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Outreach>>University Neighborhood Partners
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University Neighborhood Partners General Support Help fulfill a U of U core strategy of engaging communities to improve health and quality of life, and elevate the values that led to the creation of UNP in 2001. UNP collaborates with SLC's west side residents, organizations, and institutions to build partnerships with the University that increase educational success and access to higher education. Partnerships focus on Ed Pathways, Community Capacity & Wellbeing, and Community Leadership in the most rapidly diversifying neighborhoods in Utah. |
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University Neighborhood Partners Education Pathways UNP's Education Pathways partnerships create equitable family-school partnerships focused on school improvement and student growth; Provide parents with increased capacity to advocate for themselves, their families, and their communities; Foster school cultures that are welcoming to families, support family and youth cultures, and promote pathways to higher education; and Encourage young people to take on leadership roles in effectively defining and addressing personal trajectories and community |
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UNP Community Leadership Partnerships UNP's Community Leadership partnerships: Provide residents with opportunities to strengthen and practice leadership skills; Enhance resident capacity to organize others around community-identified issues; and Connect residents with decision-making positions through which they can begin to change the systems that effect their lives. Featured partnership initiatives include the Westside Leadership Institute, Startup Incubator, Neighorhood Democracy, West View Media, and more. |
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UNP Community Capacity & Wellbeing Partnerships UNP's Capacity & Wellbeing partnerships: Connect individuals and families with their local community, community organizations, and the larger systems that affect their lives;Engage residents and community groups in expanding their capacity to implement research, teaching, and other practices in partnership with, and informed by, the communities in which they work; and ensure that individual and family residents have the resources, access, information, and opportunities needed for education. |
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University Neighborhood Partners Wolf/Meritus Scholarship Fund Between five and eight $2,000 to $3,000 scholarships are awarded annually to students from Salt Lake City west side neighborhoods. Preference is given to applicants who are first-generation college students and who show strong potential. A majority of previous recipients have come from refugee and immigrant backgrounds. |
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