Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
EN-10: Community Partnerships

IUPUI has a long-standing partnership with the Near West community, located just across White River from campus. Dating back to the late 1990's, IUPUI supported engagement in Near West through the Office of Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2015, the area was designated one of four Great Places 2020 communities, a program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. IUPUI serves as the convener for this commuity, recognized as River West, and has dedicated staff time to this initiative. As part of this role, we have worked with community members to update and implement their quality of life plan focused on four areas: Livability, making neighborhoods great places to live; Opportunity, spurring economic growth; Vitality, attracting new residents; and Education, improving educational
opportunities for all ages. As a result of these efforts the community has become home to several new arts organizations, Indy Convergence and the Fonseca Theater, as well as SOURCE River West entrepreneurship center. In AY20 the Office of Community Engagement hired a part-time staff person to improve communication in the community, a priority identified by the Near West community.
http://www.sourcerw.org/
https://www.nearwestindy.org/
https://fonsecatheatre.org/
http://www.indyconvergence.org/

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. In 2017, the clinic had 863 patient encounters, volunteers served more than 13,000 hours, 3,300 prescriptions were dispensed and students raised more than $17,000 to support the operations. Clinic partners have continued to expand to meet the needs of the residents. https://medicine.iu.edu/campuses/indianapolis/service-learning/outreach-clinic/

The Indiana Sustainability Development Program (ISDP) program partners with Indiana-based private, public and nonprofit organizations to host summer fellows throughout the Hoosier state to 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 the ISDP resource network, and Indiana benefits from this critical sustainability work.

Indiana faces a myriad of sustainability and climate-related challenges, now and into the future. These are not environmental problems alone – the Hoosier state ranks 49th in terms of pollution and related public health risks. We need talented, climate-competent sustainability professionals prepared to tackle these challenges. The ISDP program serves as a workforce development program for our own IU students systemwide, providing opportunities to learn and help solve our own sustainability challenges in Indiana.

2020 Excellence in Sustainability Award
Indiana University has received the NACUBO 2020 Excellence in Sustainability Award for its Indiana Sustainability Development Program (ISDP), which aims to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for sustainability jobs within the state. With a multi-prong approach, ISDP trains future sustainability workers with the hope that they ultimately find employment within Indiana’s corporate, nonprofit, government, and higher education sectors.
https://www.nacubo.org/Get-Involved/NACUBO-Awards/Excellence-in-Sustainability-Award-Recipients

https://sustain.iu.edu/isdp/index.html

SOURCE River West entrepreneurship center promotes and encourages business ownership by assisting with the launch of entrepreneurial ventures and supporting start-up to scale-up businesses that create jobs, improve the quality of life, and strengthen the community in Indianapolis' Near West community and central Indiana. SOURCE provides resources and training to up to 300 people every year.
sourcerw.org

Diabetes Impact Project seeks to increase screening-seeking behavior for those at high risk of diabetes, improving access and continuity of care for people with diabetes, and foster an environment (physical and social) that supports diabetes control and prevention.
https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/diabetes-impact-project.html

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 will remain community facing, collaborating with a wide range of organizations in order to define, measure, and improve community health, well-being, and resiliency.
https://polis.iupui.edu/collaborations/resiliency/

Local artist and IU alumn, Stuart Hyatt, launches storytelling project with the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, with the support of The National Geographic Society, is making field recordings of bat echolocations that will become part of a forthcoming album of contemporary music with many human collaborators under the title Ultrasonic: Making Music with Endangered Bats.
https://www.nuvo.net/arts/stuart-hyatt-s-bat-houses-are-now-occupied/article_c4678d70-d94d-11e9-815c-bbe63e8ed516.html

The IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship partnered with the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to scan 3D portraits of 19 graduating seniors, to be 3D printed for unique and accessible senior portraits.
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/04/iupui/inside/18-digital-scholarship-team-gives-blind-students-senior-portraits.html

IUPUI's Indiana Peer Education Program ECHO partners with Indiana prisons to train people who are incarcerated to become health resources and advocates for their peers. Graduates of the program can then pass on knowledge to their peers about common health conditions affecting prison populations, including infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, staph/MRSA skin infections and tuberculosis; mental health issues such as suicide risk, depression and anxiety; HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; diabetes; and addiction.
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/07/iupui/releases/31-public-health-training-indiana-prisoners-peer-educators.html

Gabriel Filippelli, a geochemist in the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI, is one of a team of four researchers from around the world participating in 360 Dust Analysis, a citizen-scientist approach to looking at indoor dust. US and Canadian households can submit samples of their dust to IUPUI for a free analysis of its contents. The project will include analysis of lead, chromium, arsenic, copper and zinc. Participants receive an analysis of each sample and detailed information about their dust and helpful suggestions on ways to mitigate any health risk associated with the contaminants found in their home. https://www.360dustanalysis.com/

IUPUI is active in several national anchor institution networks including:
- the Anchor Learning Network, a partnership between the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities and Democracy Collaborative https://www.cumuonline.org/cumu-initiatives/anchor-mission-initiative
- the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities' Commission on Economic and Community Engagement
https://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/economic-development-and-community-engagement/
- the Anchor Institutions Task Force
https://www.margainc.com/aitf/
-In 2017, IUPUI participated in an Anchor Housing program initiated by the Indianapolis Chamber in conjunction with the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership. The program provided incentives for employees to purchase or rehabilitate a home in areas near campus. Five employees completed the program, four to purchase a home and one to rehabilitate.

News at IUPUI: https://news.iu.edu/iupui/index.html
* IUPUI wins Engaged Campus of the Year award from Indiana Campus Compact; News at IUPUI, March 26, 2018

* IUPUI kicks off campuswide Habitat for Humanity home build; News at IUPUI, September 19, 2018

* IUPUI joins the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative: News at IUPUI, April 10, 2018

*Gabriel Filippelli, a professor of earth sciences in the School of Science, is receiving the Charles R. Bantz Chancellor's Community Fellowship award of $50,000 for his project titled "Building healthy cities through community-engaged science and action: Getting the lead out." He is seeking to understand the context and causation of lead poisoning in Indianapolis. His research will engage youth leadership fellows and other community partners as citizen-scientists to take action in their neighborhoods to identify and eliminate environmental risks.
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2017/04/iupui/releases/21-chancellors-honors-convocation.html

IUPUI - engaging with communities
https://engage.iupui.edu/partner/Engagement-map/index.html
Our students, faculty and staff are engaged with the community through course work, research, service and partnerships. Learn where, how and with whom we are involved and what issues we are partnering to address through the community engagement map and Collaboratory database below.
Engagement Map: https://engage.iupui.edu/map/index.html
Collaboratory: https://he.cecollaboratory.com/iupui