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Scholarship of Engagement Award Deadline Approaching

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For our higher education-based members, we wanted to make sure you heard about the 2014 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. The award deadline is next Friday, May 16 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, so don’t delay in sending in your nominations. You can read more about the Lynton Award below or find more info here.

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the 2014 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

The Lynton Award emphasizes engaged scholarly work across the faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship, public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based scholarship, and community engaged scholarship) represents an integrated view of the faculty role in which teaching, research, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member’s expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE conceptualizes scholarly engagement in terms of social justice embedded in democratic ideals.

Award eligibility: Full-time faculty who are pre-tenure at tenure-granting U.S. public and private not-for-profit colleges & universities, or early career (within first six years).

The scholarship of engagement represents an integrated view of the faculty role in which teaching, research, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, and:

  • is tied to a faculty member’s expertise,
  • of benefit to the external community,
  • visible and shared with community stakeholders,
  • effects the mission of the institution.

The award recipient will have several opportunities to disseminate his or her community-based work, including:

  • presenting at the 20th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), “Universities as Anchor Institutions: Driving Change” on October 5-7, 2014, at Syracuse University
  • presenting at the annual Lynton Colloquium on September 15, 2014 at UMASS Boston
  • publishing in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, and
  • participating in one or more webinars on community-based scholarly work

2014 Lynton Award Nominations

  • Nominations can be made by academic colleagues, administrators, students, and community partners. Each nominator should aim to present a comprehensive account of the nominee’s publicly engaged teaching, research, and service. To this end, the application provides for the inclusion of the names and affiliations of additional nominators. Further, endorsements from individuals familiar with one or more aspects of the nominee’s work can be included in the supporting documentation of the application.
  • In cases in which multiple individuals submit a single application for the nomination of a faculty member, one person should be designated as the primary nominator responsible for completing and submitting the application. Additional nominators can be noted in the appropriate section of the application.
  • More than one faculty member from a single college or university may be nominated. Please complete separate applications for each nominee.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application. To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions.

Questions regarding this framework should be addressed to the Lynton Award Coordinator, Dr. Elaine Ward, at Merrimack College’s School of Education and Social Policy by email at lyntonaward@merrimack.edu (subject line: “Lynton Award Help”) or by phone at (978) 837-3572.

Learn more about the Lynton Award

Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government

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We recently heard from NCDD supporting member Archon Fung of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government about an exciting new award for public engagement that we wanted to make sure our members knew about. The award is aimed at helping effective engagement practices grow and develop, and we hope some of you will apply. You can read more about the award below or find more information at www.innovationsaward.harvard.edu. 

APPLY FOR SPECIAL $100,000 AWARD IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

Ash logoHarvard Kennedy School invites you to apply for the Roy and Lila Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government.

Administered by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Innovations in American Government Awards are given to programs that serve as examples of creative and effective government at its best.

This special Innovations Award will recognize government-led innovations that demonstrate novel and effective approaches to increasing public engagement and participation in the governance of towns, cities, states, and the nation. Applications are welcome from citizen engagement and participation programs, policies, and initiatives that encourage or expand public participation and promote collaborative problem-solving in government.

All units of government—federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial—within the United States, along with their partners, are eligible to apply.

The winner of the Roy and Lila Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government will receive a $100,000 grant to support replication and dissemination activities.

Applications and additional information for this special award and for the broader Innovations in American Government Awards are available now on the application website:  www.innovationsaward.harvard.edu.

Applications are due by June 20, 2014, so don’t delay!

The New Civics Grant Initiative

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We recently heard from NCDD supporting member Cynthia Gibson of the Philanthropic Initiative about a grant opportunity from the Spencer Foundation that we think would be an excellent match for people in the NCDD network. The New Civics grant initiative offers two levels of grant funding to apply to projects in civic education and action, as well as a third category for quality measurement research. We encourage you to read more about The New Civics below, or read the Spencer Foundation’s information about it here.

The New Civics initiative is embedded within the broader Foundation belief that cultivating knowledge and new ideas about education will ultimately improve students’ lives and enrich society. The designation “new” refers to an expanded understanding of civic education and its relationship to civic action. Ultimately, we see civic education not simply as a grounding in historical and procedural knowledge of systems of government, but, more broadly, as education, whether in schools or elsewhere, that develops skills, knowledge, and dispositions that lead to informed and reasoned civic action.

With this expanded understanding, we aim to support research that deepens our understanding of educational and other influences on civic action, that attends to social inequalities in civic education and civic action, and that has the potential to shape future research and practice in these fields. And we aim to create occasions for scholars’ learning, inquiry, and exchange – to strengthen the research community and its connections to educational policy and practice.

Funding Opportunities in The New Civics

Measuring the Quality of Civic and Political Engagement ($100,000-$400,000):

  • Those interested in submitting a proposal to create reliable and valid measures of the quality of civic and political engagement among youth ages 15-25 should read the request for proposals - click here.
  • Guidelines for online submission will be available on May 1, 2014. See the RFP for details about the components of preliminary proposals.

