AAP Engagement
Impact Grants

With support from Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, AAP is furthering our collective commitment to imagine and build a better world for all by expanding opportunities to advance rigorous community-engaged instruction, research and creative work, and theory across our disciplines.

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 for 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.

AAP defines community as a wide range of partners (nonprofit, civic, public sector, entrepreneurial, and corporate) whose work aligns with the college’s commitment to equity, dialogue, and socially responsive production. This includes grassroots groups as well as industry and technology firms when collaborations support shared educational, research, or public-service goals. Engagement is defined as a rigorous, transparent, and sustained partnership with these communities, grounded in mutual benefit, accountability, measurable impact, and ethical, inclusive practice.