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UMass Boston faculty, staff, and students are engaged in hundreds of campus-community partnerships that serve communities throughout Massachusetts and beyond. The following are examples to illustrate how the university is partnering with communities through teaching and learning, research, and service to address a wide-range of issues.

Attention all UMass Boston faculty and staff: Do you have community-based partnership that is supporting your teaching and learning, research, and/or service? Click here to submit your partnership information or visit the surveys link on the left side of this page in order to preview the survey questions.

Adult Literacy Resource Institute
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute serves as the Greater Boston Regional Support Center for SABES, the state’s System for Adult Basic Education Support. We provide a variety of staff and program development services to adult basic education programs in the Boston area, especially the approximately 40 programs in the region that are funded by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and that offer ESOL, basic literacy and numeracy, GED preparation, and other classes. Read more »
Boston Public Library Consortium's Strategic Priority Committee
Janet Stewart serves as a co-chair of the Strategic Priority Committee on Resource Sharing of the Boston Library Consortium. This group is exploring the future of access to library reserves through interlibrary loans as the developing e-book environment continues to grow. Read more »
Center for Social Policy
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) has commissioned the Center for Social Policy to conduct a literature review and develop an evaluation plan for its Adult and Community Learning Services' Adult Basic Education (ABE) program. The team has produced three deliverables: a Gaps Analysis Report, a Comprehensive Brief, and an Outline of an Evaluation Plan of ESE’s State Adult Basic Education System (SABES) Program. Read more »
Veterans Upward Bound
The Veterans Upward Bound Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston provides a unique opportunity for men and women veterans of all ages to gain access to information about college and career awareness, acquire the academic skills required for entry into higher education and/or to acquire the equivalent of a high school diploma. Services are offered continuously with various workshops, self-paced computer tutorials, individualized tutoring and classroom-based instruction. Read more »

Business/Organizational/Financial Management

Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council
The purpose of Boston Harbor Islands national park area is: to preserve and protect a drumlin island system within Boston Harbor, along with associated natural, cultural, and historic resources; to tell the islands' individual stories and to enhance public understanding and appreciation of the island system as a whole; and to provide public access to the islands and surrounding waters for the education, enjoyment, and scientific research of this and future generations. Read more »
Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
The Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management is involved in several partnerships that involve several topics, such as charter reform, municipal reform ideas, a conference for mayors, federal stimulus municipal grant coordination, the MassGOALS Project, the Metro Boston Homeland Security Center of Excellence, and a report to President Barack Obama's administration. Read more »
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network's Boston Regional Office and Minority Business Center
The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network's Boston Regional Office and Minority Business Center provides free business advisory services and free workshops to Massachusetts businesses to help achieve these goals. Services include, but are not limited to: 1) business growth and success, 2) financing and loan assistance, and 3) strategic, marketing, and operational analysis. Read more »
Predictive Policing: Boston Police Department
Reliably predicting the location, time, and likelihood of future criminal activity in Boston: Working with the Boston Police Department, this work intends to explore a methodology for reliably predicting the location, time, and/or likelihood of future criminal activity. The work will allow BPD to deploy police resources in the areas where they can most effectively reduce the incidence. Read more »
Strategic Planning with Quincy Asian Resources
UMass Boston is assisting Quincy Asian Resources in its strategic planning process. Read more »

