Engaged Opportunity Grants
2019-20 Engaged Opportunity Grant Recipients
Cornell faculty and staff are always thinking of ways to create, enhance or sustain community-engaged learning opportunities for undergraduates, but they might not have the funds to support their ideas. Engaged Opportunity Grants are designed to help by supporting big and small projects from across the university.
- Adaptive Climbing at Lindseth Climbing Center
Making indoor rock climbing accessible to people with physical and mental disabilities - Aguaclara Colombia
Partnering with WARP S.A. to bring clean, safe drinking water to rural communities in Colombia - Archaeology and Tourism in Robert H. Treman State Park
Documenting and sharing community-engaged research on the 19th century hamlet of Enfield Falls - Cartographies of Memory
Reconstructing sites of memory and resistance during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in suburban Argentina - A Community Conversation with Monica White
Bringing the author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement to Ithaca - Community-led Linguistic Work with the Ch’ol Language
Strengthening language-preservation efforts by fostering international exchanges between scholars - Coordination, Governance and Management in Public Health Community Coalitions
Supporting coordination efforts that are vital to community coalitions working in public health - Cornell Buffalo Co-Lab Visiting Activist Scholar
Supporting a course and presentation that unpack causes, impacts and solutions to assist communities in need - Cornell Future Food Summit
Fostering a multidisciplinary approach to drive impactful solutions for the future of food and agriculture - Demystifying Artifacts
Sharing cultural practices of international transfer students at Roosevelt Island Middle School - Engaging Food Systems in Amsterdam, New York
Supporting a local food economy that is culturally specific to the community and accessible by all - Finger Lakes Water Resources, Campus-Community Research and Adaptation
A radio series exploring the Finger Lakes region’s changing relationships with water - Food is Building/Building is Food
Researching regenerative landscapes and housing with urban-dwelling black, indigenous and families of color - Grow-NY Competition and Summit Impact Expansion
Supporting student participation in the inaugural Grow-NY summit in Rochester - A Head Start in STEM Learning
Advancing knowledge about how best to support underserved Head Start caregivers and children in early science learning - Implementing REDD+ in Peru
Designing and implementing a survey for community groups impacted by the UN climate change mitigation program - Indigenous Rights and Relations: From Ecuador to Central New York
A Central New York speaking tour featuring leaders of the Sarayaku people of Ecuador - Launching a Medical French Course
Preparing students for community-engaged learning projects in Francophone communities, both local and abroad - Learning by Leading
Growing the next generation of environmental leaders through a student leadership development program at Cornell Botanic Gardens - Mobile Mindfulness and Meditation
Launching a mobile meditation unit that serves Ithaca and outlying rural communities - New York State Grapevine Health Initiative
Optimizing vineyard health for successful and sustainable production - Partners 4 Progress
Building capacity to advocate for individuals with disabilities and lead system change at the local level - Prisoner Express Archive
Collecting and preserving the creative output of 4,000+ incarcerated individuals throughout the country - Program for Individualized Mentorship Education Solutions (PrIMES)
Supporting a targeted mentorship program that’s closing the medical education diversity gap - Roosevelt Island Community Roundtable
Planning a Vision Summit to create a more environmentally sustainable Roosevelt Island - Service Partnership with Prisoner Express
Building community among first-year students through collaboration, service and critical reflection about social change - Sunrise Acres Senior Housing at Akwesasne
Environmentally and culturally responsive landscape architectural design for Indigenous community housing - Tompkins County Oral History Undergraduate Fellowship
Introducing students to the theory, methods, ethics and challenges of conducting oral history interviews - Toxic Inequality: Understanding Environmental Justice in America
Investigating the root causes of environmental injustice by examining history, policy and the environment - Unconscious Bias and Civil Discourse Training for LEAD New York
Equipping food, agriculture and natural resource professionals with skills to be exemplary and effective leaders - Youth Entrepreneurship Summer 2020 Program
Providing local high school students a fun, experiential opportunity to explore entrepreneurship
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.