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March Community Engagement Resources and Opportunities!

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March 2015 Newsletter

UNCG's monthly outlet for engagement and outreach spotlights, announcements, upcoming events, funding opportunities, publications, resources, and more!

Data Matters!

Do you ever wonder why we're asking UNCG faculty and staff to report on their community engagement and public service activities? Dr. Emily Janke, Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement shares a brief introduction on UNCG's efforts to track community engagement and public service data for the 2014-15AY, and why this data matters!
Check out the Video Here!

Collective Impact Webinar

Join ICEE and the United Way of Greater Greensboro on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from 8:30am-10:30am for a viewing party of the webinar recording “Building Collaborative Skills for Collective Impact." Delivered by Liz Skelton, Director The Adaptive Practice this webinar will cover: (1) The dynamics of collaboration; (2) Leveraging competition, commitment and control; (3) Understanding and working with power and authority in collaboration; and (4) Engaging the ‘No’.
Register online here to attend!

Community Engagement Speaker Series

Each year UNCG brings nationally and locally renowned community engagement scholar-practitioners to campus to engage with faculty, staff, students, and community colleagues. Be sure to mark your calendars for this spring's speakers!

Brent Brown
On March 5-7 2015, the Department of Interior Architecture and the Center for Community-Engaged Design host the 2nd annual Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design. This year's theme is on housing the homeless, and will facilitate meaningful discussions between faculty, students, design professionals, government officials, non-profits, ecumenical partners, and community members about creative solutions to house the homeless in the Triad. [more]

Dr. Harry Boyte
On March 25, 2015, the Office of Leadership and Service-Learning and co-sponsors will host Dr. Harry Boyte, Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College. Dr. Boyte will facilitate workshops with faculty, staff, students, and community partners on civic professionalism and how to revitalize the civic purposes and democratic story of higher education. [more]

Dr. Barbara Holland
On April 7, 2015, the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement will host Dr. Barbara Holland, higher education consultant, professor at Portland State University and University of Sydney, and Senior Scholar at IUPUI and UNCG. Dr. Holland will speak on the changing tides of scholarship, as academic work and culture are shifting and adapting to the growing need to build more efficient and collaborative models of knowledge discovery and dissemination. [more]

Featured Resources

Each month ICEE highlights resources from across campus and the community to facilitate engagement and outreach activities! This month we focus on organizations and associations that are committed to community engagement and engaged scholarship across a variety of disciplines. We encourage faculty, staff, and students to explore these organizations and the resources they provide. For a more complete list, be sure to check out our website.

Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life
UNCG is currently an institutional member of Imagining America, an association that creates democratic spaces to foster and advance publicly engaged scholarship that draws on arts, humanities, and design. IA catalyzes change in campus practices, structures, and policies that enables artists and scholars to thrive and contribute to community action and revitalization. There are a a variety of opportunities for UNCG faculty, staff, and students to get involved, including an annual conference, research collaboratories, a Publicly Active Gradate Education Fellowship for graduate students, a peer-reviewed journal, and more!

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
CCPH is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. CCPH views health broadly as physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being and emphasize partnership approaches to health that focus on changing the conditions and environments in which people live, work, study, pray and play. By mobilizing knowledge, providing training and technical assistance, conducting research, building coalitions and advocating for supportive policies, CCPH helps to ensure that the reality of community engagement and partnership matches the rhetoric. Faculty, staff, and students may join CCPH as individual members.

International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
IARSLCE is an international non-profit organization devoted to promoting research and discussion about service-learning and community engagement. An IARSLCE membership is included in the registration fees paid to attend the annual conference (this year's conference will be in Boston, MA, Nov 16-18, 2015). IARSLCE also hosts a peer-reviewed journal and recognizes faculty, staff, and students with awards.

North Carolina Campus Compact
As one of 34 state Compacts nationally, North Carolina Campus Compact builds the capacity of colleges and universities to produce civically-engaged graduates and strengthen communities. UNCG maintains an institutional membership with NC Campus Compact, which allows all faculty, staff, and students access to resources like the annual PACE conference, CSNAP student conference, awards, reflection resources, and more! NC Campus Compact also hosts a peer-reviewed journal.

Other Upcoming Events

Community-Engaged Scholarship at UNCG: What is it?
Tuesday, March 3, 12:00pm-1:00pm :: 1607 MHRA Building
As Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Design, UTLC Fellow for Community Engagement Travis Hicks promotes innovation both on and off the UNCG campus through an active commitment to human-centered design principles for the university and the surrounding community. Join Travis and the UTLC for a conversation around community-engaged scholarship, how to build a scholarly engaged agenda, and how to fit it into annual reviews and promotion and tenure at UNCG.