Community/Economic/Workforce Development

AmplifyMe
Profeesor Marilyn Fankenstein assists with teaching media literacy and quantitative reasoning for Amplifyme, a nonprofit organization that engages people in positive change through the use of media arts. They use pop culture to inspire people to think differently about their power to create change in their lives and the lives of others through civic engagement Read more »
Brazilian Immigrant Center Partnership
Professor Tim Sieber uses his expertise in urban and applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonian, and immigrant and minority education in his work as a board member with the Brazilian Immigrant Center. Read more »
Center for Collaborative Leadership - Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)
The program stresses collaboration and fosters leadership that is visionary, goal-oriented, and inclusive. Each summer, a new group of “Fellows” is chosen. Diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, and gender, and with five to ten years of experience, these Fellows have already demonstrated leadership potential through work in corporations, non-profits, and governmental organizations. Read more »
Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) cultivates alliances with local, national, and international agencies, government and academic institutions, NGOs, and for-profit and not-for-profit bodies which share common interests in the area of post-disaster reconstruction globally. Read more »
Center for Social Policy
Center for Social Policy (CSP) provides expertise on policies and practices that reduce social and economic inequities. CSP engages in a critical analysis of the structural causes for low wages, barriers to housing affordability, the unequal distribution of resources and their impacts on families, communities and society as a whole. Our inclusive, people-centered research methodologies generate solid evidence for reshaping policies that effectively address the root causes of poverty. Read more »
China Program Center
The center serves as an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs, political leaders, and academics by providing them with the specific tools needed to build successful American-Chinese joint ventures. It brings extensive business and cultural knowledge about the two countries to its audiences through innovative academic courses, training sessions, internships, workshops, and mentorships. Read more »
Commonwealth Compact
Commonwealth Compact works to establish Massachusetts as a uniquely inclusive, honest and supportive community of -- and for -- diverse people. It does this by helping the state acknowledge our mixed history in this effort, and to face squarely the challenges that still need to be overcome, understanding that the rich promise of the region's growing diversity must be tapped fully if Boston and Massachusetts are to achieve their economic, civic, and social potential. Read more »
Community Partnership Job Shadow Day
Job Shadow Day allows students to visit a worksite and "shadow" an employee for several hours. This experience provides students with a preview of the world of work and the range of career opportunities available to them. UMass Boston has had an ongoing relationship with Brockton Area Private Industry Council for several years and have hosted several students for both shadow days and summer-long internships. Read more »
CommUniversity
CommUniversity is a partnership with Freedom House to pilot of project to eventually own a community house, where students will live and study--both in the community and on campus--and engage various community agencies to assist them in realizing with their community agendas. Read more »
Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects & Programs
Through our Department of Special Programs and Projects, the Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects and Programs is in the forefront of providing athletics outreach to local neighborhoods, the state, and even overseas audiences. We provide complimentary use of the university's athletic facilities to community groups; we offer student athlete sports clinics for young people; we make holiday visits to hospitals; and offer many other similar services. Read more »
Department of Information Technology at UMass Boston
YearUp is a national program, that aims to educate and train “disconnected” young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 to enter the workforce with skills in desktop support, help desk and other technical areas where the demand for skilled labor is always high. The Director and Manager for Client Services act as Mentors to the student from YearUp. This student in turn shadows the mentor and attends staff meetings and engages in all activities of the department. Read more »
Geographic Information Systems Facilitate Youth Workers and Community Stakeholder Efforts
A large population of under served students and residents in the City of Boston suffer from behavioral and/or discipline problems, as well as substance and/or alcohol abuse. A side effect of this behavior is the increasing instance of trash The South Boston Youth Action Center is tackling this problem by making the community aware of the locations and probable sources of this problem. Read more »
Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center
The Pension Action Center strives to improve retirees’ and workers’ standard of living in retirement through individual case advocacy; referrals to appropriate programs and professionals; and issue analysis and reform of public policy. Read more »
Green Harbors Project - Waquoit Bay
A community-based participatory research (CBPR) project that involved listening to the needs of the various religious communities in the Upper Cape area (conversations, interviews, surveys, and as a participant observer at events and service) around the issues of coasts, climate change, and community stewardship. The project then implementing selected programs and events as suggested, including energy events and environmental education. Read more »
Health Careers Opportunity Program
The mission of the program is to create a “pipeline” that starts at the middle and high schools in Boston, continues through the undergraduate programs at Tufts University and UMass Boston, and culminates in the graduate-level public health and/or medical programs at Tufts University School of Medicine or other medical schools. Read more »
Institute for Asian American Studies
The institute has two partnerships, including a study of second generation Asian Americans and Latino adults in the Boston area who grew up in families engaged in business enterprises. The purpose is to examine the influence of an immigrant entrepreneurial experience on the children's educational performances, career and life choices. Read more »
Institute for Community Inclusion
ICI offers training, clinical, and employment services, conducts research, and provides assistance to organizations to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in school, work, and community activities. Read more »
MGT470 - Social Innovations
Dr. Benyamin B. Lichtenstein’s from the College of Management is currently engaging management and marketing students in a social innovations project with various public and private organizations throughout the Boston area. Students are co-creating and recommending innovative strategies and ideas for these organizations to meet a variety of social needs within the communities they serve. Read more »
Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Beacon Voyages for Service
Beacon Voyages for Service is a program that gives students the opportunity to take part in service trips all over the country and the world. Students also have the opportunity to be a student trip leader. All of the trips take place during school breaks. Read more »
PAF-G 691 - Capstone/Case Study Seminar in Public Policy
The project may be a case study of a public policy or significant piece of legislation which involved tracing its history, analyzing the political, economic, and social context in which it developed, identifying and examining roles played by those who were instrumental in its development, and assessing its intended and actual impact. Read more »
PPOL-G 780 Practicum in Public Policy and PPOL-G 781 Practicum II in Public Policy
Our commitment to social change is anchored in our applied policy curriculum which addresses inequities for under-served groups and vulnerable populations. This commitment stands out in the two-semester, practicum class in which doctoral students gain experience in professional-quality, applied research for a real-world client, leading to actionable policy recommendations and journal-quality publications. Read more »
Teaching and Service Partnerships at the Center for Community Democracy and Democratic Literacy
The initial work of this McCormack Graduate School center focuses on the seven major placed-based initiatives within Boston, creating a Community of Practice to extend and expand best practices throughout the city; and provides expert strategic, design, policy and program advice in the creation of the Boston Promise Initiative led by the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), one of the initial twenty-one projects in the nation awarded by the Obama administration. Read more »
The Office of Career Services & Internships - Pre-Collegiate Program Support
The Office of Career Services and Internships at UMass Boston partners with several of the university’s pre-collegiate programs as well as community-based organizations, providing a venue for students and local residents to gain on-the-job professional work experience. Read more »
YTHCTR 220 - Understanding Youth: Youth Identity, Growth, Development
This service-learning class focuses on the skills and knowledge which are common to intervening with individuals and small groups. To be an effective human service worker, it is important to be able to apply skills with an understanding of relevant theories and models, and be able to choose appropriate intervention strategies and methods for particular situations. Read more »
YTHCTR 320 - Models of Practice in Youth Work: Models of Practice with Urban Youth
This course requires students to explore and build on the literature about different practices in youth work. There is also strong emphasis on understanding the value of different practices in relation to culturally diverse populations and settings, and identifying models that encourage both youth and community development. Because this is a service-learning class, there is a focus on learning in context. Read more »

Conflict Resolution

Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity (BRIDGES)
The program applies conflict resolution and group dialogue theories to assist the BRIDGES program in strengthening connections between state and federal agencies and minority communities in Massachusetts. It also creates a forum through which members of minority communities may speak directly with representatives of state and federal agencies to highlight concerns and ask questions. Read more »
Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC)
The Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration builds capacity for conflict resolution, collaboration and consensus-building within public entities and across sectors state-wide and serves as a neutral forum and state-level resource in these fields. MOPC works with government agencies, courts, businesses, nonprofits and citizen groups to address complex issues related to economic development, environmental resource management, land use, agriculture, transportation, housing, and more. Read more »
Metropolitan Mediation Services
The program provides free mediation service to courts, schools, and municipalities, provides training for educators, attorneys, social workers, police, youths, and many others. It also offers training, volunteer, and employment opportunities for students and graduates of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution. Read more »

