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Rural Grocery Initiative
Confronting issues of business development, public health and community sustainability, CECD is partnering with the Kansas Sampler Foundation, the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, grocery store owners from across the state and faculty and staff from the departments of agricultural economics, human nutrition and rural sociology at K-State to identify and develop models to sustain retail sources of food for rural Kansas citizens. Read more
Public Issues Education
The 2010 ICDD Public Issues Facilitation Workshop was held January 11-13, 2010 on the Kansas State University main campus. This workshop has also gone on the road to be conducted in Canada, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Read more

Fall 2009 Engagement Incentive Grants

Bruce Snyder
Department of Biology

Earthworms Across Kansas: A Citizen Science Approach to an Invasive Species Survey

Caterina Scoglio
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

A Probabilistic and Network-Based Approach for the Development of Efficient Epidemic-Mitigation Strategies for the City of Chanute, Kansas

Elizabeth Fallon
Department of Kinesiology

Partnering with K-State Research and Extension to Develop and Disseminate a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Physical Activity

Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Department of History

Filling the Larder, Feeding our Families: A Chapman Center for Rural Studies History is Now Project

Spring 2009 Engagement Incentive Grants

Marcus Ashlock
Department of Communications

Why Buy Rural When I Can Get it on the Way Home

Sandra Procter
Human Nutrition

Increasing Acceptance of Food Assistance Vision Cards by Rural Kansas Groceries to Improve Resident Health and Economic Viability Within Rural Kansas Communities

Chris Petty
Graham County Extension Office

Morland Grocery Store Project - Community Awareness/Support Survey (CASS)

Fall 2008 CECD Engagement Incentive Grant Awards

Sajid Alavi
Department of Grain Science and Industry

Development and Promotion of Healthy Snack Products for School Children

Katie Kingery-Page
Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

Design Development and Implementation of the Northview Elementary Learning Garden

David Ben-Arieh
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Measuring and Analyzing Efficiency of Safety Net Clinics

Don Hedrick
Department of English

Summer Institute for Teaching: Camp Shakespeare

Spring 2008 CECD Engagement Incentive Grant Awards

Tim Frey
Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs

Technology Enhanced Collaboration — Schools and Teachers Engaged in Professional Development (TEC-STEP)

Betty Stevens
Continuing Education

Matchmaking Made Easy: Helping Jobs, Young Workers, and Trainers Find Each Other

Jane Marshall
Dept. of Hotel, Restaurant, Institution Management and Dietetics

Biscuits and Bison: Great Plains Foodways Connection Project

Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Agricultural Economics

Transportation Network Development: Leaping the Hurdles for Local Food Markets

Fall 2007 CECD Engagement Incentive Grant Awards

Lynda Bachelor
Civic Leadership

Putting the Community in Community Assessment: Public Deliberation in Assessing Social Service Assets and Needs in Manhattan, KS/Riley County

Nancy Muturi
Journalism and Mass Communication

Health Literacy for HIV/Aids Prevention among Minority Women: A Community-Based Participatory Approach

R. Michael Gros
Theatre Program

Romeo and Juliet — A Theatrical Response to Youth Violence

Ron Wilson
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development

Rural Engagement and Action Leadership, or the REAL Project

Satoris Youngcourt
Psychology

Engaging the Engagers: What Excites the University Extension Agent?

Spring 2007 funded projects

Pilot learning community at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community
Gayle Doll, PI

The development of a pilot learning community at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community, Manhattan involving K-State faculty, the retirement community, Manhattan Area Technical College, K-State Research and Extension and the Kansas Association for Homes and Services for the Aging.

Expanding Institutional Markets and Local Food Production in the Kansas River Valley
Rhonda Janke, PI

Expanding Institutional Markets and Local Food Production in the Kansas River Valley is a project to engage K-State faculty, local farmers and ranchers, and local institutional, school system and restaurant buyers to build a sustainable food system.

Building Web Site Templates to Support Rural Communities and Immigrant Populations in the Great Plains
Tom Gould and Bradley Shaw, PIs

Building Bridges with Rural Communities: Building Web Site Templates to Support Rural Communities and Immigrant Populations in the Great Plains. This project involves K-State faculty working with rural communities and immigrant populations to create useable community web sites.

Impact of Civic Discourse on Citizen Participation in the Political Process
Larry Erickson and Marie Steichen, PIs

The Impact of Civic Discourse on Citizen Participation in the Political Process will increase K-State's engagement with Kansas communities on important community issues. The project also will seek to engage community research to study the impact of public forums on citizen participation.

Fall 2006 funded projects

Technical Assistance to Urban Core Communities
Sheri Smith, PI
Engaging the Military Student Community in the K-State Academic Culture
Daryl Youngman, Donna Schenck-Hamlin and Federico Rodriguez, PIs

Ft. Riley Education Services and K-State Libraries in Partnership.

Partnerships for Healthier Kansas.
Mike Bradshaw, Elaine Johannes, and Carol Ann Holcomb, PIs
Community-based Participatory Research for Obesity Prevention and Management in Rural Kansas Latinos.
Melissa Bopp and Elizabeth Fallon, PIs