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Item Building a Movement Through Partnerships and Public Engagement:One Organization, Many Communities, and a Landfill(2018-07-10) Guzenski, Nicole; Shepard, Michael; Walker, Thomas; Eleuterio, Sue; MA in Cultural SustainabilityThis reflective paper will explain and summarize a community engagement capstone project focused on building a partnership with Friends of Lackawanna (FOL), an organization that has been developed in order to oppose a 50 year expansion proposed by the Keystone Sanitary Landfill (KSL) in Dunmore and Throop, Pennsylvania. The expansion would add about 106 million tons of waste to the landfill’s capacity, making the physical height of the landfill about 220 feet higher than its current height. Local residents have expressed concerned over the landfill’s traffic, pollution, effects on air quality, and the overall impacts to the health of residents and the environment. The capstone project’s mission was to develop more opportunities for the Friends of Lackawanna to engage the community around the topic of waste, the environment, and the issue of the landfill while also increasing the organization’s outreach. This paper outlines, reflects, and analyzes the methods of engagement used to create social awareness around the issues within the context representative of the organization’s (FOL) commitment to community organizing. The project worked to incorporate various ways to use public engagement tied to the proposed expansion of the KSL landfill such as a children’s art exhibit, engaging youth to act as leaders by sharing their stories and creating art as part of a local workshop, and an outdoor, environmentally focused fair. The project explored ways to implement and increase tools or strategies for FOL in order to engage deeper with community members by demonstrating the importance of partnerships and the development of social networks. Throughout this project I discovered various ways that FOL can work to increase visibility and support through active governance and stewardship with community by reviewing their community engagement efforts and partnerships with local residents, organizations, and agencies. I also developed an organizational history and timeline of indicators of FOL’s work. This helped the project determine recommendations that align with the organization’s mission and aid in the progress of the achieving their goals. The organizational history helped in demonstrating ways that community members have engaged or needed to engage with the organization and determine what roles FOL plays within the community. My reflective responses and collections are documented through photographs and an Internet based, password protected, blog. The purpose of the blog was to serve as ongoing journal to store experiences, stories, reflections, ideas, and photographs. It also serves as a way to demonstrate the various partnerships which were created to plan public events and local activities, which were an integral part of this project. The blog contains outside links to organizations, partners, and events in order to showcase local collaborations which supported the project’s work. The blog was also created to serve the Cultural Sustainability community and its students, so that they will be able see and read what a capstone project entails in order to provide guidance and to improve upon the uses and implementation of a graduate project for their community and future work.Item Designed for Empowerment: A Teacher’s Transformation(2021-04-27) Steinhauer, Sarah; Eleuterio, Susan; Bernstein, Andrew; Digital ArtsAn art educator finds herself in the throes of a professional crisis, a viral pandemic, and an identity revelation while working through the last stages of earning graduate degrees in Digital Arts and Art and Technology. Her thought processes as a teacher and a designer overlap as she seeks to find creative solutions to address these challenges. She uses a design-thinking approach to develop a virtual community of educators in order to find connection, support, agency, and ultimately a new meaning in the fields of education and design. Using personal narrative paired with excerpts from relevant sources, this is a work of reflection on a journey of rebuilding oneself while building something new.Item Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Schedule H and Hospital Community Benefit—Opportunities and Challenges for the States(The Hilltop Institute, 2012-10) Barnett, Kevin; Somerville, Martha H.This issue brief, the fourth in a series published by Hilltop’s Hospital Community Benefit Program, is a collaboration between Kevin Barnett, DrPH, MCP, Senior Investigator at the Public Health Institute, and Martha Somerville, JD, MPH, Hilltop’s Hospital Community Benefit Program Director. It discusses key federal community benefit reporting requirements developed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as Form 990, Schedule H and explores the opportunities and challenges these present to state officials and policymakers, both as a reporting framework and as an informational resource.The other issue briefs in the Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA series are The Emerging Federal Framework, Building on State Experience, Partnerships for Community Health Improvement, and Community Building and the Root Causes of Poor Health.