Small Grants ($50,000 or less) and Major Grants ($50,000-$350,000)

  • Those interested in submitting a proposal for a research grant to The New Civics should review the request for proposals - click here.
  • Guidelines for a Small Grant proposal to The New Civics - click here.
  • Guidelines for a Major Grant proposal to The New Civics - click here.

(Note: The Major Grant program in The New Civics will be ending in 2014. The last deadline for submitting a preliminary proposal for a Major Grant is April 29, 2014. Submission guidelines can be found using the link above. Large research projects on civic education may be eligible for funding through the Lyle Spencer Research Awards - click here. There are no changes to the Small Grant program.)

The next deadline for Small Grant proposals is 4pm CST, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The following deadlines will be 4pm CST, August 28, 2014 and November 18, 2014. Additional deadlines will be posted as they are scheduled.

You can find more information on The New Civics by visiting www.spencer.org/content.cfm/the_new_civics. Good luck to all the applicants!

CommunityMatters & CIRD Conference Call this Thursday

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CM_logo-200pxWe wanted to make sure NCDD members know that our organizational partners with CommunityMatters are working with the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design to host an application assistance call this Thursday, April 24th from 3-4pm. The call is a follow up to their April 2nd Program Information Webinar on a Request for Proposals from the National Endowment for the Arts and Project for Public Spaces that is still open.

This week’s call will feature thoughts from Cynthia Nikitin of the Project for Public Spaces, and CIRD staff will be available to answer questions about the Request for Proposals and application process. We encourage you all to take advantage of this great opportunity and register now.

You can find more information on the call and the RFP by visiting the CM website. We hope to hear you on the call!

Position Opening with InterFaith Works of CNY

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We recently heard about a position opening with our friends at InterFaith Works of CNY that we wanted to share. IFW is seeking a new Program Director for their Center for Dialogue, and the position sounds like a great fit for some of our NCDD members, so we hope some of you will be interested in learning more about the opening.

IFW describes the position this way:

Creation of the Center for Dialogue: IFW is creating the Ahmad and Elizabeth El-Hindi Center for Dialogue (CfD) to build upon several successful models of dialogue that are currently part of the agency: Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism, Courageous Conversations about Race, Seeds of Peace, Sustained Dialogues for Communities in Conflictual Relationships, InterFaith Dinner Dialogues, Interfaith World Harmony Assembly, and InterFaith Dialogues to Understand Islam. The Center for Dialogue will build the capacity within the organization and within the community to more fully actualize the use of the dialogue-to-action model to address critical issues through cross-cultural dialogues…

Position Summary: The Program Director, under the guidance of the IFW Executive Director, is responsible for the overall operation of the Ahmad and Elizabeth El-Hindi Center for Dialogue.

Qualifications: Individual should have experience in the practice and philosophy of dialogue as a tool for human and community transformation; skills in human service administration and program development and delivery; demonstrated management experience including supervision of staff, budget, finance and fund development; awareness of and interest in the Central New York region; high level of initiative and creativity; proven ability to be an effective manager and leader; ability to handle a variety of tasks and responsibilities simultaneously and effectively; ability to work with diverse groups of people with diplomacy and discretion; ability to assume leadership in planning and programming for all areas of the Center for Dialogue.

You can find more info by visiting InterFaith Works’ website at www.interfaithworkscny.org, or you can find the full job description and application details at www.interfaithworkscny.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Director-Center-for-Dialogue.pdf.

Good luck to all the applicants!

Job Opportunities for Senior and Lead Facilitators/Mediators with Center for Collaborative Policy

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We are pleased to highlight the post below, which came from Susan Sherry of the Center for Collaborative Policy, an NCDD organizational member, via our Submit-to-Blog Form. Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just click here to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog!

The Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University, Sacramento is pleased to announce that is is now recruiting for both a Senior-Level and a Lead-Level Mediator/ Facilitator. Both of these positions call for a professional with demonstrated experience in mediating, facilitating and managing projects involving complex public policy and political issues that engage a diverse range of stakeholders and the public.

For detailed information and to view duties, qualifications and the application process, see www.csus.edu/about/employment. All submissions are done electronically through this University link. Application review will begin on March 7, 2014 and continue until the positions are filled.

If you would like a one-page summary of the job announcement, including the differences between the Senior and Lead positions, please make your request to: frontdesk@ccp.csus.edu

We would be very grateful if you could pass this announcement onto your professional colleagues in the field.

The Center for Collaborative Policy, established in 1992, is a self-supporting unit of the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University, Sacramento. The Center’s mission is to build the capacity of public agencies, stakeholder groups, and the public to use collaborative strategies to improve policy outcomes. With an exceptional track record of success that has been well documented in both academic and public media accounts, the Center works on many of California’s most challenging public policy issues such as governance and fiscal reform, social and health services, natural resources, water, land use, air quality, transportation, and emergency services and homeland security.

The successful candidate will join a team of respected and highly qualified professionals who are committed to advancing the art and science of collaborative public policy making.

For more information, see the Center’s website: www.csus.edu/ccp.

