AAP Engagement Impact Grants

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AAP Engagement
Impact Grants

With support from Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, AAP is advancing our collective mission to imagine and build a better world by expanding opportunities and activities around engaged teaching, learning, research, and creative work.

Over the next three years, the college will offer Engagement Impact Grant opportunities to students and faculty seeking to further develop and deepen our shared understanding of what engagement as a common practice means within, across, and for our disciplines.

Engaged learning is a means not only for addressing global challenges such as climate change and pervasive inequities, or leveraging existing knowledge and resources — but also of creating new knowledge and ways of thinking, making, and doing that drive transformation in cities and communities. Grant funding will be available to all AAP faculty and students (located in Ithaca, NYC, or Rome) in three areas: research and creative work, convenings, and curricular innovation.

Grants

Research + Creative Work

The research and creative work grant is open to faculty and students whose work reflects innovative critical thought and community-engaged collaborations that create symbiotic relationships and promote positive problem-solving for communities and cities.

Amount:
Faculty – Up to $7,500
Students – Up to $3,500

Due: March 7, 2025

Eligibility: Open to all AAP faculty and students.

Application will open on January 15, 2025.
Convenings

The convenings grant is for faculty to bring together community and external partners to share practices and learnings that have evolved over the course of their collaborations. The grant is meant to provide partial funding for community partner participation that would include community-engaged symposia, lectures, and other platforms.

Amount: Up to $2,500

Due: March 7, 2025

Eligibility: Open to all AAP faculty.

Application will open on January 15, 2025.
Curricular Innovation

The curricular innovation grant supports faculty and academic leadership in developing and implementing engaged, innovative curricular initiatives that will become sustainable over time. We encourage cross-departmental, cross-disciplinary collaboration. We will be accepting applications this coming November.

Award: This will vary according to proposals.

Due: March 7, 2025

Eligibility: Open to department chairs and faculty.

Application will open on January 15, 2025.

Partners in Engagement

The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has awarded AAP three years of funding to support engaged learning, research, and creative work across our disciplines. The phased three-year plan includes activities such as developing a shared understanding of what community engagement means in and across the architecture, art, planning, real estate, and design tech departments; documenting a baseline of community-engaged curricular and cocurricular opportunities, as well as developing a system for data gathering and evaluation going forward; and expanding and deepening these efforts while supporting the development of new engagement opportunities.

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