The Bonner Foundation invites Bonner Program and campus community engagement staff and students to join the Streamlining Operations Project. We provide one-on-one training and a mini-grant for student stipends and subscription fees.

Background

Staff and students who lead campus-wide community engagement centers and their Bonner Programs are being challenged to manage more student, faculty, and community partnerships every year. But you aren’t getting more staff to keep pace. The best solution: streamlining your operations.

Many campuses have a summer intern position or two for students who can help staff prepare the next school year. This planning usually includes planning orientations and weekly meetings for your Bonner Program, meeting with community partners to reflect on the school year just past and prepare engagement opportunities for one coming up, summer and fall outreach and support for faculty teaching community-engaged learning courses, and creating the forms and other systems for Bonner applications, feedback from various constituencies, and other program operations.

We want to offer support for you to streamline all these operations using the Notion platform which the Bonner Foundation has been using since 2020 to manage our work. We have developed a template and a series of workflows for campus centers to use in managing a comprehensive range of core operational activities.

Please let me know if you have any questions by emailing Bobby Hackett at [email protected] or set up a Zoom call using this link — https://calendly.com/rkhackett/30min

Goals

We have several goals for assisting schools with this project:

1. Implement the Campus Center HQ in Notion as a platform for internal project and information management for your Bonner Program and campus-wide center.
2. Publish external webpages with profiles of community-engaged courses, student projects, and other activities supported by your center.
3. Creating a national Bonner Learning Community of staff and students who explore and share ways they are streamlining their operations through the use of technology and more efficient and effective processes.

Funding

The Bonner Foundation will provide small grants of up to $5,000 for each campus that needs funding for:

• stipends for summer intern(s) who will work on this project for at least seven weeks this summer alongside a staff member in your center or office;
• subscriptions to Notion and related platforms used to automate.

Expectations

We will ask the student-staff team from each campus to commit to the following:

1. Attend a series of Zoom training and networking calls we will organize for this project.
2. Sharing your progress through one-on-one discussions with Foundation staff.
3. Share your Notion setup with others in this group as you develop additional features so that they might duplicate your best practices.

Related Links

View our **Campus Center HQ** tmmplate in Notion. This is undergoing a major update which will be ready for the start of this summer project.

Product page for Notion and the Notion for Educators page.

Application Form

There is no deadline for this project; we will begin once you are ready.