Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration
Congratulations to the 2009 Carter Partnership Award recipient: Grand Valley State University and Westown Juliee Housing. Click here to read more about the winning partnership.
Click her to watch a YouTube video about GVSU School of Engineering
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration, organized by Michigan Campus Compact, honors and recognizes exemplary collaborations, undertaken by a college or university in partnership with a community group, which address critical areas of public need. The award recipients receive $10,000 in support of their program to be divided between their community partner and the campus.
The Carter Partnership Award was established in Georgia as a tribute to the lifelong efforts of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to build and strengthen safe, healthy, and caring communities in this country and throughout the world. The Carter Partnership Award Program is part of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation, Inc. which has been formed with the support of President & Mrs. Carter and whose mission is to “mobilize campus community service partnerships by recognizing and rewarding the best practices in service learning and raising their visibility”. For further information please go to http://www.usg.edu/carteraward/.
The purposes of the Carter Partnership Award are to:
- Honor a sustained institutional commitment that has resulted in tangible community impact.
- Provide recognition for outstanding campus-community partnerships in Michigan.
- Increase the number and the effectiveness of campus-community partnerships and promote college/university citizenship.
- Encourage cooperation among education, community, government, and business leaders on critical social and economic issues.
- Increase public awareness of and support for campus-community partnerships.
The award is named for President and Mrs. Carter as a tribute to their lifelong efforts to develop and support safe, healthy, and caring communities throughout the world. In public office and in their daily lives, they have consistently supported public improvement efforts based on cooperation, mutual learning, and shared responsibility.
2009 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for
Campus-Community Collaboration Finalists
Click here to read the media release announcing the finalists.
University of Michigan-Dearborn Residential College Community Theater Collaborative and (3 partners) SOS Community Services, Ozone House and COPE Alternative School. The name of their partnership is: Telling It
- Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel, Telling It Site Coordinator, Residential College Community Theater Collaborative
- Nicole Lowis, Children’s Services Coordinator at SOS Community Services
- Colleen O’Brien, Youth Development Director at Ozone House
- JT Todd, Development Coordinator at COPE Alternative School
HandsOn Battle Creek/Kellogg Community College—Learning through Service Initiative
- Glenda Morling, Social Science Instructor at Kellogg Community College
- Megan Russell, Youth Program Coordinator at HandsOn Battle Creek
Westown Jubilee Housing--Grand Valley State University School of Engineering Partnership
- Dr. Shirley Fleischmann, Profesor of Engineering at GVSU
- Rev Richard TerMaat, Executive Director at Westown Jubilee Housing
Carter Partnership Award Information
Carter Partnership Award Overview
2009 Carter Parthership Award Sponsors
General Sponsorship Opportunities
College/University Sponsorship Opportunities
The Carters
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation
| Questions about the award can be directed to: Shelley Long 517.492.2432 slong@micampuscompact.org |
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Past Carter Partnership Award Information
2008 Carter Partnership Award Winner- Press Release
Award Criteria
2007 Carter Partnership Award Sponsors
2008 Carter Partnership Award Sponsors
Letter from Founder & President
Inaugural Year--2005