Criminal Justice/At-Risk Youth

Evaluating Effectiveness of a Public Mental Health Re-entry Program: Strategic Statewide Partnerships
This study is the first ever initiative to merge administrative data in MA to evaluate an important public mental health program. It examines post incarceration outcome of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) enrolled in the MA Department of Mental Health (DMH) Forensic Transition Team (FTT) Program. The program began in 1998 with the goal of transitioning activities. Read more »
Program evaluation of the Center for Teen Empowerment
This was a program evaluation of Teen Empowerment (TE), which inspires young people, and the adults who work with them, to think deeply about the most difficult social problems in their communities, and gives them the tools they need to work with others in creating significant positive change. Read more »

Cultural Arts/Humanities

Amistad Project
In partnership with Amistad America this project is designed to promote national and international communication and understanding. This is done by using the concept of Journeying with the Amistad, with educational programs on-campus and study abroad opportunities (on & off the ship). Read more »
A Partnership with the Boston Public Library for Access to Rare Books
This project created a new collaborative partnership between the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Boston Public Library, focused on expanding public access to rare books. The partnership involves bringing the raw materials of humanities research-rare, historical, and unique books-to the public via UMass Boson courses at the BPL, a series of free, guided, open-to-all "rare books" exhibitions, and a new community outreach program in the BPL's 27 branch libraries. Read more »
Center for Portuguese Language–Instituto Camões
The Center for Portuguese Language-Instituto Camões receives and houses cultural and pedagogical materials and sponsors events and exhibitions that represent the richness and diversity of the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. The center works in partnership with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Department, the home of UMass Boston’s Portuguese Language Program and of curriculum devoted to exploring the histories and cultures of Portugal and Brazil. Read more »
Community University Project for Literacy (CUPL)
The Community-University Project for Literacy (CUPL) provides an academic structure for undergraduates to work as tutors in community-based learning centers. Students who enroll in CUPL commit to tutoring four hours each week at a community program while attending a weekly credit-bearing academic seminar at UMass Boston offered each semester. Read more »
Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School
This project assists with locating historical cultural sites on Eastern Pequot reservation established in A.D 1683, and providing historical preservation and archaeological services at low to no cost to this Native American community. This project also trains undergraduate and graduate students from UMass Boston and other institutions and tribal community interns in archaeological techniques. Read more »
Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
The Fiske Center is engaged with numerous community projects, including the African Meeting House; Gore Place, Waltham, MA; Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, MA; Hassanamesit Woods, Grafton, MA; Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA; Historic Newton (archaeology at Durant Kenrick Homestead); Magunkaquog, Ashland, MA; National Park Service Collaboration; Newport, RI; and Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook, NY. Read more »
Massachusetts Memories Road Show
The Massachusetts Memories Road Show is an event-based public history project that digitizes family photos and stories shared by the people of Massachusetts. We work with local communities to organize free public events where residents are invited to bring family photos to be scanned and included in the archives at UMass Boston. Read more »
Philosophy at the Walter Denney Youth Center
The UMass Boston undergraduate philosophy student group runs a weekly philosophy discussion group with middle and high school students who live on Harbor Point, at (and in partnership with) the Walter Denney Youth Center. Read more »
Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH)
The Research Center for Urban Cultural History premises its work on the multi-disciplinary study of cities as dynamic sites where cultures are generated, renegotiated and transmitted. Read more »
Spanish Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston
The Spanish Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston has been created to enhance the teaching and study of the Spanish language and cultures throughout the Commonwealth. The center provides support for teachers, professionals, university students and all those interested in the knowledge and promotion of the Spanish language and cultures. Read more »
WUMB
WUMB is involved with The Big Read project. It also has a worldwide reach to promote community activities. Read more »

Developmental Disabilities

Camp Shriver – A Free Inclusive Summer Sports Camp for Children with and without Disabilities
For the past seven years, Camp Shriver at the University of Massachusetts Boston has welcomed more than 700 children, half with and half without intellectual and developmental disabilities, ages 8-12, from low income families in the Boston area to a free inclusive summer sports camp. Our campers are boys and girls ages 8-12 who attend school in Boston, Brockton, and Quincy, MA. Read more »
City of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's Commission for Persons with Disabilities
Suzanne Leveille is employing her expertise in the Epidemiology of Aging and Disability, Gerontological Nursing, Research Methods, and Chronic Pain as a member of the advisory board of the Commission for Persons with Disability. Read more »
Institute for Community Inclusion
The Institute for Community Inclusion is involved in a number of partnerships. Read more »
Massachusetts Sibling Support Network
This is a state chapter of the Sibling Leadership Network and is dedicated to the support of siblings of people with disabilities in Massachusetts. Read more »
National Institute of Mental Health's Studies To Advance Autism Research (STAART) in collaboration with Boston University
Professor Alice Carter researches the identification of infants and toddlers at risk for problems in social, behavioral, and emotional functioning and understanding the role of family functioning in the developmental course of children at genetic risk for or exhibiting clinical disorders such as autism, Tourette's Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Read more »
Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education
The Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education is committed to improving education for people with visual disabilities. Read more »
UMass Boston Rehabilitation Counseling
Rehabilitation Counseling program graduate student practicum and internships serving transition-age youth and adults with diverse disabilities. Placement and supervision Rehabilitation Counseling program graduate student practicum and internships serving individuals with legal blindness Rehabilitation Counseling program graduate student practicum and internships serving veterans with disabilities. Read more »

Early Education and Care

Building Together: Implementing a New Statewide Professional Development System for Early Education and Care
This program involves building effective professional development systems are critical for improving the quality of early education and care. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), In 2010, the EEC created a new statewide integrated professional development system for the early education and care workforce. The EEC also examined the implementation of this new system. Read more »
Institute for Community Inclusion
The Boston Ready research project helps Boston four-year-olds learn by supporting high-quality teaching. Early Literacy Matters (ELM) is a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lynn Public Schools, and the Gregg Neighborhood House. Our goal is to create eight preschool centers of excellence impacting 300 children per year identified as “at risk for academic failure.” Read more »
Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Jumpstart
Jumpstart brings college students and community volunteers together with preschool children for year-long, individualized tutoring, and mentoring. Read more »
The Development and Use of Online Modules for Professional Development in Early Childhood Education
The goals of this program are to examine the role of online training modules in professional development for early childhood educators, to understand the technological capacity of the early childhood workforce for using online professional development, and to examine the challenges/barriers to the field in using online professional development and technology-mediated learning. Read more »

