The Bonner Program: Strategic Community Partnerships

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The Bonner ProgramStrategic Community
Partnerships

• Access to Education,

Opportunity to Serve
A program of The Corella Bertram Bonner
Foundation 10 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ
08540 [phone] [phone] fax For
more information, please visit our website at
www.bonner.org
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Strategic Community PartnershipsOverview

• Overview
• Site (or Issue) -Based Teams
• Roles
• Long-Term Strategic Partnerships
• Resources
• Best Practices
• Self-Assessment Evaluation

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Strategic Community PartnershipsCommunity
Partnership Model
Site-Based Team
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Strategic Community PartnershipsType of Work
Expertise
Explore
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Strategic Community PartnershipsSite-Based Team
Team Roles
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Strategic Community PartnershipsSite-Based Team
Campus Staff Roles
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Strategic Community PartnershipsSite-Based
Teams Organization Structure
Campus Center Staff
Community Advisory Board
Faculty, Administrators Other Offices
Site-Based Team Smith Elementary School
Site-Based Team Soup Kitchen
Site-Based Team WaterWatch
Site-Based Team Adult Education
Site-Based Team Homeless Shelter
Site-Based Team Senior Center
Site-Based Team Immigrant Services
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Strategic Community PartnershipsSite-Based
Teams Advantages

• Easier to manage placements, partnership
  trainings
• Clear path for student developmentStructure
  enables deeper partnerships
• Work each year builds on prior year

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Strategic Community PartnershipsLong-Term
Partnerships Elijiahs Promise Example

• Beginning traditional soup kitchen placement
• Later
• community asset mapping project to identify local
  food distributors
• survey of client identified need for bag lunches
• researched model programs
• implemented new bag lunch program
• Current
• examine nutritional value of menu
• hired Bonner grads to work at Elijiahs Promise

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Service PlacementsSelf-Assessment and Evaluation
Partners as Co-Educators Engage community
partners as co-educators community partners are
informed and engaged in providing training,
orientation, guidance, and structured learning
opportunities to students Site-Based Model and
Project Coordinators Utilize a site-based
partnership model, with some sites identified as
longer-term or multi-year have teams at sites
with a (student) project/site coordinator Communi
ty voice and involvement Accessible channels
by which community individuals and/or agencies
can be involved in contributing to, designing,
carrying out, and/or evaluating academic,
research and service-learning activities
representation on institutional boards,
presenting to classes, teaching, and shaping the
research agenda
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Strategic PartnershipsResources

• Bonner Handbook
• Community Partnerships Implementation Guide
• In Good Form samples
• Civic Engagement Training Modules (Site Project
  Coordinator Training, etc.)
• Bonner Web-Based Reporting System (BWBRS)
• Recipes for Change
• Community Fund

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Strategic PartnershipsBest Practices

• Kevin Buechler, Davidson College
• Laura Megivern, Johnson State University

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Strategic Community PartnershipsSite/Issue
Based Teams Summary

• Use resources
• Community Partnerships Implementation Guidefull
  section
• Sample calendarannual timeline
• Other schools examples, i.e., Mars Hill

• Recommendations
• Organize around sites with multiple volunteers or
  issues (i.e., hunger) with a few sites and
  multiple volunteers
• You can have students actively involved in
  transitioning to this model engage them in
  strategic work and goal-setting as teams (TCNJ
  example)

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Strategic Community PartnershipsProject
Coordinators Summary

• Use resources
• Community Partnerships Implementation Guidefull
  section
• Sample Project Coordinator training agenda and
  tips
• Relevant Civic Engagement training modules

• Recommendations
• Consider having a Project/Site Coordinator
  anywhere with greater than 4 volunteers
• Identify at least a few partners with whom you
  are ready to engage in this way
• Review the samples materials and modify
• Formally provide materials and information in
  writing and in person
• Make sure you are implementing your developmental
  model in a way that prepares a cohort of students
  to be Project Coordinators
• Identify some students who may want to take on
  this role and chart out a strategy