Hi,
I lurk on this list as someone in the UK working on Community Projects, who
used to work for CoPIRG when I was studying in the States. I also do some
work with some of the CTC projects. This list provides interesting insights
into some of the initiatives you guys do which we don't really get into,
like community banking of course! Unfortunately community-university
partnerships are thin on the ground in the UK, although they do happen. UK
universities remain essentially elitist IMHO. However you might want to
check out the work of the Great Steve Thompson and Teeside Valley
Communities On-line which is an outreach project of the University of
Teeside in Middlesborough. They invented the on-line pub quiz called
community challenge which will be made available as a free download from
the help is at hand web-site.
Best wishes for the list and your projects
fred garnett <fred_garnett@becta.org.uk>
head of community programmes
Becta
http://www.tvco.org.uk/
http://www.community-challenge.com/
http://centres.ngfl.gov.uk/
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"'Tim Marshall'" <tmarshall@thebeth.org>
Greetings. Somebody passed along to me the email below concerning your
interest in community-university partnerships.
I believe that the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant
College might fit with your interests. We are a research and educational
Center that trains churches, missionaries, and Christian Community
Development Organizations in various economic development strategies. We
have pilot projects with organizations in the U.S., Kenya, and the
Philippines. We hope to be in Latin America soon. We also train community
development workers via distance learning, regional workshops, and an
annual two-week Institute.
You can learn more about us at www.chalmers.org. I would also be willing to
answer any questions you might have.
Sincerely,
Brian Fikkert
Associate Professor of Economics and Director
Chalmers Center for Economic Development
Covenant College
14049 Scenic Highway
Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
U.S.A.
www.chalmers.org
telephone: 706-419-1810
fax: 706-419-1813
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1. The Campus Compact, a national organization of campuses dedicated to
service and civic engagement has projects in campus/community and
campus/community/corporate partnerships, I'd encourage you to be in touch
with them. The national office is located at Brown
University---www.campuscompact.org 401-867-3950
2. Also, at Cornell Davydd Greenwood and Robert Rich, both have experience
in this area and are also involved in local projects.
From: Debra Dyason <debra.dyason@unitedwaysene.org>
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I thought the work of the Campus Cooperative Development Corporation
(CCDC), a development group we formed in 1987, might fit with the scope of
your research. CCDC works independently of the university, but is focused
on providing technical assistance for local community based organizations
to create housing cooperatives that provide affordable housing for
students. CCDC's methods are very much based on a participatory,
grassroots, "bottom up" approach -- CCDC's work centers on assisting co-op
organizing groups to gain the skills they need to develop new cooperatives,
which in turn contribute to the economic and community development of the
cities where they operate. CCDC has been doing this work for 15 years and
has worked with over two dozen groups during that time. As a result of its
efforts, new co-ops have been founded in many cities including Buffalo, NY;
Chicago, IL; Urbana, IL; Detroit, MI; Memphis, TN; Carrboro, NC: St. Louis,
MO; Athens, OH; Boulder, CO; Eugene, OR; Davis, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; and
Santa Cruz, CA.
Attached please find a brief description of the services CCDC
provides. For additional information, please contact myself; Tracie
Citron, CCDC's Development Coordinator; or Brad Karrer, Funds Manager for
the Cooperative Development Foundation.
Sincerely,
Steve Dubb steve@nasco.coop
Executive Director
North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)
PO Box 7715
Ann Arbor, MI 48107 USA
Tel: 734-663-0889
Fax: 734-663-5072
http://www.nasco.coop
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Please see the attached as a possible lead. I am not sure how your
research is categorizing CBOs, but this case has definitely been
grassroots-based.
The attached draft is for my firm's client- the US EPA and focuses on their
interests in the overall effort. I can provide JMU contacts if you are
interested. Please do not cite or quote from this draft. I can provide
you a final version once EPA has granted approval.
By the way, is this research effort EDA funded?
Thanks!
(See attached file: Shenandoah Story 7-18-02.wpd)
Christopher M. LaRosa CLAROSA@MARASCONEWTON.COM
Community Revitalization Specialist
The Marasco Newton Group
(703) 292-5810
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Might I suggest contacting awolk@bu.edu if this data-gathering initiative
extends to Boston University??
