LISTSERV 16.5 - CAMPCOMM Archives

Students from forty-one states and sixteen countries came together last week on the UT campus for the Destination Imagination Global Finals. Destination Imagination is a nonprofit organization that helps to enrich the global community through learning opportunities. The competition welcomes kindergarten through university-level students who engage in problem-solving challenges utilizing science, technology, math, theater arts, writing, project management, communication, teamwork, and community service.

More: http://tntoday.utk.edu/2014/05/15/destination-imagination-brings-celebrities-students-campus/

2. College Business Partners with Local Businesses for High School Summer Program

Thirty-five high school students from the Southeast will participate in the Business Education for Talented Students (BETS) summer camp, which begins Thursday, June 5th on the UT campus. The program, which runs through June 14th, will teach students office etiquette, personal finance, and potential career paths in the business world. Students will have the opportunity to interact with UT faculty members and business experts while also learning about the various majors offered in UT’s College of Business Administration.

More: http://utcbanews.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/high-school-students-to-explore-business-world-through-ut-summer-program-2/

3. Modeling Hope for Knoxville: KARM Embraces Two-Way Engagement

Like UT, Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM) has been changing their one-way charity model to a more sustainable two-way one. “’No one is so poor that they don’t have something to give,’” says director Burt Rosen, quoting Bob Lupton’s book, “Toxic Charity.” “Part of what Bob was talking about flies in the face of what rescue missions have traditionally done. When a person is in crisis, we are not expecting them to contribute something back,” Rosen stresses, “But if you desire to go a little further, instead of being a consumer of the service, there are opportunities here. What goes away is one-way giving. Everyone is capable of giving back.” This week, a News-Sentinel article highlighted KARM’s reciprocal approach, shedding new light on best practices for charitable work in our community.

More: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2014/may/24/hope-for-our-city-knox-area-rescue-ministries-to/?print=1

4. Video: A Farewell to Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, the memoirist, poet and author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” died Wednesday. Her manuscripts are being preserved at the Harlem-based branch of the New York Public Library.

View: http://nyti.ms/1mtreZh

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

5. APLU Social Capital Webinar Series

The Association of Public Land Grant University’s Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity (APLU-CICEP) hosts a series of lively conversations focusing on creating trust and building social capital. Upcoming webinar topics include: Convening the Conveners: Working with Economic Development Organizations; Civic and Social Engagement: Why Community Development Partnerships Matter; and Evolution of a New Paradigm: Emerging Tech Transfer Partnership Models. Webinars are free and open to anyone. Recordings of previous webinars are also available. (H/T Engagement Scholarship Consortium)

Webinar Dates and More Information: http://www.aplu.org/page.aspx?pid=2970

6. Call for Proposals: Citizen Science Association's Inaugural Conference

Jointly convened with American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the first conference of the new Citizen Science Association welcomes proposals from faculty, staff, students (special category or general), and other practitioners. Possible conference strands include grand challenges in science; diversity and inclusion, publishing, cyber technology; social science; and more. A formal all for abstracts is expected in June.

Proposals due: October 23, 2014

More: http://citizenscienceassociation.org/conference/

FUNDING

7. Captain Planet Foundation: Hands-On Environmental Education Activities

The Captain Planet Foundation seeks to promote and support educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through active hands-on projects that improve the environment in their schools and communities. Grants of up to $2,500 are intended to bring environment-based education to schools and inspire youth and communities to participate in community service through environmental stewardship.

Deadline: September 30th, 2014

More: http://captainplanetfoundation.org/apply-for-grants/

8. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Public Health Services and Systems Research Projects

Public Health Services and Systems Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, seeks applications for research projects that strengthen the evidence base for what works in public healthcare administration, financing, and delivery of care. The foundation will award grants of up to $350,000 for up to twenty-four months to qualified research projects. Studies should focus on multidisciplinary research that examines a health system’s operations, financing, and delivery and quality of public health services, and impact on population health. Eligible organizations are either U.S.-based public entities or organizations considered tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Deadline: July 23rd, 2014

More: http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/public-health-services-and-systems-research.html

9. Journalists and Writers Foundation: Proposals for Peacebuilding Projects

JWF will award up to $50,000 for projects that promote peaceful coexistence and peacebuilding. Possible project themes include inter-communal and inter-state dialogue/cooperation; peace education; pluralism and multiculturalism; youth, conflict, and peacebuilding; early warning and conflict prevention; mediation and negotiation; post-conflict reconciliation, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration; good governance, rule of law, and transitional justice; poverty reduction, development, and peacebuilding; and gender equality and empowerment. Successfully implemented projects will receive additional funding of up to $30,000. Nonprofit organizations and individuals (including but not limited to academicians, activists, artists, community organizers, educators, filmmakers, journalists, scholars, social workers, and students) may apply.

Deadline: September 30, 2014

More: http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/forum/topics/call-for-applications-journalists-and-writers-foundation-peace-pr#.U4dl3BBwW8q

NEW RESOURCES & READING

10. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (May 5th, 2014): Tackling Wicked Problems Through Engaged Scholarship

Engaged scholarship combines the work of universities and community partners. Results can be powerful examples of the synergy that arises between theory and practice. Academic benefits extend far beyond the universities as university programs provide realistic training to students as an example of future work-related duties and assignments and to collaborate with community partners in service delivery. Community-engaged scholarship can lead to a strengthened sense of community, lasting partnerships, and increased dialogue surrounding challenging issues. Author Sharon Paynter is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University.

More: http://jces.ua.edu/tackling-wicked-problems-through-engaged-scholarship/

11. Knoxville's "Borderland Tees" Receives the 2014 Institution of Change award from Circle of Change Knoxville

Borderland Tees, a South Knoxville ministry, was recently awarded the 2014 Institution of Change Award from Circle of Change Knoxville for its socially conscious business practices. Borderland Tees includes people experiencing homelessness, former addicts, former convicts, and those suffering from mental illness in an entrepreneurial and participatory ministry that makes screen-printed t-shirts for Knoxville organizations and businesses. The business model has expanded to include Borderland Woodworks, which crafts birdhouses and other custom woodwork.

More: http://knoxzine.com/all/2014/05/16/borderland-tees-where-commerce-altruism-meet/

QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT FUNDING, SUBMISSION CALLS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE

May 2014:

· Pan American Health Organization: Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health. Deadline: May 30th, 2014.

· Call for Nominations: IARSLC Service-Learning and Community Engagement Research Awards. Deadline: May 30, 2014 for all Awards.

· Captain Planet Foundation Accepting Applications for Ecotech Grants. Deadline: May 31st, 2014.

· Call for Proposals: Fourth Annual Intercultural Horizons Conference. Proposal Deadline: May 31, 2014.

· Call for Papers: Shaping Peace – Local Infrastructures and State Formation. Deadline for paper and panel proposals: May 31st, 2014.

June 2014:

· Call for Papers/Posters: American Indigenous Research Association. Deadline: June 1st, 2014.

· Qualitative Health Research Special Issue Seeks Manuscripts Addressing Knowledge Translation. Deadline: June 1st, 2014.

· Diving In: Institute for New Community-Service Learning Professionals. Date: June 2-4, 2014 at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA).