Community/University Partnership grants support limited-term projects, events, and activities that promote partnerships between UWM and the diverse communities it serves. These grants help to provide UWM students unique opportunities for community involvement through service learning and other engagement activities. The partnership grants encourage new forms of community-UWM cooperation that use innovative methods of teaching and learning that promote one or more of the following:

• Cross-cultural literacy
• Local/Global perspectives on social and artistic issues
• The relationship of science to culture and society
• Social justice through community development
• Environmental initiatives
• Gender issues
• Immigration issues
• Religious pluralism
• Community health and wellbeing
  

Funding Priorities 

This year’s CUP priority seeks to integrate community and academic knowledge by funding projects in the following areas:

• Improving quality of life while respecting the natural environment;
  
• Supporting the aging processes as a natural development of changing lifestyles and changing physical capabilities;
• Supporting community well-being and/or
• Addressing health disparities.