Institutional and External Support

VOICES is supported by Student Equity and Achievement funds, the Title III  “Servingness in STEM” Grant, the CRPP Innovative Best Practices Grant, and the MSEIP “VOICES in STEM” Grant. Several Faculty Fellows have also received Community Excellence Grants.

CRPP Innovative Best Practices Grant

Funding Agency: California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

Funding Opportunity: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices: Innovative Best Practices Grants

Funding Years: 2023-2025

Project Director: Dr. Jason Robinson, Director of Professional and Organizational Development

Goal: To develop DEIA-focused professional development opportunities that center community engagement, with the goal of increasing critical consciousness for faculty and students, so they are empowered and equipped to address racial inequity and racism within PCC and the local community.

Funding Agency: Department of Education

Funding Opportunity: Minority Science Engineering Improvement Program

Funding Years: 2023-2026

Project Director: Dr. Veronica Jaramillo, Dean of Natural Sciences

Project Co-Director: Dr. Jessica Blickley

Goal: To create an environmental and social-justice themed STEM transfer pathway from Pasadena City College to Cal State LA that establishes a programmatic structure for delivering experiential community-engaged learning opportunities in order to increase enrollment, persistence, completion, and transfer of minority students in STEM. 

Community Excellence Grants

  • 2022 Microplastics monitoring in the LA River Watershed: A community-based learning project in collaboration with the Council for Watershed Health 
  • 2023 Black walnut monitoring in Debs Park: A community-based learning project in collaboration with the Audubon Center 
  • 2023 Urban wildlife monitoring: A community-based learning project in collaboration with the Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy 
  • 2024 Community Changemakers Project: A community-based learning project in collaboration with Mujeres de La Tierra to recognize local women working to heal La Madre Tierra