The Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. Collaborative Community-Based Research Mini-Grant

The Center offers three Mini-Grants in the amount of $7,000 each to support joint faculty-student-community research partnerships* addressing a social challenge articulated by a community organization. These may support the planning and development of new projects, the expansion of existing ones, the assessment of projects, or the dissemination of findings from projects that are ongoing or in final stages. 

Proposals must be submitted by Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

The purposes of the grants are to foster faculty-student-community partnerships that: 

• Result in measurable, positive impact in the South Bend area;

• Reflect the investment of faculty expertise in the local community; and

• Offer students community-based learning opportunities that promote civic responsibility.

When the grant recipient is announced, the partnership will receive up to $6,000 to cover costs associated with the project, to be kept in the faculty partner's account. The remaining $1,000 will be similarly awarded within three years of the first part of the grant disbursement if the partnership can show: (1) evidence of the positive impact the partnership has had locally, and (2) a refereed publication, or other work considered of high merit in the faculty member’s field, or a presentation at a national or regional conference.

Ganey Proposal Guidelines

To learn more about past winners click on the links below:

2009 Mini-Grant winners

• Personalized Information Technology Interventions and Their Roles in Teen Obesity Management
• Building Leaders, Framing Injustice: Religious Networks, Grassroots Organizing, and Latino Integration
• Reaching Out to Urban Adolescents through Sports: A Collaboration with the South Bend Police Department

2008 Mini-Grant winners

• From Punishment to Prevention and Restoration: Redirecting Resources toward a Comprehensive Community Response to Crime and Violence
• Improving the Home Environment: Giving Children a Head Start
• Reducing School Switching to Increase Student Achievement

2007 Mini-Grant winners

• Environmental Health in Local Poor and Minority Neighborhoods
• Estimating the Economic Impact of Undocumented Workers and Their Families in the South Bend Area
• Preventing Childhood Obesity: Examining Access to Healthy Foods on the West Side of South Bend
• Foreclosed and Abandoned Homes in South Bend: A Search for Causes and Solutions

2006 Mini-Grant winners

• Get the Lead Out: Preventing Poisoning in America’s Youth
• Economic Development in St. Joseph County: Improving our Quality of Life
• Student Engineers Reaching Out: Applied Engineering in the Service of South Bend Citizens with Disabilities

2005 Mini-Grant winners

• Culture Barriers and African-American Women in South Bend: Improving Breast Care Screening
• Addressing the Challenges of Refugee Resettlement: Analyzing and Improving Employment Outcomes
• At the Intersection: Arts Education, Cultural Policy, Community Development and Capacity Building

2004 Mini-Grant winners

• Avanti: A Post-Industrial Ghost Story
• Writing UP