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Topic: Collaboration

Resilient Network of Workforce and Opioid-focused Rural Community-Organizations

S&T Collaboration, Community Engagement, Workforce Development

Our mission is to go beyond current opioid coalition efforts as we will be purposefully applying organizational science, workforce development strategy, and systems engineering to assist rural communities in developing an R-NetWORC Center to combat OUD.

Art in Translation’ exhibit – an ekphrasis project between S&T & UMSL

Art in Translation’ exhibit – an ekphrasis project between S&T & UMSL

S&T, UMSL Arts & Culture, Collaboration

‘Art in Translation’ exhibit — an ekphrasis project between S&T & UMSL

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Community outreach events

Community outreach events

S&T Collaboration, Community Development, Community Engagement

Missouri S&T introduces a new community outreach program designed to raise awareness of the university among community leaders.

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Health and Wellness Video Series: Move More, Get More!

Health and Wellness Video Series: Move More, Get More!

UMKC Collaboration, Community Engagement, Health, Public Health, Research & Data, Youth Programming

UMKC’s Health and Wellness Video Series is a collection of six videos produced during UMKC’s 2021 Engagement Month Celebration. Each video highlights ways that UMKC is contributing to important work in the community in the field of healthcare.

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Collaboration Health Health Disparities Kansas City Program Public Health Research Youth
Risco, MO seeks to change its food desert status

Risco, MO seeks to change its food desert status

MU Business, Collaboration, Community Development, Community Engagement, Community Health, Food

MU Extension Community Economic Development Field Specialist Richard Proffer meets regularly with Risco residents to guide them to establishing a local limited use food store.

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Economic Development Rural Development Small Business Development
A New Online Exhibit Brings Insight into the 1968 Kansas City Uprising

A New Online Exhibit Brings Insight into the 1968 Kansas City Uprising

UMKC Collaboration, Community Engagement, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC, in collaboration with the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center and Prospect Business Association, has put together an online exhibit highlighting the days following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Civil Rights Prospect Business Association UMKC Libraries
Move More Get More

Move More Get More

UMKC Collaboration, Community Engagement, Health, Public Health, Research & Data, Youth Programming

Move More Get More is a federally funded program to increase physical activity and nutrition among middle school students in Kansas City Public Schools.

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Collaboration Health Health Disparities Kansas City Program Public Health Research Youth
Dinosaurs and Cavemen Science Expo

Dinosaurs and Cavemen Science Expo

MU Arts & Culture, Collaboration, Education

The Dinosaurs & Cavemen Science Expo is an annual fair held on or off campus that brings researchers, community partners and the public together to celebrate paleontology, natural history and science through activities, demonstrations and guest speakers.

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Community Museum Research
Des Lee Collaborative Vision

Des Lee Collaborative Vision

UMSL Arts & Culture, Collaboration, Community Development, Community Engagement, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Public Health, Research & Data

The Des Lee Collaborative Vision is a project that links the expertise and resources at universities with educational, cultural and social service institutions in the community. Working through a select group of endowed professors partnering with community entities, the DLCV is able to enhance education, improve the quality of life throughout the St. Louis area […]

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Art Business Collaboration Community Diversity Economic Development Education Health Health Disparities History Leadership Library Outreach Partnership Policy Research Science
Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center

Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center

UMSL Arts & Culture, Collaboration

The Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center is a landmark performance facility on the UMSL campus built to provide a performance home for campus events, academic programs, and regional arts organizations.

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Art Conference Education Events
Troostapalooza- A Part of UMKC Engagement Month

Troostapalooza- A Part of UMKC Engagement Month

UMKC Business, Collaboration, Community Development, Community Engagement

Troostapalooza celebrates the local community by bringing together neighbors, small businesses, and entrepreneurs to engage with their community and highlight the Troost Corridor.

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Community Diversity Economic Development Engagement Month Engagement Week Entrepreneurship Troost/Prospect
Saxophone Supreme: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

Saxophone Supreme: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

UMKC Arts & Culture, Collaboration

This exhibit, Saxophone Supreme, is a partnership between the American Jazz Museum and UMKC Libraries celebrating the Centennial of Charlie “Bird” Parker, one of the most influential musicians and composers of all time.

