The three-year Supporting Actions for Engagment (SAFE) grant, funded by the Community College National Center for Community Engagement through the Corporation for National and Community Service, began in January, 2004. The focus of the grant was on disaster and emergency preparedness through service learning. The institutions that participated were at different levels with regards to service learning on their campuses - some had long-running programs, others had established service learning on their campuses only a few years earlier, and others were using the SAFE grant as a first step in establishing service learning at their institutions. In addition, two tribal colleges were funded in the last year of the grant. After the SAFE grant ended in the fall of 2006, five of the original SAFE campuses were offered a one-year extension grant for continued SAFE projects.

This final collection of articles by the SAFE subgrantees serves to coalesce the reflections on and examples of these five campuses' SAFE initiatives; how they got started; some of the lessons learned along the way; some of their best examples of projects and activities that students developed and implemented in their communities; and how they have raised the level of awareness at their institutions about service learning and civic engagement.

Previous collections of articles written by the SAFE sub-grantees can be found on CCNCCE's home page. Click on the "Home" button above, then go to the "Resources" drop-down menu and select "Publications" for other SAFE articles and resources and other resources published by CCNCCE.