Archives: Chelsea Nash

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

So You Want to Apply for a SSHRC Partnership Grant…The Challenges and Benefits to Having Many Partners

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant There are many things to consider in advance of preparing and submitting your application for a SSHRC Partnership Grant. This month, CFICE has taken a look back at its own SSHRC application process and we have attempted to share some of the lessons we’ve learned along the... More

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

So you want to apply for a SSHRC partnership grant… How can you respectfully involve your community partners?

By Chelsea Nash, Communications Research Assistant Being 'community first' means engaging and involving community partners at all stages of the partnership, even the application process. When the CFICE team was putting together its SSHRC application several years ago, the application process presented one of the first opportunities to put the... More

Monday, August 27, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Project Manager’s Perspective

While a lot of good work can come out of community-campus partnerships, there can be many challenges encountered along the way. Some of the most difficult ones to navigate can centre around funding. Nicole Bedford, Project Manager and Communications Coordinator of the CFICE project, talks to us about some of the challenges CFICE has... More

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The SSHRC Partnership Grant: Is it the right grant to support your partnership with Canadian academics?

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Grant applications can be long and arduous processes, and can swallow a lot of your capacity and time, which is why it’s important to make sure the grant will suit your needs. Before applying for a grant like the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Partnership... More

Monday, August 13, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Student Perspective

What is it like to receive funding to participate in community-campus engagement work? Magda Goemans and Anna Przednowek, two long-time CFICE research assistants, talk to CFICE about how continuous Community-Campus Engagement funding has impacted their experiences. Both speak to how continuous funding allowed them to immerse themselves in the... More

Monday, August 6, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Community Perspective

What's the difference for a community organization between receiving community project funding versus community-campus engagement project funding? What makes community-campus engagements challenging with respect to funding? What opportunities does community-campus engagement funding provide to community organizations? In this podcast, we sit down... More

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Flipping the Funding Model to Empower Communities

In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Lee Rose is a curious social innovator with an knack for working across systems to drive change. He led the creation and development... More

Thursday, July 26, 2018

The Important Role of Project Administrators in CCE

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Working with an institution as large as a university can be a daunting, challenging task filled with moving parts and bureaucratic hoops to jump through. For a community organization, tackling the challenges that come with a partnership with a post-secondary institution can be... More

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Expectations and timelines when working with a post-secondary institution

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Post-secondary institutions have specific timelines, long processes for things like ethics approval or grant applications, and generally speaking, a complex power structure that can involve some firm top-down governance. These factors can easily complicate a campus-community partnership,... More

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Ontario Government Work-Integrated Learning Mandate: What does this mean for Faculty, Community, and Students?

By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Co-op placements and internships, some unpaid, have long been the only way for many university students to put what they’re learning in classrooms into practice. These opportunities provide students with the chance to do a sort of taste-test of their chosen career path before graduation.... More

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

CCEC Roundtables: Creating a Community of Practice

By Chelsea Nash, Communications Research Assistant As the CFICE project approaches 2019—the end of the project—the Community-Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) team has been working hard to keep an eye on the future and explore how best to advance community-campus engagement (CCE) across the country. Eight regional roundtables hosted by CCEC this... More

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Key Ingredients of ‘Community First’ CCE: Shared Aspirations, Values and Goals

In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. This month, CFICE was happy to speak with Isabelle Kim, the Director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Community... More

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