Fellow Application

Fellow Application now open for the 2024-2025 Academic Year! The program period will take place from August 31, 2024, to May 16, 2025.

For Students

Who Can Join?

Students selected should meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Students who need some financial help for college. Must be Pell Grant/Dream Act/Middle Class Scholarship/Cal Grant B eligible.
• Students who are full-time at Sacramento State. (12 units)
• Students committed to finishing all 450 hours during the academic year.

Financial Benefits

• Living Allowance
  • $7,000
  • Distributed by partner campus to students evenly over the course of the service term
• Education Award
  • $3,000
  • Distributed to the student after 450 hours, to be used for educational expenses
• Dream Act Service Incentive Grant (DSIG)
  • Program offered by the CA Student Aid Commission for AB 540 eligeble Dreamers who are Cal Grant B recipients

Fellow Application

Fellow Application now open for the 2024-2025 Academic Year!

Academic Year 2024-25 Application

FAFSA Application

CA Dream Act Application

Cohort 3 Fellow Recruitment Timeline

• If you have not completed the background check and fingerprinting process by August 9, 2024, your conditional offer will be rescinded.
• Due to advance notice of orientation, attendance is mandatory with no exceptions.

Last Updated: 4/26/24

For Community Partner Organizations

A key element of the Sacramento State College Corps program is YOU: local community-based organizations and government agencies who are interested in hosting members throughout the academic year.

Funded by California Volunteers, Office of the Governor, the California College Corps initiative has three goals:

• engage college students in meaningful service to build leadership and civic responsibility;
• promote academic success and economic well-being with students from diverse backgrounds; and
• to support the work of community-based organizations in three priorities: K-12 education, climate action, and food insecurity.

Eligibility and Criteria

Eligible community partners for the Sac State College Corps program must be a nonprofit organization or government agency able to:

• Supervise two or more fellows providing 12-15 hours of service each week in at least one of the priority areas (K-12 education, food security, and climate action).
• Participate in required training. Each training will be approximately five hours and Will be scheduled in August 2024. All supervisors are required to attend.
• Provide data regarding community outputs and outcomes. (Required by California Volunteers)
• Comply with AmeriCorps grant requirements.

College Corps Fellows are required to complete a total of 450 hours of service during the 10-month program. Because fellows are enrolled in a course (considered indirect or training hours), we estimate that fellows will need to complete 360 hours with their community partner. This translates to 12-15 hours per week with your organization. Service with your organization can be a mix of direct and indirect service and should be predominately direct service.

Direct service refers to activities that directly benefit individuals, groups, or communities and can include tutoring, mentoring, outreach, training, food service, gardening, river or trail restoration, and more. At least 80% of the Fellows’ time must be spent on direct service. Indirect service hours, which account for 60 hours, can be utilized for education, training, research, or other activities that support the organization’s focus area.

Important Dates

• Applications open: April 2024
• Priority application deadline: May 3, 2024
• Final application deadline: May 17, 2024
• Host site orientations: August 2024
• List of Fellows for each host site: August 2024
• Host site communication with fellows: August 2024
• Host sites provide dates for fellow orientations: August 2024
• Fellows start service: September 2, 2024

Information Sessions

Our information sessions are for organizations interested in applying to be a community partner for the Sac State College Corps. Information sessions are held via Zoom. We strongly encourage prospective partners to register and attend one of the info sessions listed below.

• Session 1: Friday, April 12, 2024, | 10 - 11 a.m. | Register to Attend Session 1
• Session 2: Monday, April 15, 2024, | 12 - 1 p.m. | Register to Attend Session 2
• Session 3: Tuesday, April 30, 2024, | 3 - 4 p.m. | Register to Attend Session 3
• Session 4: Thursday, May 9 2024 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Register to Attend Session 4

If you are unable to attend one of our Host Site information sessions, we will be posting a recording to our website.

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Application and Acceptance Process

1. To apply, you need to provide information on what the Fellows will gain from their experience and describe both direct and indirect activities they will undertake.
2. The applications will be reviewed by a committee, and provisional acceptance letters will be sent out three weeks after the application deadline.
3. Upon provisional acceptance, you will be asked to provide the following:
   • Position descriptions
   • Additional requirements required by your organization (e.g., background checks, testing requirements, etc.)
   • Signed MOU
   • Site locations and supervisors
4. Once you have submitted all the necessary items, your final acceptance will be confirmed.

We aim to provide a list of Fellows to their respective community partners by August. The Fellows will begin their service on September 2, 2024.

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For Faculty and Staff

Hornet faculty, staff, and campus centers can participate in the SSCC in many ways, including:

• Promoting the program to students
• Referring to prospective community host sites
• Applying to make your campus center a host site (a limited number of Fellow positions are available)
• Partnering to deliver College Corps training, curricula, and/or service-day events

Contact

For all inquiries about SSCC at Sacramento State, please email collegecorps@csus.edu.

For inquiries about the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Program visit: https://www.californiavolunteers.ca.gov/californiansforall-college-corps.