Brown University Swearer Center's College & University Engagement Initiative

The Swearer Center’s College & University Engagement Initiative (CUEI) contributes to the fields of community engagement and social innovation through collaboration with students, faculty, community partners, institutions of higher education, and networks for community engagement and social innovation.

CUEI's Goals

(CUEI), housed at Brown University's Swearer Center provides direction, a public narrative, common frameworks, colloborative efforts, best practices and processes on community engagement work

Cultivating and curating public narrative about the work of community engagement and social innovation.
Working toward common frameworks of understanding across networks, organizations, scholars and practitioners in community engagement and social innovation.
Facilitating and participating in collaborative efforts across community engagement constituencies.
Identifying and sharing best practices in community engagement and social innovation.
Creating participatory processes for shared co-creation across the fields of community engagement and social innovation.

Carnegie Community Engagement Classification

The application is now online and hosted on GivePulse. This will help further streamline, advance and scale the work this framework can provide to institutions

Accessible
The online framework allows applicants to save drafts, submit and capture their community engagement activity over time. To learn more you can read more here
Assessment
Leveraging the GivePulse Assessment platform, the application and framework uses skip-logic and matrices to provide a streamlined experience. This will also be a space to apply and submit your community engagement activities and stories for the reviewers to review, and the team to assist you.
Support
For questions about the content and process of the application, please feel free to reach out to the the Swearer Center research and assessment team via the contact button in the online workflow or at carnegie@brown.edu, with technical questions, go within GivePulse carnegie@givepulse.com (requires GivePulse account).

Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

The Lynton Award emphasizes community-engaged scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research/creative activity and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member's academic expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders and reflects the mission of the institution.

Online
Applications for the Lynton award are also hosted on GivePulse. The applications are used as a framework for faculty to review, assess and advance their community engagement work.
Assessment
For more information about eligibility and application instructions, visit the Swearer Center’s CUEI Website
Deadline
The deadline for the 2018 Lynton award nominations is June 1, 2018.

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At Walmart, engaging in our local communities is an important part of our culture. Working with GivePulse and its partner, Network for Good, WalmartGivesNWA will take place from June 8th to August 23rd. During this time, Walmart will match charitable contributions for eligible donations and volunteer hours serving eligible Northwest Arkansas nonprofits, subject to the below guidelines.

	VOLUNTEERISM: Walmart will make a grant through GivePulse matching eligible volunteer hours by community members or associates equal to $10 in honor of each volunteer hour, up to a maximum total volunteer matching amount of $1,000,000. Details on eligibility of volunteer hours are below.

	ASSOCIATE DONATION: Walmart will match completed eligible donations made by associates through GivePulse on a 2:1 basis during the WalmartGivesNWA timeframe, up to a maximum total donation matching amount of $1,000,000. Details on eligibility of matching donations are below.

Learn more at WalmartGivesNWA Support Portal

El Paso Volunteer Guidelines At Walmart, engaging in our local communities is an important part of our culture. Working with GivePulse and its partner, Network for Good, we aim to enable community members and associates to connect with causes they care about and to promote community cohesion in El Paso. We will make charitable contributions for eligible volunteer hours serving eligible El Paso nonprofits, subject to the below guidelines from November 14th through December 31st, 2019.

	VOLUNTEERISM: Walmart will make a grant through GivePulse matching eligible volunteer hours by associates equal to $10/volunteer hour and equal to $5/volunteer hour for community members. Details on eligibility of volunteer hours are below.
The total volunteer matching maximum is $500,000. Walmart will not make additional matching grants for volunteer hours once the matching maximum has been reached. Period and Deadlines Volunteers may request a match in the Givepulse system starting on November 14th through December 31st at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time). Nonprofit organizations will have until January 10th at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time) to complete the matching grant verification process. Matching grant verifications that are not completed by the nonprofit by January 10th at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time) will not be eligible to receive a matching grant.

Brown University Swearer Center's College & University Engagement Initiative

CUEI's Goals

Carnegie Community Engagement Classification

Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

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