Local FoodSTORM: A brainstorm about local food in Greensboro
Friday, March 27, 12:00pm-3:00pm :: Gatewood Studio Arts Building
Students, faculty, and community members across Greensboro are invited to FOODSTORM - a local brainstorm about Greensboro’s food needs. The purpose of the event is to host interdisciplinary conversations about local food needs and then to catalyze action just in time to gear up for the 2015 growing season!

Webinar: Building Collaborative Skills for Collective Impact
Tuesday, March 31, 8:30am-10:30am :: 1500 Yanceyville Street
Join the UNCG Institute for Community and Economic Engagement and the United Way of Greater Greensboro for a viewing party of the webinar recording “Building Collaborative Skills for Collective Impact.” As government and philanthropic investors continue re-thinking the way they engage with and fund social change, leaders within communities and nonprofits will find themselves being called on to work with these stakeholders in an entirely new way. More and more, the missions of organizations will be enacted through collaborations involving representatives from different sectors. If collaborations are uncharted territory, an easy mistake for everyone to make is assuming they already have the ability to manage whatever challenges may arise. In reality it takes a particular set of skills to engage with people of significantly different mindsets, power levels and agendas.

2015 Behavioral Health Faith Summit
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Save the Date! The 2015 Behavioral Health Faith Summit will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2015. A day of Community Education around the spectrum of Mental Health Concerns, the Summit hopes to bring together the behavioral health, faith, and educational communities to begin a long needed discussion around common concerns.

Upcoming Deadlines

We work hard each month to compile a list of resources and upcoming opportunities related to community engagement, from internal and externally offered grants, to calls for papers and other scholarly products, conferences, awards and recognitions, and more!

UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning has limited funding available for service-learning course-based project support. Contact Kristin Moretto, Assistant Director for Service-Learning, if you have a need for your service-learning course.

Service Year + Higher Education: Innovation Challenge Dissemination. Applications due March 6th, 2015. [more]

2015 Tisch College Summer Institute of Civic Studies (Medford, MA) - Registration deadline March 15th, 2015. [more]

Call for Proposals for the IUPUI Assessment Institute (Indianapolis, IN). Special track in community engagement. Proposals due March 15th, 2015. [more]

Service-Learning Global Course Development Grants, offered by UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning - Submission deadline March 16th, 2015 for a summer exploratory trip. [more]

Detroit Urban Research Center's Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Partnership Academy (Ann Arbor, MI) - Application deadline March 16th, 2015. [more]

Recent humanities PhDs - American Council of Learned Societies Public Humanities Fellowship. Application deadline March 17th, 2015. [more]

Call for Proposals for the Engaged Scholarship Consortium Annual Conference (Philadelphia, PA). Proposals due March 20th, 2015. [more]

Continuums of Service Conference (Long Beach, CA) - Registration due March 24th, 2015. [more]

Call for Proposals for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) annual conference (Boston, MA). Proposals due March 27th, 2015. [more]

UNCG School of Health and Human Sciences accepting faculty nominations for the 2014-2015 Community-Engaged Scholarship Award - Nomination deadline March 30th, 2015. [more]

Ready by 21 National Meeting (children and youth-focused conference, New Orleans, LA) - Registration deadline March 30th, 2015. [more]

Call for Papers: Citizen Science Theory and Practice - Deadline March 31st, 2015. [more]

Graduate Student Applications to the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (part of the Engaged Scholarship Consortium) - Application deadline April 1st, 2015. [more]

International Service-Learning Course Development Grants, offered by UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning - Submission deadline April 1st, 2015 for a summer 2015 course. [more]

Campus Kitchen's Project and the Food Recovery Network's Food Waste and Hunger Summit - register by April 1st, 2015 [more]

Save the date for the CUExpo (Canadian conference on community-campus partnerships in Ottawa, ON). Registration deadline April 5th, 2015. [more]

IUPUI's 7th Annual Connecting Campuses with communities Conference (Indianapolis, IN) - Registration due April 6, 2015. Graduate student scholarships and group discounts available. [more]

Call for Proposals: Fifth Annual Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference. Proposal deadline April 7th, 2015. [more]

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Awards and the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award. Applications due April 10th, 2015. Contact ICEE if you're interested in applying. [more]

Call for papers on health communications in urban/rural communities - Deadline April 15th, 2015. [more]

Society for Values in Higher Education - special focus on collaboration and the future of higher education (Bowling Green, KY). Proposals due April 15th, 2015. [more]

National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grants - to extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations - Application deadline April 16th, 2015). [more]

Presbyterian Hunger Program - grants from $500-$20,000 for projects that attempt to address the root and systemic causes of hunger. Letters of Interest due April 30th, 2015. [more]

Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. Application deadline May 15th, 2015. [more]

National Campus Compact's Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award - due May 22nd, 2015 [more]

2015 edition of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement - Call for Submissions [more]

2015 Frontiers of Democracy Conference (Boston, MA) - Registration ongoing through the spring [more]

Is there any news you'd like to share? Send us an email at communityengagement@uncg.edu!

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