Kettering Research Assistant Positions Now Open

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kfWe want to give a heads up to our NCDD members, especially student and researcher members: It’s the time of the year when our organizational partners at the Kettering Foundation are taking applications for full-time Research Assistants for the next year.  This is a great opportunity that some of you may certainly want to apply for.

Applications are due by March 15, so don’t make sure to get started soon!

Here’s a little snippet of how Kettering describes itself and the position:

Kettering is an operating research foundation that explores practical ways democracy can be strengthened through innovation in public practices. Its research, done in collaboration with people and organizations around the world, emphasizes the roles of citizens and the qualities of their interactions as decision-making actors in public life.

The primary responsibility of research assistants is to provide Kettering staff with reviews of relevant scholarly and professional literature. We seek candidates whose interests complement and will be strengthened by the foundation’s interdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will have strong communication and writing skills, especially the ability to understand and translate technical ideas and language into coherent written reports.

Minimum requirements for the position include a bachelors’ degree. We especially encourage applications from scholars who have interests in topics such as deliberative democracy, civic engagement, social capital, civic education, civil society, and social movements.

To apply, applicants should send an CV, letter of interest, writing sample, and 2-3 letters of recommendation to abd@kettering.org. You can find out more about the openings at Kettering by visiting www.kettering.org/how-we-work/research-positions.

Good luck to all the applicants!

Communications Specialist Opening at Network for Peace through Dialogue

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The job announcement below comes from the Network for Peace through Dialogue, an NCDD Organizational Member, and we are happy to share it. We know many of our members would be a great fit, so make sure to read and share the info about the position below. 

network for peaceThe Network for Peace through Dialogue seeks a Communications Specialist to manage our website, our Let’s Talk program through Google Hangouts, and promote our work widely and interactively through Facebook and Twitter.

Work requirements include working at our upper Manhattan Eastside site 10-15 hrs per week during a regular business day, including the weekly Staff Meeting from 1-3pm on Wednesdays. Rate of pay will depend on the applicant’s background and expertise.

All interested parties may apply by sending cover letter and resume to info@networkforpeace.com.

Good luck to all the applicants!

Conflict Management Opening at KIPCOR

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We were recently made aware of a position opening with the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution that would be a great fit for many of our NCDD members, so we wanted to share it with you. You can find more information about the position below.

The Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR), an institute at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, invites applications for the position of Conflict Management Practitioner and Trainer.  This is a full-time position with benefits.  The starting time for this position will be negotiated with the successful applicant, but will need to be on or before July 1, 2014.

This position has widely varied tasks that will include third-party intervention work in both interpersonal and group/organizational conflict, as well as designing, preparing materials, and leading intensive trainings, workshops and courses.  As in most small non-profit offices, additional tasks related to social media management, scheduling logistics, networking, and miscellaneous office tasks will also be expected.  Specific work areas may be assigned based on the education and skill-set of the person selected for this position.  A master’s degree in a related field or a law degree is required, as is significant specialized training in conflict resolution. The successful applicant must be comfortable working with and advocating for an organization that focuses on peace, social justice, and conflict resolution.

For a full description of this position and the application process, go to www.kipcor.org/Careers/Conflict-Management-Practitioner.php. For more information about KIPCOR go to www.kipcor.org.

Announcing the 2014 Taylor Willingham Fund Award Winner

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We are excited to congratulate Mr. David E. McCracken on winning the 2014 award from the Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund , coordinated by our organizational partners at the National Issues Forums Institute. You can find out more about Taylor, her work in deliberation, and her legacy here. You can read the award announcement below or find the original here.

NIF-logoDavid E. McCracken, of North Carolina, is this year’s recipient of the Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund grant.

McCracken will be working with residents in Haywood County, North Carolina to name and frame local issues and then to conduct four community forums.

Biographic sketch and description of planned deliberative forums work from David E. McCracken:

David E. McCracken is a lifetime military and civil servant with extensive experience in leader development, domestic and international security, and peacekeeping training.  He served 29 years as an active US Army officer, mostly in Special Forces, and 13 years as a Department of Defense civil servant. He has been an independent consultant since 2012, and leads a discussion group, Great Decisions, in western North Carolina. The group encourages individuals to think critically about global issues facing policy makers.

He grew up and worked on a dairy farm during his youth, then graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma. He holds post-graduate certificates from both the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and MIT Seminar XXI, and also served on the faculty of National Defense University.

His decision to request a grant from the Taylor Willingham Legacy Fund (TWLF) emanated from a question raised during his local Great Decisions discussion series last year.  Research into locating a viable information program to better inform citizens on domestic issues resulted in a dearth of available options. TWLF provided the sole source to implement a local forum focused on citizen information.  In light of the opportunities during election year 2014 at the local, state and federal levels, he has been awarded a grant to conduct multiple forums to increase awareness among citizens within Haywood County, North Carolina on topics to be generated by forum participants.  The result will enable citizens to better select representatives at national, state and local levels who align with their individual priorities.  Moreover, he plans to also conduct a youth focused, leader development track that will better educate future voters to stimulate their participation as citizens so that government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ shall prosper.

Click here to learn more about the Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund.