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Founded in 1996 as a joint effort of Dr. Sidney Ribeau, BGSU President, and Dr. Kathy Farber, Director of Partnerships for
Community Action (PCA), the office has met the challenge of bringing together diverse constituencies from the University and
the surrounding communities to address issues that concern both. PCA accomplishes this goal through building and supporting
campus/community projects based on reciprocity, co-equal participation, and mutual benefit. Over the past ten years, PCA has
collaborated with such varied groups as the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC),
Erie County Recycling & Litter Prevention, the Latino MacArthur Fellows, Metroparks of the Toledo Area, School of Hope, Toledo
Public Libraries, Toledo Public Schools, and innumerable faculty, staff, BGSU students, and community organizations and businesses.
PCA/CITE Partnership Support Grant Program
In 1998, PCA’s Partnership Support Grant program was implemented to promote mutual benefit and reciprocity by providing funding
to University/community partnerships that address a broad range of topics and concerns. In 2003, Dr. Farber combined grant
resources and money with Dr. William Armaline of BGSU’s Center for Innovative and Transformative Education (CITE) to create
a joint Partnership Support Grant program that meets the mission of both offices and provides enhanced funding opportunities
for University/community partnerships. Over the past 10 years, 119 projects have been awarded $363,704 in Partnership Support
Grant funds. Through the Support Grant program, PCA/CITE have helped to enrich the University and surrounding community through
projects such as Bringing Books to Life, Career Exploration Days Project, Elder Abuse Conference, Enhancing Equal Educational
Opportunities for Teenage Parents, Migrant Farm Worker Families and Musical Culture, Summer Youth Aviation Academy, Therapeutic
Horseback Riding for People with Disabilities, Urban Schools Project, and many more.
PCA/CITE Dissemination Grant Program
PCA and CITE are proud to announce their Dissemination Grant Program. The Dissemination Grant Program is a recent addition
to PCA/CITE activities, with the first one awarded $5, 000 for grant year 2008, the Adelante-BGSU Latino Community Media Project.
The Dissemination Grant Program is being offered primarily so that members of the campus and the broader community will have
support to explore and address how best to articulate and share the knowledge arising from their partnerships in order to
create significant impact and further the collaborative process. The grant call asks that partners examine the knowledge
produced in their current or past partnership activity as well as the interests and purposes served by disseminating that
knowledge. Partners must illustrate how the knowledge from the partnership project is being disseminated so that it can be
used by the target audience and all members of the partnership to better their life circumstances. Partners must also address
how and why the members agreed upon the particular form or forms of dissemination. PCA and CITE are excited about this new
grant program and have developed it with a learning attitude. We assume that the members of our Centers, grant applicants,
and partners will all be learning more about dissemination, the forms it might take and its impact. We invite you to engage
in thoughtful, innovative and respectful explorations of how the knowledge and findings generated in partnership activity
might be shared.
PCA Grant Partnerships
PCA is also active in grant research and funding procurement, and has helped bring two large U.S. Department of Education
grants to BGSU: a GEAR UP grant and a Title II/PCC grant.
GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Preparation) is a $4.7 million grant that brings assistance
and resources to East Toledo Junior High and Waite High School, two high-need urban schools in Toledo, Ohio. GEAR UP works
to help junior high and high school students get through secondary and post-secondary education, and to assist the schools
and teachers through structural and curricular reform.
The Title II/PCC grant (Partners in Context and Community) is a $4.2 million grant that also works with high-need urban schools
in Toledo, but focuses on training college students to be teachers and giving them applied experiences with future students
to supplement their classroom learning.
Partnerships for Community Action
111 University Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
phone (419) 372-9624 or (419) 372-7316 ~ fax (419) 372-8264
email pca@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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