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also available for download as a PDF, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/PM2007.html
National Request for Proposals to Serve as
CCPH's Organizational Home
Letters of Intent Due June 8
Over the past ten years, CCPH has
positioned itself as a leading source of inspiration, information,
professional development and advocacy for promoting health through
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
We have mobilized a learning community among our members and significantly
advanced service-learning and community-based participatory research.
As we enter our second decade of leadership in the field, we are
seeking an organizational home to be a partner with us in building
on our strengths to achieve our mission in forward-thinking and
innovative ways.
As many of you know, the founding executive director of CCPH recently
announced her decision to step down from her position with CCPH at
the end of 2007. This decision, coinciding with a celebration
of the organization's 10 year anniversary, presents us with an
opportunity to articulate the qualities and characteristics not
only of the next executive director, but also of the organizational
structure that would best support CCPH
in the future. After considering our options, we have concluded
that issuing this national Request for Proposals (RFP) for CCPH‘s organizational home
is the ideal way for us to capitalize on this opportunity.
Letters of intent from interested non-profit organizations and
institutions in the United States
that can meet the expectations described in this RFP are eligible
to apply. These include but are not limited to academic
medical centers, community colleges, community-based organizations,
community-campus partnerships, health professional schools, hospitals,
health systems, national non-profit organizations, state-wide
non-profit organizations and universities. The
receipt deadline for letters of intent is 5 pm PST on June 8,
2007.
As CCPH‘s
governing body, we have the responsibility and privilege of holding
the legal and fiduciary authority and accountability for CCPH, an independent 501(c)3
non-profit organization. The RFP lays out our strategic
goals, describes the assets we bring to the proposed partnership,
specifies the characteristics we are seeking in an organizational
home and provides details on the RFP process. The RFP is available
under the “What’s New” column on the CCPH home page at http://www.ccph.info.
Please send any questions you
may have about the RFP to ccphrfp@u.washington.edu.
Anonymous questions and their corresponding answers will be posted
on the CCPH website
at www.ccph.info.
Sincerely,
The CCPH Board of Directors
College Students Lead
the U.S.
towards a Greener Future - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
P3 Awards Winners
Students from Western Washington
University drove from
Washington State
to Washington,
D.C., in a car entirely
powered by compressed natural gas fuel made from recovered landfill
methane. Northwestern students built a solar powered system that
provides electricity to a rural town in Panama, miles away from any electric
power grid. The
University
of Virginia team designed and built a
floating "learning barge," that teaches about cleaning
up and restoring plant to a river area by doing it! These were
just a few of the winning projects at EPA's People, Prosperity
and the Planet (P3) awards ceremony last night.
This national competition, sponsored by EPA's Office of Research
and Development, enables college students create sustainable solutions
to environmental problems through technology innovation. These
sustainable solutions must be environmentally friendly, efficiently
use natural resources and be economically competitive. Each P3
award includes funding up to $75,000 that gives the students an
opportunity to further develop their designs and move them to
the marketplace.
Winners of this year's awards and their projects are:
- Appalachian State University,
Boone, N.C., The Affordable Bioshelters Project:
Testing Technologies for Affordable Bioshelters
- Lehigh University,
Bethlehem,
Pa., Containment of Highly Concentrated
Arsenic-laden Spent Regenerant on the Indian Subcontinent
- Northwestern University,
Evanston, Ill.,
Solar Photovoltaic System Design for a Remote Community in Panama
- University of Illinois
at Urbana, Champaign, Ill.,
An Innovative System for Bioremediation of Agricultural Chemicals
for Environmental Sustainability
- University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.,
The Learning Barge: Environmental + Cultural Ecologies on the
Elizabeth River
- Western Washington
University, Bellingham, Wash.,
Bio-Methane for Transportation
The P3 Award competition was
held at EPA's 3rd National Sustainable Design Expo on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C.,
on April 24 and 25. The Expo showcases innovative, cutting-edge
technologies designed by the P3 teams along with sustainable policies
and technologies developed and implemented by government and state
agencies and nonprofit organizations. Support for the competition
includes more than 40 partners in the federal government, industry
and scientific and professional societies.
More information about the P3 Award competition: http://www.epa.gov/p3
P3 award winners and their projects: http://www.epa.gov/p3/07winners
EPA's sustainability research program: http://www.epa.gov/sustainability
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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Sarena Seifer
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You may be familiar with the investments in community-based participatory research (CBPR)
that the National Center for Minority Health Disparities (NCMHD) at the National Institutes of
Health has made to date. First launched in FY 2005, the goals of the NCMHD CBPR program
are to promote research collaborations between academic researchers and community partners
and to support community intervention research studies using community-based participatory
research principles and methods to reduce and eliminate health disparities in major diseases
affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.
The program has three phases, beginning with a three-year
research planning grant, followed
by a competitive five-year intervention research grant, and concluding
with a competitive
three-year dissemination phase. Now in the research planning phase, academic researchers
and their community partners are engaged in several key activities: developing partnerships,
assessing community needs, identifying diseases and conditions for intervention research, planning intervention
methodologies, and conducting pilot intervention research studies in the following areas: diabetes, obesity,
cardiovascular diseases, substance abuse and mental health, cancer, HIV/AIDS, childhood dental caries, child
health improvement and social determinants leading to health disparities. In FY 2008, the program will enter the
intervention study phase. For more information, visit these websites: http://ncmhd.nih.gov/SawardsM.html and
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MD-07-001.html
We're delighted to report that in its fiscal year 2008 budget request, NCMHD includes funds to start a new Community
Health Policy initiative that will support research-training grants aimed at increasing the capacity of COMMUNITIES to
conduct community-based participatory research and apply the principles of research to translate research findings
into policies to eliminate health disparities. This investment is consistent with what CCPH advocated in its
October 2006 testimony before the NIH Council of Public Representatives.
Other new programs in NCMHD's FY08 budget request include:
§ A new Science Education program, which will seek to improve awareness and understanding of minority
health and health disparities and establish a pipeline of students from grades K through 12 with an interest in
pursuing a career in science.
§ A New Men's Health Disparities Initiative to address issues surrounding why men experience poorer physical
and psychological health than women across a wide range of health indicators and why African-American men are at
higher health risks than other men.
Read the NCMHD's complete fiscal year 2008 budget request at:
http://ncmhd.nih.gov/NCMHD%20FY08%20PB%20CJ.pdf
To
stay on top of the latest CBPR news, funding opportunities, conferences
and other resources, subscribe to the free CBPR
listserv co-sponsored by CCPH and the Wellesley Institute at http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr
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