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Collaboration Kansas City History Music UMKC Libraries
The Impact of a Global Pandemic on Local Child in Need of Care Cases

The Impact of a Global Pandemic on Local Child in Need of Care Cases

UMKC Collaboration, COVID-19, Social Work

Collaboration between UMKC School of Social Work and Assistant District Attorney in Wyandotte County to assess the impact of the COVID – 19 outbreak on local Child in Need of Care (CINC) cases.

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Collaboration Community Health
Charting the LifeCourse Virtual Showcase 2020

Charting the LifeCourse Virtual Showcase 2020

UMKC Collaboration, Community Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Professional Development

UMKC Institute for Human Development’s Charting the LifeCourse team adapted to COVID-19 by pivoting its 4th annual National Showcase to a series of virtual events.

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Community Conference Disability Education
Extra Credit Film Series

Extra Credit Film Series

MU Collaboration, Education

Extra Credit is a once-a-month movie series featuring a panel of MU researchers who expand on some aspect of a movie relation to their research and creative activities. This event also features a Q&A with the audience, and is a collaboration between The Connector and Ragtag Cinema.

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Art Collaboration Research
St. Louis Public Radio

St. Louis Public Radio

UMSL Collaboration, News

St. Louis Public Radio is a news organization and NPR member station. St. Louis Public Radio’s mission is “to inform and provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures for a more inspired and engaged public.”

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Community Education
Project Daylight: Using Theater to Reduce Trauma in Adolescents

Project Daylight: Using Theater to Reduce Trauma in Adolescents

UMKC Arts & Culture, Collaboration, Education

Project Daylight provides theater opportunities for at-risk youth in order for them to work on issues of trauma. Three faculty with the School of Social Work and a number of MSW students will be conducting the Program Evaluation.

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Character Education Collaboration Education
Anchor Institution Initiative

Anchor Institution Initiative

UMSL Collaboration, Community Development, Education, Research & Data, Workforce Development

UMSL has embraced an Anchor Mission and is committed to intentionally applying the University’s place-based operational and educational assets in partnership with community to build a strong North County and Saint Louis region. Leaders across the University identified four core areas where UMSL can support our local community – Economic Development, Housing and Community Development, […]

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Economic Development Health Housing
Taking Truancy from Punitive to Positive: Developing a Social Support Mobile Application for Wyandotte County Schools

Taking Truancy from Punitive to Positive: Developing a Social Support Mobile Application for Wyandotte County Schools

UMKC Collaboration, Community Development, COVID-19, Research & Data

Changing the approach of truancy from face to face in court hearings to virtual social support will be a new and innovative approach to reducing truancy and supporting students with what they need to be successful in school.

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Education
Green St. Louis Machine

Green St. Louis Machine

UMSL Collaboration, Food, Youth Programming

The Green St. Louis Machine (GSM) is an educational initiative focused on promoting healthy eating, engaging students in STEM practices, and developing skills in urban agriculture, entrepreneurship, and community engagement.

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Education Food Health
Thread STL

Thread STL

UMSL Collaboration, Nonprofit

As the bedrock of the Community Innovation and Action Center at UMSL’s emerging portfolio of strategies to strengthen the region’s many community partnerships and coalitions, Thread STL is a community of practice that brings together partnership leaders for facilitated peer-to-peer connection, coaching, and problem solving.

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Community Partnership Support
Project Lead the Way

Project Lead the Way

S&T Collaboration, Community Development, Education

Through $250,000 in state funds, Missouri S&T is providing Project Lead the Way grants to school districts in 10 south-central Missouri counties. A total of 41 school districts are eligible for the grants.

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Community Education Stem Education
Beyond Campus

Beyond Campus

MU Collaboration, Education, Professional Development

Beyond Campus is a lecture series which brings the College of Arts and Science to the community.

