Provost-Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award 

We are pleased to announce the Provost- Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award. This annual award recognizes Faculty- Community Partnership projects. The amount of the award is $10,000 ($5,000 to the faculty member and $5,000 to the community partner). The purpose of the award is to recognize sustained and productive University/Community partnerships and to develop or enhance ongoing work. Junior and senior faculty along with senior lecturers and associated faculty from any of Penn’s 12 schools are eligible for nomination, together with their community partners. Please see below for the complete description and process of nomination. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this award, please direct them to the ABCS coordinator, Faustine Sun, at abcscoordinator@sas.upenn.edu

Award Nomination Process 

Deadline: April 1 

The award recognizes Faculty-Community Partnership Projects. One award will be made annually for $5,000 to a faculty member and another $5,000 to the community partner to recognize, develop and advance an existing partnership. 

Criteria for Selection 

(1) The community partnership project must be affiliated with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships i.e., engaged with Academically Based Community Service (ABCS), Problem Solving Learning (PSL) or Participatory Action Research (PAR) style pedagogy and/or research. 

(2) The partnership project must demonstrate record of sustainable engagement. 

(3) The faculty member can be an assistant, associate, or full professor, senior lecturer,or associated faculty. 

Process of Nomination 

(1) Nominations may come from members of the University and the wider community, though the strongest nominations will be those that represent both the University and the community. 

(2) Nominators should submit a completed packet (see https://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/about-center/advisory-boards/faculty-advisory-board/provost-netter-center-faculty-community-partnership) by April 1 of the given academic year to the ABCS coordinator at the Netter Center, who will submit applications to the review committee, comprised of faculty and community members.

(3) The faculty committee will submit their recommendations by April 15 to the Netter Center Director and the Provost, who will jointly make the final selection. The award decision will be announced on May 1. 

—Terri H. Lipman, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement; Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition; Professor of Nursing of Children, SON; Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair; Chair of the Provost-Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award Nomination Process

—Dennis DeTurck, Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor; Professor and Undergraduate Chair of Mathematics, SAS; Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair; Provost's Senior Faculty Fellow at the Netter Center

—John Gearhart, James W. Effron University Professor and Emeritus Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biomedical Sciences, PSOM and School of Veterinary Medicine; Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—John Jackson Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication; Richard Perry University Professor; Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Co-director, Biological Basis of Behavior Program; 
Provost's Faculty Fellow at the Netter Center

—Vernoca Michael, Director, Paul Robeson House and Museum, West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; Member, Netter Center Community Advisory Board

—Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President; Founding Director, Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships