Sub-categories in this issue

• Here you want to note sub-topics or other names for this issue area.  You want to utilize real names (phrases, titles) that you use in practice.  For example, within HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS, note sub-categories such as:
  • Anti-Hunger Programs, Food Pantries, and Soup Kitchens
  • Shelters and Temporary Housing
  • Affordable Housing
  • Job Training Programs 

Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

Short-Term

• Here, you'd note any one-day, short-term or event-based service programs that your campus does in this issue area.  You can use real names (such as Super Service Saturday -Kids' Carnival) and then a brief explanation.

Ongoing School Year

• Here, you'd list your ongoing or school year community partners (schools, agencies, etc.) and the type of service you are doing.  Again, you can use the real name of the site, but also provide a brief description of the type of direct service provided.  See examples on the summative WORKING GROUP PAGES (sidebar).

Summer

• Here, you'd list summer placements and how they are relevant.  For example, within YOUTH DEVELOPMENT you might list 4-H Kids' Camp:  leadership development and mentoring for middle school youth 

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

Courses and Academic Programs

• List the titles and a brief description of actual courses that are relevant to this issue.  You can note if the course has a service-learning component, but it need not have one.
• You can also list relevant academic programs that are like courses (such as independent study, fourth credit or other options).

Departments and Institutes

• List the departments and institutes (inter-disciplinary programs) that your college/university offers that connect to this issue area. If possible, provide an example of which courses or initiatives are relevant (briefly, in parentheses).  For example:
  • Spanish (service-learning courses, oral history projects with immigrants)
  • Engineering (applied design course, in which students take on a project for the city)

Service-learning, CBR, and Policy Research

• Share a brief (2-3 sentence) narrative description of the service-learning, community-based research or public policy research that your college/university students' and/or faculty do on this issue.  For example:
  • "In Spanish 201, students work at the local free health clinic, translating medical forms and assisting as interpreters."
  • "In Biology 104, students conduct environmental quality assessments, such as the pollution level of rivers and other waterways."

Some of this will seem redundant, and it is. The point is to provide a concise, yet clear, description of what is happening at your campus.

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

Forums

• Here, you want to know any relevant educational forums, such as colloquia, special seminars, guest lecturers, or other activities that have provided education to your campus community (students, faculty, staff, community residents) on this issue

Workshops & Trainings

• Here, you want to note workshops or other training you actually provide to Bonners and/or other students engaged in service.
• If you know about and/or utilize printed, online or other partners' training materials, please note this as well.  Include links and sources (where to find this information).
• Try to include enough information that it is clear to someone who is not from your institution or community.  Yet, be concise. 

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

• Here you want to describe any additional resource development, fundraising, or other forms of capacity building that your institution is involved with on this issue.  For example, that might include:
  • Admissions or recruitment policies that are relevant
  • Fundraising, grant-writing, or collaborative resource development efforts (countywide, statewide, consortia)
  • Non-profit certificates, training programs, board development seminars, and other organizational development schemes. 

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

• Note any relevant studies, assessments, and evaluations that your institution has on this issue (e.g., carried out by particular faculty or departments)
• Describe efforts your institution has made or is making to carry out policy research and analysis or to be in a policy advocacy / formulation role
• Note any deliberative democracy forums (e.g., National Issue Forums, candidate forums, town hall meetings, etc.) on the issue that your institution has helped to convene 

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

• List names, phone numbers, and emails of relevant contacts