This article demonstrates how unknowing and/or unintentional commitments to neoliberal ideology adversely impact the advancement of the civic engagement movement. After considering the relevant literature on this topic, I outline how the grant-seeking process can be understood as one organizing technique that affirms structures produced by neoliberal ideology. The final section of the article encourages civic education scholars and practitioners to be more conscious of how ideology not only limits our movement's ability to achieve democratic and justice aims but also impacts other dimensions of civic engagement in higher education. (Contains 6 notes.)