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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.


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Regional & National Organizations  current or potential partner organizations


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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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