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Engagement of Communities

Contact

Jeffery T. Walker, PhD
jeffw@uab.edu
Director, UAB Center for the Study of Community Health

Clifford Kennon, EdS, MPA, CPP
ckennon@uab.edu
Program Director, Engagement of Communities

  • 2018
    • Brother Let's Talk, $6,000
    • STRONGParent Group: A Community Support Initiative, $8,000
    • STREAM Innovations, $20,000
    • Bush Hills Connections Community Garden, $22,200
  • 2017
    • Community Investment Network, $12,000
    • Project Possible, Inc., $6,800
    • Westminster Presbyterian Church, $16,200
    • Real Life Poets, $25,000
    • Growing Kings, Inc, $10,000
    • What I Learned at Home, At Home Foundation Inc., $15,000
  • 2015
    • Earn-A-Bike Program, Redemptive Cyle, $25,000
    • Mosaic Mental Health Project, No More Martyrs, $25,000
    • Woodlawn Connection, Woodlawn High School and Jones Valley Teaching Farm, $17,000
    • Bib and Tucker Sew Op, $13,000

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  • 2014
    • The Color Project, We are "Rtists", $14,500
    • WE Eat Cafe, Urban Ministry, Inc., $12,500
    • MAN CAVE, Alpha Omega Group, $10,000
    • Frist Responders Youth Training Program, The Dannon Projects and Lemax Sports Medicine Group, $5,000
    • Walk To...APP, Black People Run Bike & Swimm, $14,500
    • Be Heart Smart, Act Now, American Heart Association/Birmingham Black Nurses Association, $10,000
    • Oasis Produce Pantry, The Foundry, $10,000
  • 2013
    • NHabit Bush Hills, Bush Hills Neighborhood Association, $15,000
    • Community Carpentry Project, Inglenook Neighborhood Association, $25,000
    • New Rising Star Family Style Fitness Program, New Rising Star Baptist Church Community Development Corporation, $10,000
    • Spark to the Park, Oakwood Neighborhood Association, $10,000
    • Walk Birmingham!, Freshwater Land Trust, $5,000
  • 2012
    • Beauty in Knowing, AIDS Alabama, $15,000
    • Operation Brightside, Friends of West End, Inc., $5,000
    • Norwood Learning Gardens, Norwood Resource Center, $25,000
    • Walking Bus Project, UAB Department of Sociology, $5,000

Learn more about our CHIA recipients: 

"Local Community Growing Roots" Weld, March 5, 2013 (CHIA 2012)
"Community Innovation Gets a Boost" UAB Magazine, April 9, 2015 (CHIA 2013)
UAB Grant Provides Food to Needy Children (CHIA 2014)
Congratulations 2015 CHIA Winners! (CHIA 2015)
CCTS Hosts Community Health Innovation Awards Reception (CHIA 2017)
CCTS Announces CHIA 2018 Grantees (CHIA 2018)

Contact

Jeffery T. Walker, PhD
jeffw@uab.edu
Director, UAB Center for the Study of Community Health

Clifford Kennon, EdS, MPA, CPP
ckennon@uab.edu
Program Director, Engagement of Communities