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UT-REACH for May 10, 2013 UT-REACH is published by the Office of Community Engagement & Outreach **** "We need to argue to policy makers that poverty is still a major global issue and that higher education must play its critical role with the strong support of the government. We must continue and expand upon our work to educate people, build and strengthen institutions, and generate new technology." - Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. May 7, 2013 (Chronicle of Higher Education) **** IN THE NEWS: 1. Chronicle Op-Ed: U.S. Universities Critical for Work in Developing Countries 2. Leveraging Community-Campus Partnerships to Build Community Wealth 3. Nominate Your Community Partner For $100,000 Award CALLS FOR PROPOSALS: 4. Call for posters: Read.Write. Act. Virtual Conference 2013 5. Call for Proposals: Moving Us Forward, Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness 6. Call for abstracts: 4th Annual Summer Research Institute on the Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education FUNDING: 7. Knight Foundation Invites Applications for Knight Community Information Challenge 8. Spencer Foundation: How K-8 Student Performance Data Informs Instruction 9. Foundation Partnership: Strengthening Innovation & Practice in Secondary Education Open Society Foundations: Social Justice Photography Projects 10. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Concept Papers for Research to Prevent Childhood Obesity NEW RESOURCES & READING: 11. Highlights from the 2nd National Community Partner Forum (Dec 2012 in Washington DC) 12. Now Online: Anchor Institutions Toolkit 13. Ethics in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Webpages 14. New online: Interactive Focus Group Tools 15. Online Resource: Building a Better World Forum for Global Service-Learning 16. Free online Service-Learning module: Moving from Charity to Partnership **** IN THE NEWS: 1. Chronicle Op-Ed: U.S. Universities Critical for Work in Developing Countries (Chronicle of Higher Education) Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities' President Peter McPherson addresses the critical need for an ongoing partnership between the U.S. government and U.S. higher education in continuing to support the agriculture, health, and economic prosperity of developing countries. More: http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/u-s-universities-are-critical-for-work-in-developing-countries/32283 2. Leveraging Community-Campus Partnerships to Build Community Wealth On May 8th, MIT CoLab hosted a panel discussion this week based on case study from Cleveland, Ohio: a pathbreaking strategy in Cleveland, Ohio, that addressed issues of generating local wealth, economic opportunity, and jobs. The strategy was designed and implemented by the nonprofit University Hospitals (UH) in close partnership with the Office of the Mayor and local building trade unions. Click through to learn more & watch webcast of the event. More: http://webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu/f/2012-2013/dusp/08feb2013/ 3. Nominate Your Community Partner For $100,000 Award The Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation is given each fall to a nonprofit organization that best demonstrates Drucker¢s definition of innovation: "change that creates a new dimension of performance." The award has been given annually since 1991 and is accompanied by a first-place prize of $100,000. The program is generously supported by The Coca-Cola Foundation. Deadline: July 1, 2013 Details: http://www.druckerinstitute.com/what-we-do/nonprofit-innovation-award/ CALLS FOR PROPOSALS: 4. Call for posters: Read.Write. Act. Virtual Conference 2013 (Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education<http://readwriteact.org/>) Students, community programs, and/or other literacy advocates are invited to participate in this year's Read.Write.Act conference by creating presentations or posters that present their original research in the field of literacy, or which describe a literacy, tutoring, or social justice program. The Conference, is now in its 21st year, originally the conference took place in Chapel Hill, NC. Six years ago, it become a virtual conference to be able to better include literacy advocates across the country and the globe. Poster Proposal Deadline: May 31st, 2013. (Posters due in October) Details: http://readwriteact.org/events/read-write-act-conference/ 5. Call for Proposals: Moving Us Forward, Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness (Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference) Conference goals: (1) Support institutions to stay out in front of emerging trends in higher education, with emphasis on the Carnegie classification for community engagement; (2) Work with leaders to advance structural and cultural strategies for rewarding engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure; (3) Explore the challenges associated with assessing campus-wide engagement and articulate strategies for shared success. Oct. 23-25, 2013 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Proposal Deadline: May 28, 2013 Details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FJO3UJa-8Rfp72Ek3VUxmgMDif0VPFMHkDjQWXwkNsw/viewform?pli=1 6. Call for abstracts: 4th Annual Summer Research Institute on the Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education The 4th annual summer research institute on *The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education* brings together scholars, students, and community participants to engage the theory and practice of what it means to have an "academic home" for community engagement in higher education. It will take place July 17 & 18, 2013, at Tufts University in conjunction with the Frontiers of Democracy<http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/circle/summer-institute/frontiers-of-democracy-innovations-in-civic-practice-theory-and-education/> conference. Attendees are invited to take advantage of the affiliate conferences, co-sponsored by Merrimack College's Center for Engaged Democracy; Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, the Democracy Imperative, and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium. Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013 Details: http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/education/center_for_engaged_democracy/future_of_community_engagement_in_higher_education/index.php FUNDING: 7. Knight Foundation Invites Applications for Knight Community Information Challenge In 2013, the challenge will provide up to $50,000 in seed funding to community and place-based foundations (though open government projects may be considered for larger grants). While the challenge is an open call for all kinds of projects, preference will be given to Open Government efforts (= projects that improve the way that people and governments interact). Deadline: June 1, 2013 Details: http://www.knightfoundation.org/kcic/ 8. Spencer Foundation: How K-8 Student Performance Data Informs Instruction Grants ranging from $50,000 to $300,000 to cover direct and limited indirect costs for up to three years of work. In exceptional circumstances Foundation will consider studies with larger budgets. Deadline: June 11, 2013 (Preliminary proposals) Details: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/data-use-and-educational-improvement 9. Foundation Partnership: Strengthening Innovation & Practice in Secondary Education Building on Millenium Development Goals and Education for All initiatives, a consortium of foundations is accepting LOIs for secondary education projects that aim to increase the demand for secondary learning, improve teacher effectiveness, and/or promote employment-relevant skills for teachers in developing countries. Deadline: May 15, 2013 (Letters of Inquiry; Full Proposals Due August 2, 2013) Details: http://www.macfound.org/media/files/PSIPSE_RFP_FINAL_April_1.pdf 10. Open Society Foundations: Social Justice Photography Projects Five to eight grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. Grant funds cannot be used to shoot new imagery, but should take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative and effective way of using that work as a tool for social change. Seeking projects that serve as interventions on pressing problems and provide concrete ways for photographers, organizations, and their target audiences to create a positive impact. Deadline: June 18, 2013 Details: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/audience-engagement-grant 11. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Concept Papers for Research to Prevent Childhood Obesity Through its Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity program, the foundation will provide two types of awards aimed at providing advocates, decision-makers, and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Approximately $1.6 million will be awarded in total. Deadline for receipt of concept paper (for Award beginning Feb 1, 2014): July 10, 2013, 3 p.m. ET Deadlines for receipt of invited full proposal: September 11, 2013, 3 p.m. ET Details: http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/healthy-eating-research--building-evidence-to-prevent-childhood-.html NEW RESOURCES & READING: 12. Highlights from the 2nd National Community Partner Forum (Dec 2012 in Washington DC) Co-Sponsored by Community-Camus Partnerships for Health & the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service with funding from NIMHD. Research funding agencies support academic institutions' engaging community partners. However, as more community organizations enter into research partnerships with institutions, it is clear they need resources and supportive networks as well... Read more. More: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/NCPF2-BriefReportFinal.pdf 13. Now Online: Anchor Institutions Toolkit From University of Pennsylvania's Netter Center. Each of the tools in this kit was developed and implemented with local community stakeholders, including neighborhood associations, city officials and city agencies, local businesses, nonprofits and higher education institutions as appropriate. More: https://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/anchortoolkit/ 14. Ethics in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Webpages (Hat-tip Engagement Scholarship Consortium<http://engagementscholarship.org/>) Who owns this information? Are we being fair? Is this an equal partnership? UK's National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) has created a webpage dedicated to ethics in CBPR, based on the work carried out by the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at Durham University. An ethical guide, case examples, short films, podcasts, and resources on this page help researchers with ethical challenges. More: http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about/ethics?goback=.gmr_4108101.gde_4108101_member_232389118 15. New online: Interactive Focus Group Tools CES4Health has now published this set of three tools aimed at collecting input from community members participating in a health-focused community based participatory research project. Two were inspired by The Evaluator's Cookbook1; permission was received by the publisher to share these tools in this publication. The third activity is an original creation. It was developed after implementing the first two activities in a cross cultural context and was initially used with First Nations children. More: http://www.ces4health.info/find-products/view-product.aspx?code=W64JY7FS 16. Online Resource: Building a Better World Forum for Global Service-Learning This website grew out of the recognition of the availability of rigorous, open-source scholarship at the nexus of the fields of international education, service-learning, and university-community engagement - coupled with the frequent lack of integration of