Neighborhood Resilience Initiative
The resilience initiative is a partnership between the City and County of San Francisco 's Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN), San Francisco State University 's Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE) to address critical issues defined by residents living in San Francisco's neighborhoods. Founded in 2009, the initiative is an alliance of academic and governmental organizations whose mission is to partner with neighborhood stakeholders as they design and implement community resilience strategies. By streamlining access to their academic assets and deploying them in a tactical manner in alliance to community driven planning process, this partnership is able to achieve cumulatively stronger outcomes for the neighborhoods they engage. Academic partners provide essential technical support for the Empowered Communities Program (ECP) and its toolkit.
ENGAGED LEARNING ZONES (ELZ)
Engaged Learning Zones are multi-year, place-based projects that focus university resources on a specific community in order to increase their leadership capacities.
Our first ELZ in District 11 enjoys strong support from San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos's office and the Mayor's Office of Housing/ Community Development. CSL students mapped local resources; interviewed stakeholders to help identify short and long term needs, and then supported the development and implementation of plans that can help build a more vibrant, economically robust, and socially inclusive City. Read more about the work we have been doing in D11 and D3 in the document below.
The Table of Contents and Executive Summary of our 46-page ELZ report is available in the pdf below.To receive a full pdf copy of the Report, please email Jen Gasang at jlgasang@sfsu.edu
Spring 2013, ICCE developed a Community Action Guide in order to help others who may not have experience in community-building duplicate some of the methods we used to build awareness for action and advocacy in their communities. Since each institution, program, and/or neighborhood has its own characteristics, the Guide is meant to offer fundamental instructions only. We hope that university/community partnerships such as the ones SF State has established and cultivated will add to the body of knowledge about what it means to be an engaged university.
AY 2017-18 Community Resilience Interns
- Neftali Rubio-Mills: College of Health & Social Sciences. MPA candidate
- Lea Troeh: College of Health & Social Sciences. MPA candidate
Update: Now accepting applications for PAID internship
- Deadline: Friday, September 8, 2017 by 5pm
- Paid Internship Announcement
Current Positions of Past Interns & Graduate Assistants
|
NAME |
YEAR |
MAJOR |
CURRENT POSITION |
| Eunice Kim | sum 2017 | MPA | |
| Celia Moreno | 2016-2017 | Political Science | Civic Tech Fellow, Microsoft |
| Rafaela Bradvica | 2016-2017 | International Relations, MA | |
| Nico Popowich | spring 2017 | MPA | |
| Tre Allen | spring 2017 | MPA | Deputy Program Manager, NEN, SF City Administrator's Office |
|
Shana Love |
2015-2016 |
MPA |
Community and Recruitment Manager, CORO Northern CA |
|
Sarah Heady |
2016 |
MFA |
Senior Grants Writer, California Institute of Integral Studies |
|
Homa Ahmed |
2015-16 |
International Relations, MA |
NA |
|
Trevor Cook |
2015-16 |
MPA |
Program Coordinator, Assist International |
|
Jill Huinder |
2015-16 |
Natl. Park & Tourism Management |
Program Development and Researcher Indigenous People Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative |
|
Amanda Trescott |
2015-16 |
MPA |
Management Fellow, San Mateo County, CA |
|
Jeffrey Thorsby |
2015 |
MPA |
Analyst, Nevada County Health & Human Services Agency |
|
Matt Channing |
2014 |
MPA |
Administrative Intern, Oakland, CA |
|
Kristin Barrera |
2014 |
MPA |
Management Fellow, LEAP Institute, San Mateo County, CA |
|
David Prigge |
2012 |
MS, Geography |
NA |
|
Alicia Pisani |
2011-13 |
USP, BA |
NA |
|
Charles MacNulty |
2011-12 |
MPA |
Program Development and Data Specialist, Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development |
|
Kevin Holt |
2011-12 |
MS, Counseling |
ESL / TOEFL Teacher & International Student Counseling Specialist, The Ardmore Group, Inc |
|
Erin Campion |
2011-12 |
MA, English Composition |
Corporate Communications Manager, Recology |
|
Luis Figueroa |
2011-12 |
Political Science, BA |
Director, Regional & Community Engagement, Teach for America |
|
Lorelei Penera |
2011 |
MPA |
Account Manager & Research Assistant, ICF International |
|
Holly Szafarek |
2010-11 |
MPA |
Project Manager, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
|
Erin Lingren |
2010-11 |
MPA |
Grants Manager, Pacific Foundation Services |
|
Samantha Roxas |
2010-11 |
International Relations, BA |
Senior Legislative Aide, City County SF |
|
Amee Walden Bearne |
2010-11 |
Political Science, BA |
Community Programs Director, CHEER (Community Health & Empowerment through Education and Research) |
|
Christopher Zepeda |
2010 |
English Literature, MA |
NA |
|
Ben Linzer |
2009-11 |
Organizational Communication, MA |
Lecturer, SF State University & Consultant, Linzer Coaching |
|
Michael Kasian |
2009-11 |
Communication Studies, MA |
Editor, Healthline Media |
|
Brett Greenbaum |
2009-10 |
MBA |
Social Media Manager, Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce and Visitors’ Bureau |
|
Doris Barone (Padilla) |
2009-11 |
MPA |
Emergency Services Coordinator, Department of Emergency Management, City and County of San Francisco, CA |
|
Mei Lin Huang |
2009-11 |
Dietetics, BS |
Outreach Specialist for Go Folic! Project at San Francisco Department of Public Health |
We greatly acknowledge the following organizations for their significant support in making this program possible:
CSU Chancellor's Call to Service Initiative