Supporting Social Innovation through Community-University Partnerships

 

Cheryl Rose

 

Cheryl Rose

Cheryl Rose is the Director, Partnerships and Projects for SiG@Waterloo

Really effective collaborations between communities and universities are of increasing interest to organizational leaders, policy-makers, students, teachers, and researchers. They have the potential to be a crucial source of social innovation in the 21st century. SiG@Waterloo has worked with five outstanding examples of such collaborations to find out what perspectives, processes and practices allow them to significantly support innovation to emerge, be sustained and to positively affect some of the most challenging problems of our time.

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Further Resources:

SiG@Waterloo

Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning

Community-Based Research Canada

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Knowledge Commons Initiative

SiG Case Study: Knowledge Generation in CU Partnerships

SiG Paper: Making a Difference (Scaling Social Innovations)

Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship

The Art and Science of cross-sector partnerships - a webinar with Ros Tennyson (slide-deck)

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