these disparate areas of research literature. Site editors are actively soliciting feedback regarding what you would like to see more of on the site, proposals you have for blog posts, or ways in which you find the site useful. This feedback will help justify an entirely volunteer effort while providing direction for future site development. More: http://criticalservicelearning.org/ 17. Free online Service-Learning module: Moving from Charity to Partnership Serve Smart is offering one of its online student modules for free in hopes users will provide feedback and consider purchasing more modules as they are developed. More: https://www.udemy.com/serve-smart/?couponCode=Community+Based+Organization+Service-Learning+List QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT FUNDING, SUBMISSION CALLS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE: May 2013: · Foundation Partnership: Strengthening Innovation & Practice in Secondary Education. Deadline: May 15, 2013 (Letters of Inquiry; Full Proposals Due August 2, 2013).<http://www.macfound.org/media/files/PSIPSE_RFP_FINAL_April_1.pdf> · Call for Proposals: Moving Us Forward, Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness. (Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference) Proposal Deadline: May 28, 2013.<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FJO3UJa-8Rfp72Ek3VUxmgMDif0VPFMHkDjQWXwkNsw/viewform?pli=1> · Call for Papers: Inequalities in Health Issue of Int'l Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health . Deadline May 31, 2013.<http://www.mdpi.com/si/ijerph/Inequalities> · Call for posters: Read.Write. Act. Virtual Conference 2013. Poster Proposal Deadline: May 31st, 2013. (Posters due in October).<http://readwriteact.org/events/read-write-act-conference/> June 2013: · Call for abstracts: 4th Annual Summer Research Institute on the Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education. Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013<http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/education/center_for_engaged_democracy/future_of_community_engagement_in_higher_education/index.php> · Knight Foundation Invites Applications for Knight Community Information Challenge. Deadline: June 1, 2013.<http://www.knightfoundation.org/kcic/> · Spencer Foundation: How K-8 Student Performance Data Informs Instruction. Deadline: June 11, 2013 (Preliminary proposals).<http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/data-use-and-educational-improvement> · EPICS conference: Integrating Design and Service-Learning within the Curriculum. Conference Dates: June 12-14, 2013.<https://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/*%09https:/engineering.purdue.edu/EPICSU/About/News/2013-workshop-information> · RGK Foundation: Education, Community, and Health/Medicine Grants. 2013 Review Deadlines: March 1, June 14, & September 20.<http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/guidelines> · Open Society Foundations: Social Justice Photography Projects. Deadline: June 18, 2013.<http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/audience-engagement-grant> · Open Society Foundations : Human Rights Photography Audience Engagement Grants. Deadline: June 18, 2013.<http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/audience-engagement-grant> July 2013: · Nominate Your Community Partner For $100,000 Award. Deadline: July 1, 2013.<http://www.druckerinstitute.com/what-we-do/nonprofit-innovation-award/> · Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Concept Papers for Research to Prevent Childhood Obesity. Deadline for receipt of concept paper: July 10, 2013, 3 p.m. ET.<http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/healthy-eating-research--building-evidence-to-prevent-childhood-.html> · William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students. Deadline: July 15, 2013 (for Fall 2013)<http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/nonprofit-philanthropy/leadership-initiatives/hearst> · Call for Proposals: NSF Developmental and Learning Sciences. Deadline July 15, 2013.<http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671> · US Dept Commerce: Strong Cities, Strong Communities Visioning Challenge. Deadline: July 23, 2013.<http://search.proquest.com/fundingops/docview/1020905405/139732A30955B264E0C/30?accountid=14766> · NSF CAREER Grant. Deadline July 24, 2013.<http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=76693> September 2013: · RGK Foundation: Education, Community, and Health/Medicine Grants. 2013 Review Deadlines: March 1, June 14, & September 20.<http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/guidelines> Ongoing: · Call for papers: International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. Ongoing<http://www.columbiasc.edu/SeviceLearningLeadershipSocialChange/> · Call for papers: eJournal of Public Affairs on Public Scholarship. Ongoing<http://ejournal.missouristate.edu/> · Call for papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Ongoing and special issues.<http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/pages/view/submissions> · Call for papers: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/ijsle/index> · Call for submissions: Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice<http://www.gjcpp.org/submissions.php> · Bank of America (Funding): Arts and Sports Sponsorships to Maintain Vibrant, Healthy Communities.<http://about.bankofamerica.com/en-us/global-impact/find-grants-sponsorships.html#fbid=qx1iXMk-Ory> · *New Journal* Public - A Journal of Imagining America (to begin accepting proposals early 2013)<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/http:/public.imaginingamerica.org/?page_id=41> · Self-Directed External Funding For Outreach and Engagement (note: site can only be accessed from computers on the UT Knoxville campus network.)<http://research.utk.edu/funding/external.shtml> · UT's Ready for the World Funding. 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