At its heart, a place-based approach is built on a simple principle: The people who live closest to a problem are also ...

State and regional associations can help build colleges' capacity for work-based learning, including internships, apprenticeships, and project-based capstones. Creating hands-on, work-based learning ...

Violence interruption is a community-based intervention strategy that can reduce gun violence and improve public safety in neighborhoods around the country. Only in America: The Front Lines of the Gun ...

Current research and results from current program implementation suggest the following outcomes may be obtained from involvement in community-based education programs and concurrent on-going classroom ...

In addition to efforts from state and federal lawmakers, schools and communities have a critical role to play in addressing school gun violence through prevention and intervention approaches. Only in ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applies a community-based protection approach rooted in the principle of “people protecting people”, recognizing that community members are often best placed to identify ...

Through the PWR’s Writing Initiative for Service and Engagement (WISE), founded in 2008, the program has integrated community-engaged writing throughout its lower- and upper-division courses. Students ...

There are five words that Grace Fox, CC ’23, would use to describe herself: student, organizer, friend, advocate, and badass. During her time at Columbia, Fox has devoted herself to working alongside ...

The Southeast Alaska LGBTQ+ Alliance will award a local advocate for spaces and support for queer youth with its Mildred Boesser Equal Rights Award on Sunday. Meryl Connelly-Chew, who works for the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recently published horizon scan on community-based conservation identified 15 topics that offer opportunities to yield positive change for people ...

The newly opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture (“The Cheech”) in Riverside, Calif., houses the world's largest collection of works by Mexican American artists. Rosy Cortez had a ...

For roughly 80% of our lives, we’re 25 miles or less from home — at work, at the supermarket, at school pickup. But when you ask a patient to join a clinical trial, you’re usually asking them to go ...