Become a Roger Williams University Community Partner - March 30, 2015

Spring 2015 Call for Projects
 
As a nonprofit organization or community in Rhode Island and Southeastern MA, the Community Partnerships Center at Roger Williams University (CPC) invites you to become a Community Partner by submitting an application to its Spring 2015 Call for Projects.

The CPC’s mission is to undertake collaborative projects that will benefit the local community while at the same time providing RWU students with real-world experience in an environment where they can work together with faculty, field-specific experts, community leaders, and local citizens.
 
What kind of projects might be a potential partnership between your organization and the CPC? It all starts with what project-based assistance your organization needs to benefit your local community. We ask you and your organization to submit a project application that engages the community, provides teams with opportunities to apply their learning and expertise, and creates beneficial final products as we begin to plan for upcoming semesters. Projects are completed on a predetermined timeline, typically within an academic semester; further guidelines are outlined on our website.
 
Successful CPC projects draw on coursework and directed study, faculty skills, and student resources to enhance project work and complete deliverables for each participating Community Partner. Engaging the full spectrum of RWU’s academic programs, previous projects have produced deliverables such as:

• Marketing Plans
• Graphic Design
• Market Research
• Business Plans
• Historical Research
• Architectural Design
• Historical Rehabilitation
• Engineering Plans
• Exhibition Design
• Curriculum Development
• Survey and Policy Analysis
• Website Design

Submit an application to the Spring 2015 Call for Projects and become an RWU CPC Community Partner.
 
RWU Faculty also propose potential project ideas based on their research and teaching interests and needs. Explore the current Spring 2015 faculty proposals for potential collaborations, which are listed below and on the CPC Project Applications website.

• Public health and applied math projects
• Advertising and marketing campaign projects
• Urban, waterfront, housing, community, or public space architectural design
• Community-based or small-scale designing and building of architectural structures such as a food cart or shed for a local community garden or farmer’s market

Should you have questions or if you would like to discuss application preparation, please contact Nicole Foti, Project Coordinator, by e-mail (nfoti@rwu.edu) or phone (401-254-5211).