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[cid:[log in to unmask]] Seven campus proposals from six UT Knoxville colleges have been selected for 2013-14 Outreach and Incentive Grants. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville provides special project funding for community-campus partnerships that specifically enhance the engagement mission of the university. This funding is allocated through a competitive annual grant process early in the fall semester. Selected for the 2013-14 award: * Tennessee Sustainability Coordination Planning and Engagement (T-SCaPE), led by Brad Collett, Gail Fulton, and Valerie Friedmann in landscape architecture that will bring together planners, designers and policymakers to achieve greater statewide coordination of sustainability planning. * A Smart Start for Knox County's Babies, led by Terri Combs-Orme, with Terri Geiser and Courtney Morefield in social work, that will cooperate with the Knox County Health Department to provide low-income mothers a class on early brain development in young children. * Partnership for the Academic Study of Early Judaism, led by Erin Darby, with Gilya Schmidt, Ralphe Panitz, Deborah Oleshansky, and Jeff Gubitz, that will establish a collaboration among the UT department of religious studies, the Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies, UT Hillel, and the Knoxville Jewish Alliance, involving a community education program on ancient Judaism. * Crossing the Bridge to Academic Discourse, led by Susan Groenke, with Kirsten Benson and Shannon Jackson (Knox County Schools), that encourages collaborations among UTK composition instructors with 12th-grad English teachers in Knox County Schools. * Immigrant Legal Literacy Project, led by Karla McKanders and Carlos Pinilla (Centro Hispano), that partners the Community Center Centro Hispano with the Immigration Clinic at the UT College of Law to provide legal consultations and understand the legal needs of the area's immigrants. * UTK Engagement with Real Nonprofits, led by Alex Miller, that will work with the United Way and the Trinity Foundation to develop a resource/support center for nonprofits. * Partners Through Playgrounds, led by Mary Jane Moran, with Dawn Coe, Robyn Brookshire, Joyce Farmer, and Renee Hauge, that partners UT faculty with local Head Start program staff to install natural playscape elements in urban playgrounds. Read Project Abstracts Here: http://service.utk.edu/funding/examples/2013-14-outreach-incentive-grant-winners/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the CAMPCOMM archives or Join/Leave the list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/campcomm.html