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Deadline: Monday, March 3 2025
Call for Proposals: Public Good Fund
The Public Good Fund supports community-engaged research or creative work that are rooted in mutually beneficial and reciprocal community partnership. Grants will be available in 2024-2025 for up to $25,000.
Proposals are due by noon on Monday, March 3, 2025. Click below to learn more about the fund, view past projects, and view an info session recording for proposal tips and best practices.
Public Good Impact Blog
Discover how students, faculty, and staff are creating change through collaborations with community partners.
Annual Public Good Celebration
The Public Good Celebration is an annual event hosted by the Office for Public Good Strategy & Research that celebrates university and community partners whose collaborative work advances the public good. Student, faculty, and staff are invited to submit their work to showcase at the Celebration.
The 2024 Public Good Celebration also celebrated DU's 2024 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. To view this year's submitted works, visit the page below:
Featured Public Good WorkDU Grand Challenges Events: A University-Wide Initiative Powered by CCESL
Spark Sessions
Spark Sessions are informal, conversational style meet ups to bring people together around a specific topic to spark new ideas and seed new collaborations. Attendees can drop-in at any time to enjoy food and drinks.
View above for upcoming Spark Sessions
Fireside Chats
Fireside Chats was a series centered on discussing topics that affect each of us in our community through engaging panels of academic experts, students, alumni, and community leaders. Each Fireside Chat focused on a different topic with a goal of creating an environment where we listen to each other and share resources, allies, and connections.
View Past Fireside Chats
A Community Table
A Community Table is a conversation toolkit through which you can engage in structured, meaningful, solution-oriented conversations about the issues that matter most to you and your community. DU Grand Challenges (DUGC) provides the tools (sample invitations, conversation guides, facilitation training webinars, and more) that you need to host a conversation. You choose when, where, and with whom to have that conversation.
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