**Note: In light of the recent economic downturn, it is with regret that we must hold on funding any new grants for 2009. We are comitted to stewardship of our funding for initiative grants and must wait to offer additional ones until after the market provides greater returns to the endowment for these grants. Thank you for your interest and we will announce when this program is open to receive new proposals. (11/24/08)**
Two three-year
Initiative Grants of $18,000 each will be awarded annually to
implement research projects. The terms for these grants are as follows.
The purpose of the program is to enable small groups of Christian scholars to network in ways that will lead to collaborative scholarship on themes of interest to the larger academy. These programs seek to connect Christian scholars serving at CCCU member institutions to a broader network of Christian scholars in ways that will advance distinctively Christian scholarship. Approved projects will create networks with promise for disseminating their scholarly results in high quality academic venues, thereby introducing Christian voices into contemporary academic conversations beyond the Christian academy.
Although all scholarship that seeks to illuminate some aspect of God's creation may be viewed as Christian scholarship, broadly conceived, preference will be given in this program to supporting research for which the substance of the scholarship is significantly informed by a Christian faith perspective. Any topic is appropriate if there is potential for Christian perspectives on the topic to make an important contribution beyond the Christian academy and other Christian audiences (see "Examples of Past Initiative Grants"). Therefore, proposed projects for which dissemination is targeted primarily to Christian audiences, such as the production of textual materials for CCCU institutions or churches, are not eligible for awards.
This endowed program is established by Walter Hansen in memory of his parents, Ken and Jean Hansen, with appreciation for their modeling the integration of faith with learning and living in the ServiceMaster Company and at Wheaton College.
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Examples of Past Initiative Grants