Elderly/Senior Citizens

Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) - Strengthening Families-Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
The elder years are often thought of as a time of rest and relaxation, the reality for many American Indian elders is that they have taken on the responsibility of raising the next generation of their family. Through this project, NAICOB and UMass Boston will assess and identify their greatest challenges and areas of need, followed by the development of workshops, focus groups, and a resource manual that connects them with the appropriate provider or program. Read more »
Gerontology Institute
The Gerontology Institute has many partnership projects, including the Elder Economic Security Standard Index, which measures the income that Massachusetts’ seniors need to maintain independence and meet basic living expenses. Read more »
MOBILIZE Boston Study
Suzanne Leveille is pursuing a number of research questions relevant to chronic pain as a cause of falls and disability in this population-based cohort study of older adults. Read more »
Older Driver Safety Coalition
This is a broad coalition organized around older driver safety issues and best practices in older driver safety regulations. Read more »

Environmental Sciences

Boston Harbor Outfall Science Advisory Panel
The Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel (OMSAP) was created by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to assist in evaluating monitoring results and developing appropriate revisions to the permit-required outfall monitoring plan. Michael Shiaris served on a science advisory panel to provide best scientific advise for MWRA decision-making. Read more »
Climate Change and Food Security
UMass Boston provided research and outreach regarding sustainable fisheries and climate change. Read more »
Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security (CIOCS)
The Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security engages scientists, policy makers, and security specialists in an effort to identify and communicate the critical interdependence among oceans, climate, and human safety–an interdependence that is not yet well understood within certain segments of the population. Read more »
Compositae Genome Project
This effort will 1) develop comprehensive gene catalogs and genomic sequences for economically and taxonomically important species in the Compositae. International participants in this initiative include representatives from: University of California - Davis; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; University of British Columbia; Indiana University; and the University of Georgia. Read more »
Green Harbors Project
Among its many projects, the Green Harbors Project designed a biomimetic floating salt marsh to improve water quality in degraded channels where shoreline space is limited. Read more »
Let's Talk About Water
Let’s Talk About Water (LTAW) is a unique program combining the power of film and the science of water to inform and engage students, faculty and the general public in active discussion about water issues and solutions. Read more »
Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC) - MA Forest Futures Visioning Process
The MA Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) initiated the Forest Futures Visioning Process to develop a long-term strategy for managing the 308,000 acres of lands in the State and Urban Parks system. The MA Office of Public Collaboration at UMass Boston designed and facilitated this year-long collaborative visioning process which culminated in a set of consensus recommendations for a 100 year vision for the forests of Massachusetts. Read more »
UMBe Green
The Campus Sustainability Program, UMBe Green, and other related campus departments work with numerous campus departments, academia, students, pre-collegiate programs and partner with local, state and national and international level agencies to reduce environmental footprint and engage the broader community in sustainability. Read more »
Urban Harbors Institute
The Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) is a public policy and applied-science research center focused on issues affecting urban waterfronts and coastal and ocean resources. Our mission is to increase understanding of the marine environment, improve management practices, and promote informed decision making at the local, state and national levels. UHI employs a multidisciplinary approach in all its research and education projects, blending science, policy, and management. Read more »

Ethnic Studies/Minority Issues/Race

Asian American Student Success Program
The mission of the program is to integrate the educational, cultural, and linguistic expertise of faculty, staff, students, families, and local communities to build, assess, and sustain an ongoing, holistic program of activities, services, and research in order to achieve two specific goals: 1) to increase college access for Asian Americans who are low-income or first-generation college-goers and for underrepresented Asian American ethnic populations, and 2) to increase Asian American retention. Read more »
Center for Social Policy - Evaluation of the Boston-Haifa Learning Exchange
The Center for Social Policy has been commissioned by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Boston (JCRC) to collaborate with JCRC, Haifa-based Council of Volunteer Organizations, Shatil and Lead Haifa to conduct a strategic evaluation of their Boston-Haifa Learning Exchange and Study Tours. Read more »
Diversity in Public Administration and Public Management: Representation and Public Service for a Changing Country
Public managers and agencies in the U.S. face the challenge of serving communities that differ by race, gender, ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientation and other characteristics. This project addresses the changes to the diversity in the workforce and the challenges that people may face. Read more »
Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management - ARRA Demographic Analysis
The Collins Center issued a report, in conjunction with UMass Boston’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, examining which racial, gender and ethnic groups benefited from jobs created or retained by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more »
Institute for Asian American Studies
The Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston utilizes resources and expertise from the University and the community to conduct research on Asian Americans; to strengthen and further Asian American involvement in political, economic, social, and cultural life; and to improve opportunities and campus life for Asian American faculty, staff, and students and for those interested in Asian Americans. Read more »
Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS)
Our mission is to develop collaborative relationships, projects, and programs between Native American tribes of the New England region and all of the UMass campuses so that the tribes may participate in and benefit from university research, innovation, scholarship, and education. Read more »
(In)Visible (Im)Migrants: The Health and Socioeconomic Integration of Brazilians in Metropolitan Boston
The report is the first statistically credible estimates of legal and unauthorized Brazilians residing in the seven-county Boston-Cambridge-Quincy Metropolitan Statistical Area (BCQ-MSA) – an area which includes Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts and Rockingham and Strafford Counties in New Hampshire. Read more »
Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
The mission of the Gastón Institute is to inform policy makers about issues vital to the state’s growing Latino community and to provide this community with the information and analysis necessary for effective participation in public policy development. The institute responds to requests from government and foundations for CBPR studies seeking to test theories and methods for addressing disparities in educational, health, and economic outcomes in U.S. Latino and Latin American communities. Read more »
William Monroe Trotter Institute
The William Monroe Trotter Institute was founded at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1984 to address the needs and concerns of the Black community and communities of color in Boston and Massachusetts through research, technical assistance, and public service. Many forms of technical assistance are provided to community groups, organizations, and public agencies. Read more »

