Outreach & Engagement
Community Engaged Research
The recipients of the Phase I funding for the Call for Proposals, entitled, "Understanding and Addressing Blackness and Anti-Black Racism in our Local, National, and International Communities," include 23 Principal Investigators funded at a total of $500,000 to address the pernicious ways that systemic racism impacts Black communities. Their research teams include a total of 90 researchers who will be partnering with the following community groups:
- Robles Park Village and Robles Park Tenant Council Association
- Hillsborough County Branch of the NAACP
- Carter G. Woodson African American Museum
- Florida Public Archaeology Network; Cardno; and Diamond View Studios.
- EPIC/Empath Health
- Champions for Children
- Youth Education and Development Programs (YEDP) Tampa
- Organize Florida
- Instituto Cultural Steve Biko and the 1-in-9 Campaign
- IDEA Tampa Bay
- This is My Brave (TIMB)
- WE-CARE
- Central Florida Behavioral Health Network
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc.
- BEST (Brain Expansions Scholastic Training) Academy
- Allen Temple AME Church, Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc., and the Hillsborough County Branch of the NAACP
- Booker Middle School and The Circus Arts Conservatory
- The Florida Education Fund and The McKnight Foundation
- Oakridge High School, Orlando
- Hillsborough County Public Schools
- NASA AEROKATS
- ROVER Educational Network (AREN)
- REACHUP, Inc.
- Dorothy Davis
- Rwanda Medical Research Center
- Tampa General Hospital
- St. Pete Chamber of Commerce
- St. Pete Innovation District
- Grow Smarter St. Petersburg.
- WILLMOORES, LLC
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