Funding for Collective Impact
The Ginsberg Center supported seventeen university-community partnerships though our Community Engagement Grants to support community-engaged faculty research and teaching.
We partnered with the Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs, the Office of Research, and Poverty Solutions to offer a collaborative funding model encouraging -- and practicing -- collective action to increase our impact in service to the public good.
Overview of Projects
We invited teaching and research proposals focused on advancing equity and decreasing economic and racial disparities in Washtenaw County, Detroit, and other Southeast Michigan communities, especially in the areas of education, employment, and housing. We have funded 27 projects involving 58 university partners and 72 community partners from a number of schools (Education, Information, Medicine, Public Health, Ross School of Business, Social Work, and Taubman), including several multidisciplinary projects
We also partnered with the Center for Interprofessional Education to offer community engagement grants to support interprofessional education in the health sciences. These projects involved faculty from the Ann Arbor campus (Pharmacy & Nursing), as well as the Flint campus (Physical Therapy, Public Health, and Nursing).
Focused on Civic Engagement
Focused on Detroit
- Mapping the Water Crisis:The Dismantling of African-American Neighborhoods in Detroit (2018)
- Belle Isle and beyond (2019)
- Fostering sustainable community-based entrepreneurship via the Detroit Neighborhood Tours Collective (2019)
- Shared Mobility Systems to Address Transportation Barriers of Underserved Urban Communities (2020)
Focused on Health Outcomes
- Expanding the Impact of the Housing, Heatwaves, & Health Partnership (2018)
- Implementation of AIMS at community-based organizations in Southeast Michigan (2018)
- UM Medical School HEAL (Healthcare Education and Access Liaisons) (2018)
- Collaborative health equity in action course project (2019)
- Community wellness in Flint(2019)
- Michigan Prison Doulas Initiative & Survivor Moms' Companion partnership (2019)
- Addressing a Critical Gap: Perceptions of Young African American Men of their Access to Sexual Health Services in a Community-Based Setting In the United States (2019)
Focused on Interprofessional Education
- Community Partners in a Diabetes Education Program (2018)
- Developing a Mutually-Beneficial Partnership with Ann Arbor Housing Commission to Improve Community Health and Sustain Community Health Education for Interprofessional Student Health Teams (2018)
- Developing community IPE care models via Pharmacy, Dental, and Dietetic students at Cranbrook Tower (2019)
- Expansion of an academic-community partnership: Ann Arbor Housing Commission and the University of Michigan (2019)
- Advancing Health Equity through Continuing Education-Implicit and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare Course (2021)
- Investigating Coronavirus Vaccination Intentions Among Vulnerable Populations (2021)
Focused on Immigrant & Migrant Communities
- Advancing social change in partnership with mixed-status immigrant families in Washtenaw County (2018)
- Putting Academic Access into Practice for 4th – 8th Grade English Language Learners (2018)
- Sustaining Hope, Providing Information to Undocumented Students about Educational Opportunities in Michigan Communities (2018)
- The ‘urban assemblage’ of immigrant organizations in southeast Michigan: Documenting and examining functions and socio-spatiality (2018)
- Migrant and seasonal farmworkers’ health and labor: Building a foundation for community-based participatory research in Michigan (2019)
- The TEAM AYUDA Project (2020)
- The Ethnic-racial and Sociopolitical Socialization of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families: The Role of Parental Involvement in Immigrant Rights Organization (2020)
- Immigrant Justice Lab Pro Se Guides (2020)
Focused on Highlighting Community Perspectives
- Ypsilanti Youth Creating Change: Data Dialogues for Youth Voice and Action (2018)
- Co-designing Multifunctional Landscapes Using an Interactive Video Game: Intergeneration Engagement and Community Leadership Development (2018)
- Youth-driven assessment of health center spaces in Southeast Michigan (2019)
- Engaging minority and low-income communities in deliberations about community health priorities (2019)
- Service Stories (2020)
Focused on Older Adults
- Addressing Health Technology Education Disparities for Older Adults (2018)
- Comprehensive Community Assessment of Detroit's Older Adults (2018)
- Community partnership with Henry Ford Village: Implementation and evaluation of a walk initiative pilot program for the elderly (2019)
- Re-imagining the senior center: Advancing equity among older adults in Detroit (2019)
- Critical Intersectionality and LGBTQ+ Organizations in Southeast Michigan: Health and Housing Advocacy for Older Adults (2020)
Focused on Strengthening Community Partnerships
- Engaging Graduate Students with Local Community Partners to Create Written Products for Public Health Practice (2020)
- Community Engagement Among UM Public Health Students During COVID-19: What Can we Learn to Overcome Future Challenges? (2020)
- Exploring the Impact of University-Community Collaborations in Schools (2020)