"Barbara Potter" <excape@attglobal.net>
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Hi -
You should speak with Seedco, a nonprofit CDFI based in NYC that has been
enabling university and hospital partnerships with CBOs all around the
country for many years.
Akiko Mitsui <amitsui@hbs.edu>
Harvard Business School
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The National Center on Poverty Law coordinates a statewide coalition
dedicated to expanding financial education and asset-building opportunities
for low-income people in Illinois. We partnered with University of Illinois
Extension to expand their All My Money financial education curriculum to
add 8 new chapters (Your Money & Your Life). We use the combined curriculum
to conduct train the trainer workshops for over 150 cbo staff so that they
can teach financial education to their constituents. The curriculum is also
used in our IDA program. U of I Extension conducts some of the train the
trainer sessions for us and for the FDIC's MoneySmart financial education
program in Chicago.
I know that many other land grant universities/Extension centers have
produced similar curricula. U of Wisconsin at Madison, for example,
developed the Get Checking program to help people with ChexSystems barriers
to opening a checking account clear their record by successfully completing
a financial education class specifically on checking accounts. They work
with cbo's, banks, and eFunds. Get Checking is expanding to other states,
including Illinois.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Dory Rand
Staff Attorney/Financial Links for Low-Income People (FLLIP) Coordinator
National Center on Poverty Law
205 W. Monroe St., 2d Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
(312) 263-3830 ext. 228
(312) 263-3846 fax
doryrand@povertylaw.org
www.povertylaw.org
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Hello
I would like to introduce Fantsuam Foundation to you. We work primarily with
women in rural communities in Nigeria. We have recently began a process of
getting a few local universities involved in action-oriented research based on
issues that are relevant to the rural communities where we work. However, we
quickly realised that we needed to improve the research skills, especially in
participatory approach of our university partners. This is proving to be quite
a challenging task for a small rural-based NGO such as ours.
We will like to receive further information about the university-community
partnerships mentioned in your email. Thank you.
Kachong Funmilola
Information Manager
Fantsuam Foundation
BayanLoco, Adjacent LEA Prtimary School
PO Box 58, Kafanchan
Kaduna State. Nigeria
Tel 00881631447772
From: fantsuamfoundation@fantsuam.com
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>The Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University
>is embarking on an ambitious research project to help strengthen
>university-community partnerships and capacity-building efforts,
>including the training of a new generation of leaders for community
>based organizations (CBOs). We are writing in hopes that you have
>ideas to help tailor this program so it provides maximum benefit for
>those organizations. To initiate our research effort, we are compiling
>a list of university-based applied research and technical assistance
>initiatives that focus on capacity building of CBOs engaged in local
>economic and community development. Specifically, we are
>interested in initiatives that are using participatory, bottom-up,
>grassroots methods. We hope to identify and profile schools that
>are doing exemplary work, drawing upon their experiences to define
>principles of best practice as well as challenges and opportunities
>for the future. This information will help shape new initiatives aimed
>at improving the effectiveness of university-based technical
>assistance efforts and strengthen the role of universities in training
>a new crop of leaders for these organizations. We are hoping you
>have suggestions about university-based initiatives that fit these
>criteria:
>
>1) They provide technical assistance to CBOs
>
>2) They are focused on CBOs engaged in local economic and
>community development
>
>3) They use participatory methods as a core strategy for
>engaging community members and strengthening the organizational
>capacity of CBOs
>
>We would be grateful if you could pass along names and any
>contact information you might have for initiatives that you think
>meet these criteria by July 22nd.
>
>If you have questions or would like more information, please do not
>hesitate to ask. Thank you in advance for your time. We look
>forward to sharing our initial results with you in the near future.
>
>Sincerely,
>Kenneth M. Reardon Joshua Abrams David Driskell
>Associate Professor MRP Candidate Visiting Scholar
>(607) 254-5375 (607) 255-9156 (607) 257-4244
>kmr22@cornell.edu jna8@cornell.edu dd96@cornell.edu
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