COMMUNITY-CAMPUS PARTNERSHIPS FOR HEALTH
https://ccphealth.org/
From the web site: "Established in 1997, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. We view health broadly as physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being and emphasize partnership approaches to health that focus on changing the conditions and environments in which people live, work, study, pray and play."

EDGEWOOD COLLEGE - CABRINI CONNECTIONS 2011 ARTICLE
http://cabriniblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/edgewood-college-experience2011.html
This is one of many articles showing how graduate students and faculty from Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin organized annual summer workshops presented to 7th to 12th grade students at the Cabrini Connections program in Chicago. 

HAMMOND, IN COLLEGE BOUND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
https://collegebound.gohammond.com/?id=2%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0%2C0
Hammond, IN is one of a growing number of cities providing college scholarship incentives to help motivate at-risk kids to stay in school and prepare for jobs/careers in their home state.

HIGHER EDUCATION ANCHOR MISSION INITIATIVE
https://www.cumuonline.org/cumu-initiatives/anchor-mission-initiative/
From the web site: "The purpose of the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative is to help CUMU members more rapidly and effectively advance an anchor mission approach within their institutions, higher education, and the communities they serve.  With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2018, The Democracy Collaborative and CUMU will provide access to facilitated peer learning exchanges, tools and strategies. Institutions participating in the pilot year will help to co-design a set of activities to develop important innovations for the field."

HOPE CHICAGO - PROVIDING COLLEGE FUNDING FOR ALL STUDENTS FROM FIVE CITY  HIGH SCHOOLS
https://hopechicago.org/
From the website: "Hope Chicago is a scholarship-focused non-profit designed to provide students and their parents/guardians with the support they need to graduate from college debt-free."  In 2022 the first 5 high schools were chosen and all students, and some parents, from each of these schools were promised full funding for college at selected Illinois colleges.  The Kalamazoo Promise program was looked at as a model for Hope Chicago. 

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT UIC
https://ipce.uic.edu/
IPCE creates opportunities for scholars, concerned citizens, students, and government to participate in public discourse and educational programs on current policy issues and social trends.

INTELLECTUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: NEW SOCIAL COMPACT
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From the web site:  "Public research universities face enormous challenges in the 21st century: waning fiscal support, a loss of public confidence, and a persistent lack of diversity. Perhaps no challenge is more compelling, however, than the obligation to serve society. The time has come for increased commitment to and removal of barriers preventing collaborative, interdisciplinary, socially relevant research and learning."  Cick the link to read more.  Note: You can now connect with Richard Cherwitz, the author of this article, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/richard.cherwitz

KALAMAZOO PROMISE HELPS KIDS TO COLLEGE – LAUNCHED IN 2007
https://www.kalamazoopromise.com/
The Kalamazoo Promise makes a college scholarship available to every Kalamazoo Public School student. On the web site they write:  "The Kalamazoo Promise has created an unprecedented amount of individuals and organizations that are stepping up to ensure that all students achieve their dreams of success in life after high school through education and learning that lead to good jobs."   Read this 2022 16 year update. https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/six-interesting-impacts-kalamazoo-promise

MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY (MTR) - CREATED EDGAP MAP
https://memphistr.org/about/christian-community-education/
From the web site: MTR's mission is "As a response to the gospel mandate to love our neighbors as ourselves, MTR will partner to provide students in Memphis neighborhoods with the same, or better, quality of education as is available to any student in Memphis by recruiting, training, and supporting effective teachers within a Christian context. Summarized, our mission is "Christian love expressed in equal education."  One of the resources created by MTR is an interactive map showing ACT scores for individual schools in 19 cities, as an overlay to poverty levels."  See the map at http://www.edgap.org/

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES - INSTITUTE FOR YOUTH, FAMILIES AND EDUCATION
https://www.nlc.org/program/institute-for-youth-education-and-families/
From the web site: "The Institute for Youth, Education, and Families is the go-to place for city leaders seeking to improve outcomes for children and families. With expertise in early childhood success, education and expanded learning, promoting a culture of health, Re-engagement of disconnected youth, and family economic success, the YEF Institute reaches cities of all sizes and brings together local leaders to develop strategies via technical assistance projects, peer learning networks, leadership academies, and Mayors’ Institutes."

PITTSBURGH PROMISE - SCHOLARSHIP FOR HS GRADS
https://pittsburghpromise.org/
The Pittsburgh Promise is a community commitment to help students and families of the Pittsburgh Public Schools plan, prepare, and pay for education beyond high school. It includes a pledge to "pay up to $40,000 as a scholarship to pursue higher education."

RAISING STUDENT VOICES: STUDENT ACTION FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
https://community-wealth.org/content/raising-student-voices-student-action-university-community-investment
Editor note: I was introduced to this article by the http://www.community-wealth.org email. Here's how they describe the report:  "This new report from The Democracy Collaborative and the Responsible Endowments Coalition seeks to connect struggling communities to local institutional wealth through engaging student activism. The report profiles three administration-led initiatives and three student-led initiatives, as well as five potential future partnerships, where institutional investments are directed into local communities in a way that empowers low-income residents, develops small businesses, and generates sustainable economic development." 

RESEARCH RELATED TO KALAMAZOO'S PROMISE
https://www.upjohn.org/about/research-initiatives/promise-investing-community/about-kalamazoo-promise
The Upjohn Institute is actively involved in research, evaluation, and community mobilization efforts surrounding Kalamazoo Promise, an unprecedented experiment in economic development that guarantees full college scholarships to potentially every graduate of the Kalamazoo Public School (KPS) district.

UNIVERSITIES AS FORCES FOR SOCIAL GOOD. EDITORIAL
https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/academics-are-intellectual-entrepreneurs
"Let's reflect on how universities are--and can increasingly become--forces for social good." was part of the concluding paragraph of an essay titled? "Academics Are Intellectual Entrepreneurs" by David L. Hildebrand, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences. The editorial was included in the June 2005 issue of Peer Review, a quarterly briefing from the American Association of Colleges and Universities. This piece discusses the role and value of academic community engagement and "how universities are--and can increasingly become--forces for social good." 

UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
https://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/universities/index.html
Beginning in the 1980s, an expanding movement within higher education has been attempting to make universities more relevant and responsive to the communities and states in which they are located.  This web site provides much information on this movement.