Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant
Up to three CAS faculty will be awardedHealth + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grants to support courses that include new community partnerships in health + humanities.
This funding is intended for work that revises or expands an existing course in collaboration with a partner organization in Portland or the surrounding areas. Support is made possible by theCenter for Community and Global Healthand a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The following questions will help you determine if your community partnership and/or project idea may be eligible for funding:
Does the community partner, or the proposed project, sit at the intersection of health + humanities? We encourage applicants to think boldly and broadly about this definition!
Is the community partner organization local to Oregon or does its work support people locally?
Does this project revise or expand a currentConnect-Portland courseor allow for adding this Connect-PDX designation to an existing course?
If you answered yes to these three questions, your project is a good candidate for funding!
Health + Humanities Community Connections Grant Program Details
The Health + Humanities Community Connections Grants provides $4500 of funding to develop a course-based collaborative project with a community partner. Funds are shared between faculty and the community partner.
Faculty Member receives a $2000 grant.This money may be used to compensate for time and effort involved in creating a collaborative partnership, and for materials, equipment, transportation, or other course expenses.
Community Partner receives a $2500 grant.This money may be used to support the community partner’s participation in the project and to alleviate organizational barriers that hinder participation.
Funding will be awarded to up to three faculty and project proposals will be reviewed and grants awarded on a rolling basis throughout the academic year. TheHealth + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant funds must be distributed by May 2025.
The Health + Humanities Community Connections Grant covers the groundwork necessary to develop a community partnership that can be integrated into one’s Connect-Portland course. Expenses in future academic years are not covered by this grant.
Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant proposals should demonstrate how a new community partner project will:
Develop a community partnership with a project or collaboration at its center.
Benefit the community partner, Lewis & Clark students, and the local community.
Create a sustainable collaboration that will continue beyond the grant period into future offerings of the course.
Deliver a brief overview of the community partner’s contribution to the project.
Conduct an assessment to gather feedback from both L&C students in the course and the community partner.
Submit a short (1-2 page) written report of how the funds were used at the conclusion of the project that incorporates qualitative and quantitative assessment data.
Present the collaboration at a year-end Center for Community and Global Health symposium along with your community partner.
Email Alexis Rehrmann, Community Engagement Coordinator at the Center for Community and Global Health.
Expanding Our Community Collaborations
These new community partnershipswill expand the reach of the Center for Community and Global Health’s Healing + Humanities programming, increase the number of Connect-Portland course offerings at L&C, and create opportunities for deepening community partnerships in the future. Award decisions will be made by the Center team.Read more about the Center’s existing community partnerships here:
Write Around Portland changes lives through the power of writing. Their community-based workshops are tools for individual and societal transformation, self-expression, healing, and dignity. Together, we’re developing writing workshops to foster a sense of belonging in new students to the Lewis & Clark community.
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange brings inmates at the Columbia River Correctional Institution and undergraduates together in courses taught by Lewis & Clark College faculty. Fifteen incarcerated individuals (inside) and fifteen Lewis & Clark undergraduates (outside) study, for example, the history of criminal punishment. With Andrew W. Mellon Foundation support, we are expanding this program through training additional Lewis & Clark faculty to teach these courses. Find out more about the Inside-Out Instructor Training Faculty Grant.
Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative(NWNMC) gathers health care professionals, patients, caregivers, students, academics, and artists in the shared practice of narrative medicine. This emerging field strengthens the ability to recognize, absorb, process, and be moved by stories of illness and health. The work awakens the shared humanity of all people who navigate illness, and practicing narrative medicine in community strengthens us individually.
Roosevelt High School serves a highly diverse student body who lives and learns within a range of social, financial, and emotional stressors, which can make accessing higher education challenging. In June 2022, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies Mitch Reyes developed and implemented an innovative College Prep Program to prepare Roosevelt students for college admissions and success. Read the first year program findings here.
Community and Global Health is located in room 307 and 309 of JR Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus. MSC: 25
