Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.84
Liaison Andrew Horning
Submission Date Dec. 19, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Michigan
EN-10: Community Partnerships

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Andrew Horning
Managing Director
Graham Sustainability Institute
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1st Partnership 

Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability :
SEAS Sustainability Clinic

Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? :
Yes

Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe?:
Multi-year or ongoing

Which of the following best describes the partnership?:
Sustainability-focused

Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? :
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability:
SEAS Sustainability Clinic - with a goal to improve the ability of the City of Detroit and nonprofits serving the City to address the impacts of climate change on the natural and built environment, human health, and the city’s finances—while working to enhance sustainability policy and action. By using a single-point-of-contact approach, the Clinic will connect Detroit residents, non-profit organizations, businesses and city government to resources and expertise available through the School for Environmnent and Sustainability (SEAS) Sustainability Clinic. This will allow for easier and durable access to collaborators, master’s students, internships, and projects that provide the capacity to produce real, tangible, and lasting results for Detroit residents and their communities.
http://seas.umich.edu/clinic

2nd Partnership

Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
Detroit Urban Research Center

Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (2nd partnership):
Yes

Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (2nd partnership):
Multi-year or ongoing

Which of the following best describes the partnership’s sustainability focus? (2nd partnership):
Sustainability-related

Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (2nd partnership):
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
The Detroit URC is an interdisciplinary, community-based participatory research (CBPR)
partnership that equitably engages community-based organizations, health service institutions and academia to create research, programs and policies to improve health equity in Detroit. Based on our mission, for more than 20 years the Detroit URC and
affiliated partnerships, building upon community resources and strengths, have enhanced understanding of the relationship between the social and physical environmental determinants of health, and translated the knowledge gained into public health interventions and policies that have resulted in improved health status and reduced health risk factors.
http://www.detroiturc.org/
https://www.detroiturc.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Detroit%20URC%20Fact%20Sheet_August2021_0.pdf

3rd Partnership 

Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
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Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (3rd partnership):
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Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (3rd partnership):
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Which of the following best describes the partnership? (3rd partnership):
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Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (3rd partnership):
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A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
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Optional Fields 

A brief description of the institution’s other community partnerships to advance sustainability:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s community partnerships to advance sustainability is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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