner with the Undergraduate Program of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution to implement the project's initiatives and activities. 

LIBERIA

Don Bosco Rehabilitation and Skills Training Programme 

Founded in 1991 through a joint initiative of UNICEF and the Salesians of Don Bosco the DBRSTP aims at reaching disadvantaged youth in Liberia aged between late teens and 26 with rehabilitative skills training and counselling.  S-CAR's students, through the Service Learning Intensives, have the opportunity to work with this organization assisting youth in Liberia's post-conflict society.

 COLOMBIA

Javeriana Pontifical University

The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is a private higher education institution founded in 1623. It is one of the older and most traditional Colombian universities, directed by the Society of Jesus, with its main facilities in Bogotá and a sectional division in Cali. The Javeriana University in the near future will mainly promote research and curricula-centered integral education; it will strengthen its interdisciplinary university nature, and it will reinforce its presence in the country contributing to the solution of its major problems.

WEST VIRGINIA

Partnership of African American Churches

The Partnership of African American Churches (PAAC) is a collaborative, non-profit, faith based community development corporation, based in Charleston, WV. While PAAC serves all communities, it intentionally targets African American communities in West Virginia. The PAAC is a specific initiative driven organization focusing on community and individual well-being which involves both policy change and programmatic implementation.

PAAC has recognized the need and is presently advancing as an intermediary resource agent to assist community grassroots projects in capacity building and securing support for various programmatic activities. This support is currently being provided to 4 Communities in 3 Counties and will ultimately expand to 13 counties within West Virginia.

(information detailed above is copied from the respective organizations' websites)