The Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. Collaborative

Community-Based Research Grants

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2012 Mini-Grant Recipients

Assessing the Impact of Head Start on Children and Families	Building Parent Involvement in South Bend	South Bend Neighborhoods and Prisoner Reentry

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2011 Community Impact Grant Recipients

The Monroe Park Food Cooperative

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The Center offers three Mini-Grants in the amount of $7,000 each to support joint faculty-student-community research partnerships addressing a need articulated by the community organization. These grants may support the planning and development of new projects, the expansion of existing ones, or the evaluation of on-going or previously completed projects.

The purposes of the grants are to foster faculty-student-community partnerships that: 

• Result in measurable, positive impact in the South Bend area;
• Reflect the investment of both faculty and community partner expertise in the local community; and
• Offer students community-based learning opportunities that promote civic responsibility.

When the grant recipient is announced, the partnership will receive up to $6,000 to cover costs associated with the project, to be kept in the faculty partner's account. The remaining $1,000 will be similarly awarded within three years of the first part of the grant disbursement if the partnership can show: (1) evidence of the positive impact the partnership has had locally, and (2) a refereed publication, or other work considered of high merit in the faculty member’s field, or a presentation at a national or regional conference.

Ganey Proposal Guidelines

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Previous Mini-Grant Recipients:

2011 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Evaluation of the “Talk with Your Baby” Program
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
• Improving Infant Health in St. Joseph County

2010 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Emergency Response Systems for the St. Joseph County Chapter of the American Red Cross: Databases, GPS, GIS Spatial Queries, Mapping, and Mobile Access
• Health Disparities in St. Joseph County: Understanding Why Black Women Don’t Breastfeed
• Using Interactive Robots to Scaffold Social Skills for Children with Autism

2009 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Personalized Information Technology Interventions and Their Roles in Teen Obesity Management
• Building Leaders, Framing Injustice: Religious Networks, Grassroots Organizing, and Latino Integration
• Reaching Out to Urban Adolescents through Sports: A Collaboration with the South Bend Police Department

2008 Mini-Grant Recipients

• From Punishment to Prevention and Restoration: Redirecting Resources toward a Comprehensive Community Response to Crime and Violence
• Improving the Home Environment: Giving Children a Head Start
• Reducing School Switching to Increase Student Achievement

2007 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Environmental Health in Local Poor and Minority Neighborhoods
• Estimating the Economic Impact of Undocumented Workers and Their Families in the South Bend Area
• Preventing Childhood Obesity: Examining Access to Healthy Foods on the West Side of South Bend
• Foreclosed and Abandoned Homes in South Bend: A Search for Causes and Solutions

2006 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Get the Lead Out: Preventing Poisoning in America’s Youth
• Economic Development in St. Joseph County: Improving our Quality of Life
• Student Engineers Reaching Out: Applied Engineering in the Service of South Bend Citizens with Disabilities

2005 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Culture Barriers and African-American Women in South Bend: Improving Breast Care Screening
• Addressing the Challenges of Refugee Resettlement: Analyzing and Improving Employment Outcomes
• At the Intersection: Arts Education, Cultural Policy, Community Development and Capacity Building

2004 Mini-Grant Recipients

• Avanti: A Post-Industrial Ghost Story
• Writing UP