• At least one faculty partner from CAS must be included among the principal investigators.
• Student submissions must be sponsored by a faculty member (plus a CAS faculty member if submitting from the School of Business or Nursing).

All Linfield faculty, staff, and students may submit a proposal and may participate in more than one submission.

1. Include at least one CAS faculty member as a principal investigator (partnerships with Linfield faculty, staff, and students from all schools/colleges, and external entities are encouraged).
2. List principal investigators/proposal sponsors, include contact information.
3. Identify the specific type of grant being requested (refer to “types of grants” section).
4. Provide a realistic budget plan and proposed timeline of activities or events.
5. Describe a clear and specific plan of how a project or activity will promote liberal arts learning.
6. Lay out expected outcomes that will have a significant and meaningful impact on members of the Linfield community and/or the institution.
7. Detail a plan to seek additional funding to supplement the Lacroute Initiative’s limited funds (if this is necessary to achieve the goals of the project).

Proposals that include a plan to contribute recruitment, a capability to be institutionalized, and/or integrate with our Liberal Arts in Actions campaign may be eligible for bonus funding.

1. Incubator — provide up to $500 to support a short-term exploration of common interests. These grants might support activities like faculty/student reading or discussion groups, community conversations, curricular development, grant-writing, and other low-stakes interdisciplinary engagements.
2. Micro — provide up to $1000 (potentially renewable) to support a longer-term program or practice. These grants could support activities such as guest speakers and artists, larger reading or discussion groups, smaller conferences/symposia, grant-writing, faculty teaching observation groups, or seed money for smaller pilot projects.
3. Macro — provide up to $5000 (potentially renewable) to support a longer-term or an institutional pilot program or practice. These grants might support more ambitious projects like semester-long visiting artist or entrepreneurs, larger public conferences/symposia, more ambitious efforts at community engagement, grant-writing, faculty teaching observation groups, or seed money for larger pilot projects.
4. Visiting Artist/Entrepreneur — provide support for a short-term or longer-term campus visit by a visiting artist, scholar, or entrepreneur. These grants might support anything from a campus lecture/concert to a several-month residency on campus with workshops and courses.

• Submit an introductory description of your project or activity via the form link provided with the approval letter, prior to the release of funds.
• Share Lacroute Initiative efforts or experiences, periodically, by submitting update/summary forms, photos, videos, presentations, submissions to DigitalCommons@Linfield, or blog/vlog posts with lacrouteinitiative@Linfield.edu.
• Credit sponsorship by the Lacroute Initiative in promotional or published materials.
• Share proposal-related social media or video posts to Linfield University’s main accounts using #LacrouteLegacy.
• Promote Lacroute Initiative connections, innovations, and programming among colleagues.
• Participate in Lacroute Initiative promotional campaigns.
• Submit a project summary via the form link provided with the approval letter including an assessment of Lacroute Initiative-related activities, student impact, and outcomes meeting the Lacroute Initiative mission.

Project introductions/updates/summaries do not have to be written, we welcome video and audio submissions.