Gender/Sexuality

Somerville Commission for Women (SCW) Community Needs Assessment
Worked with the Somerville Commission for Women to conduct a needs assessment survey of women residents. An MSPA student is helping with the project. Massachusetts Nonprofit Network was a co-sponsor of the survey of nonprofits that we did. Read more »

Government/Politics

Center for Civil Discourse - Civility and American Democracy: A National Forum
At a time when political discourse seems to be on the path to paralysis, this forum brought together prominent humanities scholars, political thinkers, and journalists to explore the meaning of civility and its role in American democracy. The forum holds the following sessions: 1 ) Civility in American History; 2) Civility and Morality; 3) Civility and Culture; 4) Civility, Politics, and the Media Read more »
Center for Governance and Sustainability
The Center for Governance and Sustainability seeks to bring academic rigor to real-world policy challenges in environment, development, and sustainability governance. Read more »
Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD)
The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development is dedicated to advancing democracy, rule of law, and economic and social development in post-communist, transitional, and developing areas abroad. Working with local partners, CPDD focuses on: 1) Strengthening local government and civil society. 2) Promoting viable, independent media. 3) Helping judiciaries become more effective and more transparent. 4) Assisting in conflict reduction. 5) Promoting greater educational and economic opportunities. Read more »
Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy
One project is a partnership with the Women’s Pipeline for Change which aims to build a sustainable infrastructure to support women of color as they enter public life. The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy’s Political Progress for New England Women Project provides regularly updated statistics, analysis, and commentary on the status of women’s political representation and leadership across New England Read more »
Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
The Collins Center is developing a compendium of elected positions in every Massachusetts city and town, as well as a history of contested elections and voter participation since 2007. The Collins Center is working with six communities in central Massachusetts to develop shared services and regional solutions. Read more »
Open Society Foundations
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. Professor Sharon Horne serves as an academic fellow in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia and working on higher education reform. She also helps to facilitate the development of an ethics code for helping professionals in Central Asia in addition to performing cross-cultural research. Read more »

Health Disparities

Center for Social Policy - Closing the Gap on Healthcare Disparities
With funding from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, the Center for Social Policy is conducting an evaluation of healthcare disparity interventions taking place throughout Massachusetts identifying outcomes from the experience of eleven coalitions of community organizations, health care providers and consumers. Read more »
Gerontology Institute - Latino End-of-Life Care: Patient, Provider, & Institutional Effects
The goal of this project is to estimate patient-, provider-, and institution-level effects on Latino-white disparities in end-of-life care and treatment goal attainment. Read more »
HORIZON Center
The HORIZON Center is an Exploratory Center of Excellence (COE) funded by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Our mission is to improve minority health and promote health equity through research, research training, and community engagement. Like other COEs, HORIZON is organized into four core areas: research, research training, community engagement, and administration. However, we work to promote collaboration and integration across core areas. Read more »
Institute for Community Inclusion - Partners Healthcare Initiative - Disability Awareness
Boston’s disability community and the Boston Center for Independent Living (BCIL), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have begun a comprehensive and landmark effort to improve access and care for people with disabilities. The initiative is comprehensive in scope. Read more »

Health Care/Nutrition and Wellness

Boston Family Planning Advanced Family Planning Course
This is a two-day intensive course offered three times per year for front line staff from community Title X Family Planning Programs. Read more »
Community-driven Research with Boston area Women Infants and Children (WIC) clinics
Since 2009 Abbey Eisenhower has developed partnerships with local WIC offices and staff to identify service-related needs of the low-income families of young children that WIC serves, which has in turn shaped our research objectives. We have also worked with these WIC offices to identify and invite families of young children to participate in our research studies, including the School Transitions Study and the Child & Family Development Project. Read more »
EHS 420 – Pediatric Exercise: GoKids Health Ambassador’s Program at Roger Clapp Innovation School
This program delivers the GoKids program out in the community impacting more students and forging ties with more schools. It also offers Pediatric Exercise students with opportunities to be trained at GoKids, shadow a public physical education teacher, and administer programming. Read more »
GoKids Boston Youth Fitness, Training, and Research Center
GoKids Boston embodies innovation and leadership in youth health through life-changing programs, groundbreaking research, exceptional training opportunities, and dedication to the community with a focus on eliminating health disparities. Read more »
Honduras: Local, Regional and Global Partnerships to Improve Health in Olancho
The Honduran Mission Team-New Hampshire (HMT-NH) in partnership with the Olancho Aid Foundation (OAF), works in the Olancho department to improve the health and education of the Honduran people. The HMT-NH 2012 Healthcare Team included UMass Boston faculty and a nursing student working with American and Honduran doctors and nurses to provide culturally-appropriate healthcare and collect data about the needs of the Honduran people in Olancho. Read more »
HORIZON Center - Roxbury Heart and Sole: A Community-based Multiple Risk Reduction Program
The HORIZON Center has two projects, including one focused on cardiovascular risk reduction in Roxbury, a predominantly African-American, inner city population who face multiple risks for cardiovascular disease. Read more »
Increasing Physical Activity In Inner City Youth Using Novel Interactive Gaming
The aim of this project was to assess the feasibility of participation in an afterschool physical activity program incorporating novel exercise technologies on changing physical activity level and physical fitness, compared to a nutrition education intervention alone. A second objective was to assess whether this type of intervention could modify cardiovascular risk factors and anthropometrics. Read more »
Institute for Community Inclusion - Twa Zanmi, Haitian American Public Health Initiatives and the Haitian Media Network
The Twa Zanmi project studies the immigration experiences of Boston’s Haitian community and how those experiences may impact health. The project will create a community-directed TV program about three recent Haitian immigrants. The program will be aired in Creole. It will air on the radio, on the web, and on CD/DVD. Toll-free numbers will be available for questions and to provide information about local services. Read more »
Gerontology Institute
The Gerontology Institute has done many studies, including one in which it surveyed CDSMP trainers on their experience including people with Alzheimer's Disease/dementia in their workshops and their assessment as to the benefits and challenges of doing so. Read more »
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Burial Guide Training
The Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) involves the dissemination and implementation of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute’s (LDBPI) “Burial and Resource Guide” and a corresponding evaluation. The burial guide is a “step-by-step” manual. Read more »
Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy has multiple collaborative efforts, including CRUZA, is a collaborative effort of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the UMass Boston Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, with funding from the National Institute of Health. Read more »
Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance (NERVANA)
This consortium of six schools and colleges of nursing have joined with the Veterans Administration entities in Boston and Bedford to collaborate in providing quality learning experiences for undergraduate nursing students, research, and to make known and impact the particular health care needs of the American Veteran. Read more »
NU 461 - Community Health Nursing Service Learning
Students taking NU 461 Community Health Nursing for Registered Nurses complete a service-learning project at a variety of health related community agencies including public health departments, school health, social service agencies, aging service, and local youth development initiatives. The course serves as an in depth examination of community and public health nursing for registered nurses and enables students to perform complex, comprehensive interventions. Read more »
NU 680 - Primary Care of the Family: Practicum II
The college’s strong commitment to integrated learning approaches has resulted in strong partnerships with some of the best healthcare organizations in the nation, such as Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, and the VA Medical Centers, among many others. Our students’ clinical internships are in these centers of excellence in quality care, and many students enjoy employment in the same centers after graduation. Read more »
NU 682 - Primary Care of the Family: Practicum III
The college’s strong commitment to integrated learning approaches has resulted in strong partnerships with some of the best healthcare organizations in the nation, such as Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, and the VA Medical Centers, among many others. Our students’ clinical internships are in these centers of excellence in quality care, and many students enjoy employment in the same centers after graduation. Read more »
NU 763 - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Internship III
Our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program is designed to give experienced nurses the knowledge, skills, and judgment competencies required for leading the way to the future of clinical nursing and health care delivery systems. The DNP program prepares advanced practice nurses for roles in health systems leadership, policy development, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Read more »
NU 764 - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Capstone Seminar and Internship IV
Our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program is designed to give experienced nurses the knowledge, skills, and judgment competencies required for leading the way to the future of clinical nursing and health care delivery systems. The DNP program prepares advanced practice nurses for roles in health systems leadership, policy development, and interdisciplinary collaboration that focus on: improving health care quality and increasing health care access to all communities and groups. Read more »
Oral Fluid Testing, Inc.
This effort has developed educational materials for distribution to parents about metal toxicity and metal testing. Read more »
Psych 430 - Undergraduate Internship in Psychology
Students provide much needed assistance to clients in agencies that are often under-funded and under-staffed. The intern offers 1-1 support and caring to children, adolescents, and adults struggling to improve their lives. Learning: The experience of joining a professional staff in a hospital or agency offers a chance to learn and grow on many levels. Students learn about themselves as they see first hand how agencies attempt to assist those with psychological problems. Read more »
UMass Boston School Counseling program partnership with the Red & Blue Foundation
The School Counseling program has partnered with Red & Blue Foundation to provide a service learning opportunity to the School Counseling students. The School Counseling students volunteer their time tutoring student-athletes within the Boston Public School system with the intent of helping high school student-athletes develop academically within a safe and caring environment. Read more »
Working Together: Recruiting African American Female Caregivers and Pre-adolescents Girls for Longitudinal Study
The aim of this project is to implement an enhanced sexual communication intervention with mother- pre adolescent girls. It also aims to maintain the short term enhanced sexual communication intervention and evaluate the long term efficacy (9 months) of an enhanced sexual communication intervention with mothers and pre-adolescent girls. Finally the project aims to determine whether the constructs of the Information Motivation- Behavioral skills (IMB) Model can account for variability. Read more »

Homelessness/Hunger/Housing

Center for Social Policy
The Center for Social Policy has been engaged by the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership to evaluate efforts funded by the Federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) to provide housing for families experiencing homelessness. The Family-to Family Project (FtF) commissioned the Center for Social Policy to evaluate its Family Homelessness Prevention Program during the period 2011 - 2013. Read more »
Give US Your Poor-A National Public Education Campaign Addressing Homelessness
Give US Your Poor is a national, non-partisan public education and action initiative based at UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. Its mission is to dispel myths and promote structural solutions to homelessness with the general public and leaders through a comprehensive approach. It works to affect change at the policy level and engage volunteerism and contributions at the individual and corporate levels through media, technology, and education. Read more »
Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Campus Kitchen at the University of Massachusetts Boston (CKUMB)
CKUMB has been serving the East Zone Early Learning Center since February of 2010. Since this inception, we have served participating families within this school one meal weekly during the academic school year. Read more »

Information Technology

IT 240L - Web Fluency Service-Learning Project: website redesign for Josiah Quincy School Association
This course develop an in-depth understanding of how the web works from a technical standpoint, meaning how dynamic pages are created and delivered by web servers, and then used by browsers and other clients. Students demonstrate this understanding by achieving competency by using a current integrated development environment (IDE) to develop web applications. Read more »

