Aiming to tap the skyrocketing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to promote social good, the Corporation for National and Community Service today announced $2.3 million in grants to use social media to engage college students in service to meet community needs…

…Administered by the Corporation’s Learn and Serve America program, the three-year grants will go to Tufts University/CIRCLE/Massachusetts Campus Compact, Youth Venture, the Phoenix Project, Middlesex County College in New Jersey, South Dakota State University, and DC Central Kitchen. Descriptions and amounts are below.