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Partnerships, Placements & Projects
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This form is intended for your Bonner Program and Center to use to help communicate with community partners to identify potential capacity building opportunities. Modify the text and the questions in the survey as needed. This updated form gives a list of 75 specific capacity-building project opportunities in seven distinct areas: Event Management (3), Fundraising (6), Marketing & Communications (34), Program & Curriculum Development (5), Research (8), Technology (8), and Volunteer Management System (11).
This is a simplified and visually appealing version of the more exhaustive list of capacity-building opportunities. Use this document to spark interest and conversation with community partners, and have the longer (expanded) list available if you find that helpful in brainstorming more specific opportunities.
Once you decide on a capacity-building project, use this form with your community partner to provide the basic information for their specific project request.
Use this form to:
The two-page standard Bonner CLA which should be completed for all placements beyond the one-time short-term service project.
This form will help you gather basic information on what kinds of capacity building projects were completed by students.
The 23-page Bonner Implementation Guide for Community-Based Research (pdf) is a comprehensive guide includes handouts and worksheets for integrating community-based researching into your campus community and civic engagement efforts. This 23 page guide covers the following steps:
This guide narrates how one program (Macalester College) brought partners together to work through the Capacity Building Opportunities Form. Then, the program also integrated an introduction and discussion of the partners' interests in capacity building projects into meetings with students. Together, Bonner staff, students, and partners then created positions that enabled Bonner students to take on new projects. See this guide for more help in how to do this.
Online Volunteering Opportunities
Keep on Partnering: excellent example of local engagement resources page in Richmond, Virginia by Virginia Commonwealth University
GivePulse: online platform used by many campuses and their local community partners to manage their volunteers. GivePulse has posted information on remote/virtual volunteer opportunities and other resources.
Tutoria: https://tutoria.io - Offer free tutoring in these two areas: 1) Practice conversational and/or written English with clients 2) Prepare clients for the U.S. Naturalization exam
UN Volunteers: https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities - choose from multiple opportunities such as creating educational videos for small children, translating documents in various languages, creating social-media campaigns
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: https://transcription.si.edu - Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help them make historical documental and biodiversity data more accessible.
Translators Without Borders: https://translatorswithoutborders.org/volunteer/ - You can volunteer with TWB if you are fluent in at least one language other than your native language. Whether you are interested in translating medical texts or translating for crisis response, there are engaging projects available to suit all preferences.
7 Cups of Tea: https://www.7cups.com - 7 Cups of Tea is an online emotional support service. Through a secure, anonymous bridging technology, they connect those in need of emotional support with their network of Active Listeners. If you are interested in volunteering as an active listener with this organization, complete the active listening course and create your listener profile.
Be My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.com - As a sighted volunteer, you can help just by installing the Be My Eyes app. A blind or a low-vision user may need help with anything from checking expiry dates, distinguishing colors, reading instructions or navigating new surroundings.
Chemo Angels: https://www.chemoangels.com/angel-pre-app - As a chemo angel, you will send your assigned patient at least one card, letter, or note a week. Being a Card Angel is a long-term commitment, depending on the patient's treatment.
University–community (U-C) partnerships have the potential to respond to society’s most pressing needs through engaged scholarship. Despite this promise, partnerships face paradoxical tensions and inherent contradictions that are often not fully addressed in U-C partnership models or frameworks, or in practice. This article seeks to explore the root causes of tensions from a historical and structural perspective, reexamining traditional models of U-C partnership collaborations. Organizational ideas of paradox and strategic contradiction are then presented as a new lens through which to see and influence collaborative work. A framework for modifying current U-C partnership models is introduced, along with a discussion of limitations and implications for research and practice.
Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education demonstrates how colleges and universities can enhance the engagement of their students, faculty, and institutional resources in their communities. This volume features strategies to make this work deep, pervasive, integrated, and developmental, qualities recognized by the Carnegie Classification guidelines and others in higher education as best practice. The chapters share perspectives, frameworks, knowledge, and practices of more than a dozen institutions of higher education that practice community engagement in sustained ways, drawing on their connections to more than two decades' experience in the Bonner Foundation network. Perspectives from these campuses and respected scholars and practitioners in the field present proven models for student leadership and development, sustained partnerships, faculty engagement, institutionalization of campus centers, and changes to teaching and learning.
This article delves into some strategies for colleges and universities to address the economic, employment, and development needs of neighboring communities. The ideas here may particularly help campuses who are working on creating community centers and hubs for linking high-impact practices and community engagement.