K-12 Education

2010 Out of school Time Summer Learning Promotion Grant
This report evaluates a project funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) to stem summer reading loss by funding literacy initiatives, through which urban youth participate in out-of-school-time programs. This evaluation focused on work in high need communities to support literacy in summer program. Read more »
Amesbury Early College Program: Second-Year Outcomes
This program involves creating five-year longitudinal community-based program evaluation reports annually based on outcomes for early college program for academically average students in grades 10-12, in a suburban high school partnership with MA community college. The mixed methodology employed uses surveys and interviews and quantitative student data to illuminate program design, measure student outcomes, investigate changes in teaching practice and examine effective leadership practices. Read more »
Beacons of Hope - UMass Boston Latino Leadership Initiative (LLI)
The Latino Leadership Initiative (LLI), annually serves up to 50 of the nation’s most promising undergraduates with demonstrated interest in serving the Latino(a)community. The objectives of this program are to enhance the leadership capacity of students committed to serving the Latino community, to help participants form a strong and durable bond among themselves and with other leaders and to inspire participants to view their own possibilities for leadership and professional achievement. Read more »
Family Academy Project
The Family Academy Project, in partnership with Urban Edge, strives to have families work together to share and support one another with educational objectives for their children, as their children move from early ages up to and through college. Read more »
Getting Past Go Education Commission of the States
This project seeks to conduct research and engage state policymakers, system and institutional leaders around improving remedial/developmental education policy and outcomes. Read more »
Girls Reading Literature Society (G.R.L.S.) and Guys Read programs
Based out of the College of Liberal Arts and in partnerships with the Boston Public Library’s neighborhood branch libraries, Guys Read and Girls Reading Literature Society (G.R.L.S.) make reading come alive for pre-teen boys and girls. Read more »
Harbor Point Outreach Partnership- Walter Denney Center
The Harbor Point Outreach Partnership is a community-university tutoring and afterschool youth enrichment program based on the work of students in service-learning classes, volunteers and work study students from UMass Boston and the community. We are part of the UMass Boston-Harbor Point Apartment Community Memorandum of Agreement. Read more »
Institute for Learning and Teaching - Project ALERTA
Project ALERTA was initiated in 1988 by the Institute for Learning and Teaching (ILT) at the University of Massachusetts Boston in order to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of Latino students (particularly gifted and talented) in the Boston Public Schools. Read more »
Institute for Learning and Teaching - Talented And Gifted Latino Program (TAG)
TAG accomplishes its mission through six program components which provide comprehensive academic, personal, and social support to Latino youth and English Language Learners (ELL). In each component TAG integrates leadership development and community building, thereby creating the next generation of Latino leaders that will uplift the Boston community. Read more »
Life Outcomes for University High School Students
University High School is a community-based alternative school for youth not successful in their home high schools. Our study, which is in progress, will identify the life outcomes of students graduating from UHS and the impact the alternative high school had on graduates lives. Read more »
Madison Park Technical High School Nursing Assisting Program Advisory Council
Peter Terres advises the Nursing Assisting Program at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, which prepares students for post graduation work and educational experiences. This is accomplished through clinical rotations and internships with industry partners to further prepare our students for licensing, certifications and college programs in their chosen careers. Read more »
Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
One project focuses on the unique needs of students who require both special education and English language learning and has already produced a report by Dr. Maria de Lourdes Serpa. The Gaston Institute is also involved with a collaborative project of researchers and practitioners from Boston Public Schools and the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). Read more »
Project REACH (Realizing Educational And Career Hopes)
REACH identifies and serves disadvantaged young people who have the potential for education at the post-secondary level and encourages them to continue and graduate from secondary school and enroll in programs of post-secondary education. High school and post-secondary dropouts are also encouraged and assisted in returning to school. Read more »
Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH) - Mapping the Urban Streets of Boston
In partnership with Tech Boston Academy Dorchester, MA, the purpose of this project was to produce team-created multi-media presentations that commemorate a particular street, with each team choosing its own street site. Several professors at UMass Boston conducted a short workshop by videoconferencing, or a longer workshop or field trip by visiting Tech Boston Academy. Read more »
Roger Clap Innovation School Community Partner Governing Board
The College of Education and Human Development places students there as pre-practicum and practicum student teachers, provides professional development in writing instruction for Grades 3-5 teachers, and works with teachers' professional development in the area of writing and literacy. Read more »
SPY 685 Practicum in School Psychology – Prevention and Systems and SPY 686 Practicum in School Psychology - Assessment
Graduate students provide prevention and early intervention social/emotional services (e.g., violence prevention curriculum implementation, group counseling). Read more »
Teacher Parent Literacy Program
The Department of Applied Linguistics and the Center for World Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Boston were awarded a Title III grant by the U.S. Department's Office of English Language Acquisition for the Teacher Parent Literacy Program to implement a two-pronged collaborative program with Boston and Brockton public schools and community agencies. Read more »
Teach Next Year / Noyce Urban Teacher Scholarship Program
UMass Boston has hosted Noyce Scholars for the last four academic years (2006-2010). The program is built upon seven years of an existing program in the UMass Boston Graduate College of Education: Teach Next Year (TNY). TNY is an accelerated teacher education program designed to prepare interns for urban teaching as they obtain their initial licensure. Noyce funding supports TNY interns who are dedicated to teaching math and science in urban schools. Graduates have all gone on to teaching positi Read more »
Teachers as Scholars
Teachers as Scholars represents both a new vision of professional development and a vital collaboration between college and university faculty and public and private school teachers. Through this program, K-12 teachers participate in small, multiple-day seminars led by leading professors in the humanities, social sciences and sciences and are, thus, reconnected to the world of scholarship – the reason many of them became teachers in the first place. Read more »
Urban Partnerships Promoting Academic Excellence
This program aims that incorporating service learning in curricula will prepare school counseling students to promote educational excellence and equity among urban youth, and Co-creating school counseling interventions between UMass Boston faculty and BPS personnel will foster communication and meet student needs. School counseling students complete a 100-hour practicum experience in the Boston Public Schools as a group, attending one of two high schools (Urban Science Academy or Tech Boston). Read more »

Labor

Labor Resource Center
The mission of the LRC – to advance the interests of workers and their organizations through education and research – is carried out through its three programs: 1) the Labor Studies Program which includes the BA in Labor Studies and a professional Certificate in Labor Studies and Leadership; 2) the Future of Work Research Initiative which conducts and disseminates labor research on economic and workforce development; and 3) the Labor Extension Program. Read more »

