UM-Flint Impact Circle Collective Action Framework – 2015-2016 Project Goals (9/9/15)

Broad Disciplinary Categories / Master Plan Chapter / Community Partner-Identified Project / University People/Resources Needed / Evaluation of Success/Efficacy (Indicators/Measures) / How to Document Impacts
Arts & Humanities, Education, Health, Social Sciences, STEM
Business, Social Sciences, STEM
Health, Human Services, Social Sciences
Arts & Humanities, Business, Health, Social Sciences
Arts & Humanities, Education, Social Sciences, STEM
Business, Human Services, Social Sciences / Arts & Culture; Environmental Features; Public Safety, Health & Welfare
Economic Development & Education
Housing & Neighborhoods
Arts & Culture; Public Safety, Health & Welfare
Arts & Culture, Housing & Neighborhoods
Housing & Neighborhoods / (Building Neighborhood Capacity Program):
·  Explore opportunities to improve Hasselbring Park, which is located between two BNCP neighborhoods, and reduce crime around it
·  Explore project opportunities and connect residents with existing resources (e.g. Innovation Incubator) to help new startups, existing businesses, and growing firms to build their business with minimal cost and infrastructure and support business sustainability
·  Support blight elimination through the SPARK Project for boarding vacant properties in the neighborhood around Our Savior Lutheran Church and through neighborhood clean-ups
(Civic Park Urban Renaissance Center):
·  Support development of the large mural and potentially other elements (e.g. urban farmers market stall) as a gateway into Civic Park
·  Support the establishment of a Heritage Center in a vacant Civic Park building to feature artifacts, oral histories and other ways of representing the history of the neighborhood
·  Partner with URC and other stakeholders (Civic Park Neighborhood Association, Habitat 4 Humanity, etc.) in developing a five-year neighborhood development plan in alignment with the City of Flint Master Plan