Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund
Program
Brandeis faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars in any discipline who center community engaged pedagogies in their undergraduate or graduate courses at Brandeis are invited to apply to the COMPACT Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund. The two grants available through this fund support recipients in bringing ethical, reciprocal and sustainable community engagement into Brandeis classrooms.
Opportunities
Community Engaged Pedagogy Project Grant
This grant offers up to $3,000 in funds for community engaged research or creative projects that will be conducted in a Brandeis course. Applications for Fall 2026 classes will be due in August.
CEP Project Grant Renewal
If you are applying for a CEP Project Grant for a class/project that has received funding in previous years, please complete the COMPACT Community Engaged Pedagogy Project Renewal Application.
Community Engaged Pedagogy Mini-Grant
This grant offers up to $500 in funding to bring community partners to campus as guest speakers in a class (e.g., honoraria), to bring students off campus for a specific community engaged project or event or to conduct small-scale community engaged research or creative projects in a Brandeis course. Grant applications for AY 2025-26 are being accepted on a rolling basis, for as long as funds remain available.
Community Engaged Pedagogy Grant Recipients, 2025-26
Project Grant
Project Title: "Bringing the community into the classroom and the class into the community"
Course: Hunger in America (HSSP 110a)
Community Partner: Healthy Waltham & Brandeis Administration (Brandeis Food Pantry)
Project Grant
Project Title: "Shaping Shade: Designing Shade Structures in Waltham"
Course: Architectural Drawing and Digital Design I (FA 23B)
Community Partner: City of Waltham Planning Department & Community Day Center of Waltham
Project Grant
Project Title: "Recollections: African Immigrants Practices, Memories, and Knowledge"
Course: Refugee Stories, Refugee Lives (ENG 52A)
Community Partner: Africano Waltham
Project Grant
Project Title: "Empowering biochemistry outreach with 3D printing"
Course: Bacterial toxins: Seeing is believing (BCHM148a)
Community Partner: Waltham High School
Project Grant
Project Title: "Community Problem Solving inside BUS297: "Leadership In Social Impact Innovation""
Course: Leadership In Social Impact Innovation (BUS 297)
Community Partner: Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, Opportunites for Inclusion, Community Day Center of Waltham, The Haven Project, Weston Arts and Innovation Center, Understanding Our Differences, Social Venture Partners Boston, and Racial Justice and Technology Policy
Project Grant
Project title: "Building on the Brandeis Journalism-Brookline.News Partnership"
Course: Reinventing Journalism on the Local Level (AMST/JOUR 109b)
Community Partner: Brookline.News
Project Grant
Project Title: "The Creative Countering of Book Bans"
Course: Theory and Praxis of Community Engagement (CAST 140A)
Community Partner: Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT)
Mini Grant
Project Title: "Engaging Activists at Brandeis and Beyond"
Course: Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements (SOC 55B)
Community Partner: Various
To view past grant winners please see below:
Contact
Please send any questions about the Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund and/or the application process to compact@brandeis.edu.
We also encourage faculty to consider applying for Teaching Improvement, Experimentation, and Research (TIER) Grants and/or external funding. COMPACT staff will be glad to meet with you to discuss these opportunities.