Pre-collegiate Programs

Admission Guaranteed Program
The goals of Admission Guaranteed include: 1) to help students and their parents formulate clear educational goals and the steps necessary to achieve them. 2) To provide concrete incentives for students to achieve at a higher level. 3) To increase student's awareness of available opportunities for post-secondary education. 4) To raise the level of student's preparedness for higher education. Read more »
Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS)
The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association has become the premier organization for those in the field of native and indigenous studies. While it has held several annual conferences, this is its first year in New England, something that was made possible only as a result of a multi-university collaboration. Native Tribal Scholars is a pre-collegiate initiative developed and run as a collaboration. Read more »
Upward Bound
Upward Bound is an intensive, year-round college-prep program. Our mission is to assist low-income, first-generation college bound high school students in the successful completion of secondary education and prepare them academically and socially for enrollment and completion of higher education. Upward Bound offers services to students through an after-school program at UMass Boston during the school year and a six-week residential program, currently at Regis College, during the summer. Read more »
Urban Scholars
Urban Scholars Program provides talented and gifted students—especially those from low income and minority backgrounds—with the resources to develop the skills and self-motivation needed to enter and successfully complete post-secondary education. The program accommodates 120 students, 75 students at the high school level and 45 at the middle school level. Read more »

STEM Education

COSMIC (Center of Science and Mathematics in Context)
The purpose of BEST is to deepen the work of the Boston Science Partnership that has been going on since 2004. The BEST project is helping teachers understand and teach the big ideas of science, like energy, which can sometimes be excluded when the lessons prepared are organized to fit only one specific area of science. The Boston Science Partnership (BSP) aims to improve science education in Boston from middle school through graduate school. Read more »
Math/Science Upward Bound
The UMass Boston-Noble and Greenough School Math/Science Upward Bound Program (MSUB) is a six-week residential program, serving 50 high school students with promising academic records and a desire to improve their future prospects. MSUB specifically identifies students interested in math and science who wish to pursue advanced study and careers in related fields. Our students come from the greater Boston and Lawrence areas. Read more »
STEM Fellowship Greater Boston Readiness Center
Together with experts in the field, 18 STEM fellows developed this set of recommendations to the state and the field for improvements to professional development for early childhood educators in STEM education. This project was a collaboration between STEM fellows, STEM faculty, University of Massachusetts early childhood faculty and was funded by the Professional Development Partnerships in Regions 4 and 6. Read more »
UMass Boston Anthropology Outreach
The program serves as a science enrichment program for the Boston area K-12 public schools where science teachers are provided with fossil casts of early human ancestors and the expertise of UMass Boston faculty. The program helps students further their understanding of biological evolution and the program was free to 13 pre- qualified Boston area schools. Read more »
Youth Astronomy Apprenticeship (YAA)
Professor Bala Sundaram worked with students to extend the reach to 'this side of the river' and to host informal observational astronomy programs for the general public as a part of an after-school program targeting older youth and operated out of MIT's Kavli Institute. Read more »

Violence Prevention

Training for Educators: “She did WHAT?” “He said WHAT?” How to respond to the sexual behaviors of children
The goal of the training is to demonstrate a model for responding to sexual behaviors to promote healthy child development and prevent child sexual abuse. The training draws upon the latest research on child sexual abuse prevention to provide new information and strategies about how to increase early education professionals’ skills and confidence in responding proactively to issues of sexual development and sexual abuse. Read more »

UMass Boston Partnerships

See Also

Adult Education/Literacy

Adult Literacy Resource Institute

Boston Public Library Consortium's Strategic Priority Committee

Center for Social Policy

Veterans Upward Bound

Business/Organizational/Financial Management

Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council

Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management

Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network's Boston Regional Office and Minority Business Center

Predictive Policing: Boston Police Department

Strategic Planning with Quincy Asian Resources

Community/Economic/Workforce Development

AmplifyMe

Brazilian Immigrant Center Partnership

Center for Collaborative Leadership - Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

Center for Social Policy

China Program Center

Commonwealth Compact

Community Partnership Job Shadow Day

CommUniversity

Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects & Programs

Department of Information Technology at UMass Boston

Geographic Information Systems Facilitate Youth Workers and Community Stakeholder Efforts

Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center

Green Harbors Project - Waquoit Bay

Health Careers Opportunity Program

Institute for Asian American Studies

Institute for Community Inclusion

MGT470 - Social Innovations

Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Beacon Voyages for Service

PAF-G 691 - Capstone/Case Study Seminar in Public Policy

PPOL-G 780 Practicum in Public Policy and PPOL-G 781 Practicum II in Public Policy

Teaching and Service Partnerships at the Center for Community Democracy and Democratic Literacy

The Office of Career Services & Internships - Pre-Collegiate Program Support

YTHCTR 220 - Understanding Youth: Youth Identity, Growth, Development

YTHCTR 320 - Models of Practice in Youth Work: Models of Practice with Urban Youth

Conflict Resolution

Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity (BRIDGES)

Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC)

Metropolitan Mediation Services

Criminal Justice/At-Risk Youth

Evaluating Effectiveness of a Public Mental Health Re-entry Program: Strategic Statewide Partnerships

Program evaluation of the Center for Teen Empowerment

Cultural Arts/Humanities

Amistad Project

A Partnership with the Boston Public Library for Access to Rare Books

Center for Portuguese Language–Instituto Camões

Community University Project for Literacy (CUPL)

Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School

Fiske Center for Archaeological Research

Massachusetts Memories Road Show

Philosophy at the Walter Denney Youth Center

Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH)

Spanish Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston

WUMB

Developmental Disabilities

Camp Shriver – A Free Inclusive Summer Sports Camp for Children with and without Disabilities

City of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's Commission for Persons with Disabilities

Institute for Community Inclusion

Massachusetts Sibling Support Network

National Institute of Mental Health's Studies To Advance Autism Research (STAART) in collaboration with Boston University

Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education

UMass Boston Rehabilitation Counseling

Early Education and Care

Building Together: Implementing a New Statewide Professional Development System for Early Education and Care

Institute for Community Inclusion

Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Jumpstart

The Development and Use of Online Modules for Professional Development in Early Childhood Education

Elderly/Senior Citizens

Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) - Strengthening Families-Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Gerontology Institute

MOBILIZE Boston Study

Older Driver Safety Coalition

Environmental Sciences

Boston Harbor Outfall Science Advisory Panel

Climate Change and Food Security

Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security (CIOCS)