| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 69.24 |
| Liaison | Kelsey Beal |
| Submission Date | July 12, 2024 |
Indiana University Indianapolis
EN-10: Community Partnerships
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.00 / 3.00 |
Kelsey
Beal Sustainbility Analyst Office of Sustainability |
1st Partnership
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? :
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe?:
Which of the following best describes the partnership?:
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? :
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability:
The McKinney Climate Fellows (MCF) is a workforce development program administered by the Environmental Resilience Institute and Integrated Program in the Environment.
MCF connects undergraduate and graduate students interested in climate, sustainability, and community resilience with career experiences. The program partners with Indiana-based private, public, and nonprofit organizations to host student fellows and provide solutions-based sustainability expertise.
Climate fellows gain valuable experience working full-time in a professional setting; partners receive assistance in sustainability and climate planning from talented students; and Indiana benefits from this critical sustainability work.
https://eri.iu.edu/climate-project/climate-fellows/index.html
2nd Partnership
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (2nd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (2nd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership’s sustainability focus? (2nd partnership):
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (2nd partnership):
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
Since 2009, the Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic has been a free, student-run clinic that provides primary care-based medical, dental, social and legal services for uninsured and underserved persons in the Indianapolis community annually. Led by IU School of Medicine, this clinic strives to close the health care gap in the community by coordinating a medical presence to address a wide variety of conditions including infections, musculoskeletal complaints, high blood pressure and depression. Schools involved in the clinic include medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work, law, and health and human services. Also involved is the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The clinic is run out of the Neighborhood Fellowship Church on the near eastside of Indianapolis.
3rd Partnership
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (3rd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (3rd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership? (3rd partnership):
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (3rd partnership):
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
The Polis Center's expertise in geoinformatics has helped communities across Indiana to develop emergency management plans, hazard risk analysis, and multi-hazard mitigation planning. The Polis Center recently joined the School of Informatics and Computing SoIC, which positions IUPUI to serve constituencies more effectively in community-based information and analysis, enhances IUPUI’s leadership and application of technology in collaborative and creative solutions for healthier and more resilient communities, and extends IUPUI’s long tradition of service to Indianapolis and Central Indiana. Polis id community facing, collaborating with a wide range of organizations in order to define, measure, and improve community health, well-being, and resiliency
Optional Fields
Website URL where information about the institution’s community partnerships to advance sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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