Member Campuses | Resources | Organizations | Issue Briefs
Foundation Staff: Bobby Hackett
Member Campuses link to campus issue profile and lead contact name with email address
Resources training & educational resources | readings | websites, blogs, etc.
Regional & National Organizations current or potential partner organizations
PolicyOptions.org Issue Briefs
- National Issue Brief
- Local Issue Brief(s)
Summary of Campus Issue Profiles
Types of Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy
Specific Issue Areas
- Workforce Development; Neighborhood Revitalization; Bricks and Mortar
- Literacy; Financial, Techlogy
- Capital resources to development funding
- Immigration issues
- Economic partnerships; transportation partnerships
- Non-profit and small business incubators space and resources
- Community leadership development
Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer
- One-time & short-term: Workshop for local business on niche marketing; downtown clean-ups
- Ongoing School Year: Business students development planning and marketing tools for local community; other technical assistance; Quick books training; annual weatherization projects; mortgage assistance; SIFE projects
- Advocacy & Direct Action: Sun Hill community development (Widener) - campus/community advocacy for neighborhood development projects; Ripon – Day at State House, Spanish language calendar for local immigrant community; Sienna – State senate invited to campus and now sees Sienna as resource; Resource development
- Site-based Teams: Use VISTA as site-based team leaders; Environmental task for work with federal wildlife reserve; use Bonners as quasi staff with community partners to help organize other student volunteer projects.
- Summer and Other: Land lease to community development organizations for buildings that benefit both campus and community (i.e., hospital management students running hotel); International partners – project-based work (soil remediation for subsistence farmers in Belize; teacher training in Cambodia; natural family planning methods training in Cambodia); Interns
- Key Community Partners: Pfeiffer/Stanley Community College; Nonprofits; small businesses; city government; regional government; banks; schools; neighborhood revitalization organizations; community development corps
Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes
- Courses & Programs of Study: International business; American Humanics; Community and civic advocacy minor; Nonprofit management; entrepreneurship – business management; civic engineering minor.
- Faculty, Departments & Institutes: Business department – problem-base case study approach; Education and Sports Science – childhood obesity issues
- CBR Projects: CBR effectiveness of guide dogs for autistic individuals helping businesses in town; CBR – childhood obesity issues in Appalachia.
Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities
- Other trainings & workshops: Business and Economics faculty – understanding economic news; financial management; life skills; Econ 101 – life skills to non-Widener community, radio show broadcast to community. Student development training.
Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development
- Fundraising, Resource Development, and Leveraging of Campus Resources: Neighborhood revitalization; Develop capacity to raise money; Informal network development w/campus as convener; Leverage tactics – bring money to the table to raise more money.
- Non-profit Organizational Development: Unity House, Sienna; NPO staff development that follows Bonner model; Develop CEU structure to help expand development model; FWS – community funding for FWS student to work in organization.
Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy
- Evaluation & Studies: Not much there
- Deliberative Democracy (National Issues Forums) & Public Education: Regional forum and collaboration on education funding
Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)
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