The Cornell University Public Service Center is seeking applications for its Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program for the second year.

The Civic Leaders Program , which aids community-building projects and the people who carry them out, seeks to:

• Support leaders who possess the knowledge, skills, competencies, values, morals and wisdom to provide stewardship to critical institutional and community problem-solving efforts.
• Foster university and community practices that encourage greater commitment to community building, grassroots organizing and social responsibility.
• Strengthen and build regional university-community collaborative relationships (project impact can be local, national or international).

Application requirements are as follows:

• A long-standing history of community involvement.
• Submission of a proposal that addresses a community need or problem, which the fellow would research during the fellowship.
• Residence within an approximate 100-mile radius of Cornell.
• A personal statement explaining how this experience will affect the individual and the organization.

Recipients may use the $5,000 fellowship award to support travel, housing, sabbatical leave expenses, community project expenses or sponsoring agency support. In addition, the fellowship will provide each fellow with a variety of university support systems and access to other resources to enable fellows to attain their projects' goals. Applicants do not need to be affiliated with Cornell to apply.

A committee of faculty, university administrators and community leaders will select fellows. Fellowship applications for the 2002-03 academic year are due July 1, 2002.

Contact the Public Service Center at (607) 255-1148 or cupsc@cornell.edu for further information or to receive an application. The application also is available online at the Public Service Center's web site at .