My Cultures of Professional Writing class will spend part of their semester visiting, interviewing, and writing grant applications for community non-profit organizations. And thanks to an Ohio Campus Compact Pay It Forward grant, they will then award $2000 to up to four of those non-profits. The Pay It Forward program engages students in hands-on philanthropy, grant-making, and community service. For the Cultures class, the grant provides them the opportunity to do real-world writing that awards significant funds to some of the many organizations in our county doing excellent work.
Cultures is the penultimate class in the sequence toward a minor in Professional Writing, open to students in any major who want to add skills in real-world writing and design for both print and web to their existing major.