Eleven Community-Based Research Innovation Grants Awarded

[colist at comm-org.wisc.edu]

From: "Lauren T. Davis" <ld2 at Princeton.EDU>


The National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative is pleased 
to announce that it has selected 11 institutions of higher education to 
receive funding for innovative community-based research projects. Of 
nearly 100 proposals, these projects were selected for their innovation 
and anticipated contributions to the field of community-based research 
(CBR), which engages faculty, students, and community stakeholders in 
research projects that aim to affect social change. Each is built on the 
foundation of a strong existing CBR program that will provide the 
infrastructure necessary to involve students, faculty, and community 
partners in innovative research projects that will be developed, 
documented, and shared through grant funding.

The institutions whose projects were selected are: Appalachian State 
University, Boone, NC; Bates College, Lewiston, ME; Berea College, 
Berea, KY; Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Trinity University, San 
Antonio, TX; Tufts University, Somerville, MA; University of 
California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; University of Vermont, Burlington, 
VT; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Western Carolina University, 
Cullowhee, NC; Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. To read individual 
project profiles, please visit: 
http://www.cbrnet.org/Archives/2007/March/11CBRProjectsReceiveInno.html

In being awarded innovation grants, these institutions join the National 
CBR Networking Initiative, a larger network of community-based research 
practitioners funded by Learn & Serve America and spearheaded by 
Princeton University and the Bonner Foundation. This Initiative is 
coordinated by Princeton University’s Community-Based Learning 
Initiative and will generate a range of best-practice tools and 
resources, including websites, manuals, and data valuable to students, 
faculty, and the community. Innovation subgrantees, whose projects are 
described below, will make significant contributions to this network as 
they develop and share new models for community-based research, as well 
as tools and resources to support other institutions in implementing 
them. To learn more about the Networking Initiative and community-based 
research, please visit the project website, www.cbrnet.org.

Lauren Davis, Project Coordinator
Community-Based Learning Initiative
Princeton University
33 Frist Campus Center, Room 201G
Princeton, NJ 08544

Telephone: 609-258-9750
Fax: 609-258-8180
E-mail: ld2 at princeton.EDU
www.princeton.edu/~cbli
www.cbrnet.org