Thanks to an outstanding investment by philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott, the 社区 Excellent Grant Program at 太阳城集团官方网址导航 helps elevate exceptional ideas that advance PCC’s mission, vision, and values.

PCC has established a reputation as an innovator and creative space for educating 学生. Our faculty, staff, and 学生 uncover new ideas and best practices, and we make a practice of disseminating these to our colleagues and peer institutions. This grant program supercharges these innate qualities of our culture, providing seed funding and experimentation space to nurture, test, and scale up new projects and 教育方法.

This grant program aims to find the best and most impactful ideas within our diverse community and give them resources and energy to take root and grow. 项目资助 with a 社区 Excellence Grant will be:

  • In service to PCC’s 学生, faculty, and staff;
  • Avenues for deepened connections between the college and communities across our district;
  • Spaces for intentional enhancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion;
  • Seen as signature demonstrations of PCC’s approach to education, pedagogy, and/or community college administration;
  • Expected to demonstrate results within one year of grant award;
  • Designed to maximize the impact of a one-time grant 通过这个项目;
  • Operated in accordance with PCC’s board policies and administrative procedures.

The 社区 Excellence Fund provides approximately $1 million in funding for this 每年的项目. Grants are made annually with a maximum of two years to successfully 完成项目.  A final report/presentation will be required upon completion.

24人的受助人.26 Cycle have been announced and notified.  一个时间表 2025-2027 Cycle will be available in early September 2026.  所有补助金来自22个.24 cycle are now closed unless a modification was approved.  


社区 Excellence Grant FAQ's

This grant program aims to find the best and most impactful ideas within our diverse community and give them resources and energy to take root and grow. 项目资助 with a 社区 Excellence Grant will be:

  • In service to PCC’s 学生, faculty, and staff;
  • Avenues for deepened connections between the college and communities across our district;
  • Spaces for intentional enhancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion;
  • Seen as signature demonstrations of PCC’s approach to education, pedagogy, and/or community college administration;
  • Expected to demonstrate results within one year of grant award;
  • Designed to maximize the impact of a one-time grant 通过这个项目;
  • Operated in accordance with PCC’s board policies and administrative procedures.

There may be up to $1 million allocated annually to outstanding new programs and initiatives 通过这个项目.  

认为大!  We are looking to fund creative and exciting new initiatives.  有 been no cap determined as of yet.

25人的时间线.27 Cycle will be announced sometime in September 2024.

We fund programs for a two-year grant period.  Projects funded on July 1st, 2023 must be completed by June 30, 2025.  Projects funded on July 1st, 2024 must be completed 到2026年6月30日. 
  • We are not funding upgrades to an individual’s equipment, funding individual travel, or granting individual stipends.
  • The grant program was not designed to supplant funding, but rather enhance it.
  • We will not fund anything which violates or is in conflict with district policies.
  • Original, innovative, exciting, different, unique….as it pertains to student success!
  • 细节,细节,细节!  
  • 切合实际的开支计划
  • 认为战略!  
  • 什么 CAN you do if awarded this funding as opposed to what you won’t be able to do if you don’t have the funding
  • If you are not fully funded, what is your Plan “B”?
Grant Application Questions for the next cycle (2025.2027) are being updated by the CEG Committee and will be shared sometime in October of 2024.

是的!  You can upload up to two files (PDF's, Word Docs, Excel Docs) and two images.

联系克里斯·麦克皮克,地址是 kmmcpeak@hzruiqi.net to request a Grant Modification Request Form.  Completed requests are forwarded to the selection committee for review.  Submitting a request does not guarantee either an extension or additional funding, but the committee did identify a need to provide 此选项适用于受资助者.

 The PCC的基础 uses Blackbaud Award Management for the application and review 拨款申请.  A link will be shared closer to the opening of the application 过程.

 是的.   There's an entire playlist of Grant Workshops on our YouTube Channel - which 你可以找到 在这里.  We will update this page as new workshops are added.  

Please reach out to Kris McPeak at kmmcpeak@hzruiqi.net or you can call her at x7078.