Continuing Education - Community Partnership Project

This Month With CPP

Join us in November for conversations, explorations of current issues, and the opportunity to meet local leaders in the field of community building.

November 18 Brown Bag Series — Housing Strategies as Part of Community Renewal Effort, with guest speaker:
- Kimberly McKinney, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis
December 1st deadline for application to the Community Building Fellows program.

Neighborhood Leadership Academy

The Neighborhood Leadership Academy provides hands-on leadership training that emphasizes community building principles, organizational leadership and management practices, and personal leadership skills. Created in 2002 as part of UMSL's outreach to the St. Louis community, the Neighborhood Leadership Academy connects resources at the university — the Community Partnership Project, the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program, and University Extension — to residents and neighborhoods interested in creating more livable communities.

Fellowship Program

The Community Partnership Project at the University of Missouri-St. Louis annually recruits students who are interested in pursuing future careers in community development and community building to participate in the Community Building Fellowship Program.

Resources

The Community Partnership Project provides support for Faculty in developing links with St. Louis area resources and organizations, and helps Students interested in connecting with St. Louis communities. We also publish a Community Tool Kit made up of more than 20 tools related to outreach, action planning, collaboration, building consensus, and more.

Old North Healthy Community Initiative

Good Eats in Old North

Cultivating a Sustainable Neighborhood by Increasing Access to Healthy Foods

In the News: Learn more about this initiative in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article and a University of Missouri Extension video.

People flourish when they live in communities with parks, community gardens, access to nutritious food, and neighbors who know and support one another. Healthy and sustainable neighborhoods require healthy environments--public transit, grocery stores, schools, parks, and workplaces. The location of food resources and the built environment affects people’s ability to access healthy foods and incorporate physical activity in order to live a healthy life.

Affton First-Suburb Housing Initiative

Affton: A First Suburb in Transition

Across the country, municipalities and county governments are paying attention to the state of first suburbs. A first suburb is an older community in the inner-ring, outside of a major central city. What makes an inner-ring suburb a "first" suburb is that newer suburbs developed along the same pattern, but farther away from the central core. Great location and a diverse population, including an increase in the immigrant population, are assets of first suburbs. However, these communities are quickly beginning to face the challenges that are already present in central cores including an aging population, aging housing stock, struggling business district, and a mostly built-out environment.