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Character Education Community Conference Education
Missouri Youth Institute

Missouri Youth Institute

MU Collaboration, Education, Food, Youth Programming

The Missouri Youth Institute is a program of the World Food Prize that connects outstanding high schoolers with leaders in the fight to end world hunger.

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Character Education Education Food Leadership
Engaged Mizzou: Office of Service-Learning

Engaged Mizzou: Office of Service-Learning

MU Collaboration, Community Development, Education

Service-Learning is the formal integration of community service into student instruction. Service-learning connects students with the community in partnerships that provide effective and far-reaching assistance to those in need.

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Character Education Collaboration Community Education
Grow Well Missouri

Grow Well Missouri

MU Collaboration, Community Development, Food, Health, Nonprofit

Grow Well Missouri partners with food pantries, local organizations, and volunteers to establish food gardening programs that reach out to food pantry customers.

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Agriculture Food Volunteerism and Service
KC No Violence Alliance (NoVA)

KC No Violence Alliance (NoVA)

UMKC Collaboration, Community Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

NoVA is a multi-agency collaboration between Kansas City criminal justice agencies that focuses on addressing violent crime. Faculty within the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology (in the College of Arts and Sciences) have worked with NoVA since 2013.

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Civil Rights Collaboration Community
eitas: Designing a New Generation of Responsive Programming

eitas: Designing a New Generation of Responsive Programming

UMKC Collaboration, Education, Health, Nonprofit

The Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC has partnered with eitas, to coordinate the development of programs that serve citizens who experience some form of developmental disability and their families.

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Community Disability
Abandoned 2 Vibrant

Abandoned 2 Vibrant

UMKC Collaboration, Community Development, Research & Data

Abandoned 2 Vibrant (A2V) is a partnership with the Kansas City, MO Land Bank to help potential buyers of abandoned homes select houses that best fit their needs. The project uses advanced data processing to provide these insights

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Community Data Technology
The Collaborative Laboratory Internships and Mentoring Blueprint (CLIMB) Program

The Collaborative Laboratory Internships and Mentoring Blueprint (CLIMB) Program

UMSL Collaboration, Education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), Workforce Development, Youth Programming

CLIMB is a partnership between the University of Missouri–St. Louis and the Jennings and University City school districts. Each summer since 2015, UMSL has offered 10-15 paid summer internships for bright high school students from these districts. Structured weekly activities engage the CLIMB interns to think like a scientist and do research with UMSL faculty […]

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Collaboration Education Research
Creating Whole Communities NLF

Creating Whole Communities NLF

UMSL Collaboration, Community Development, Education, Professional Development, Workforce Development

The mission of Neighborhood Leadership Fellows (NLF) is to increase and amplify the voices of North St. Louis City and County residents at the civic decision-making tables in order to produce more equitable regional policies for neighborhoods.

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Community Diversity Training
STL Youth Jobs

STL Youth Jobs

UMSL Collaboration, Community Development, Education, Workforce Development

STL Youth Jobs is a civic collaboration providing meaningful employment opportunities for at-risk youth in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Collaboration Community Education
Mizzou Youth Experience

Mizzou Youth Experience

MU Collaboration, Education, Youth Programming

The Mizzou Youth Experience collaborates between the University and the larger community to give 7th and 8th graders a unique inside look at the college experience and all of the benefits of pursuing a college degree at Mizzou.

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Collaboration Education
Supporting the Community While Developing a Pipeline

Supporting the Community While Developing a Pipeline

UMKC Collaboration, Education, Health, Youth Programming

The UMKC School of Dentistry works with a K-12 Charter School to provide oral health services, in place, in the urban core of Kansas City.

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Child Development Community Health

Collaboration Resources

Des Lee Collaborative Vision
Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center
St. Louis Public Radio

Collaboration Services

The Impact of a Global Pandemic on Local Child in Need of Care Cases
Charting the LifeCourse Virtual Showcase 2020
St. Louis Public Radio
Taking Truancy from Punitive to Positive: Developing a Social Support Mobile Application for Wyandotte County Schools

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