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4409 Indiana Clinical & Translational Science Monon Collaborative – Community Impact Hubs
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-29) Wiehe, Sarah; Craig, David M.; Wilcox, Matthew; Hardwick, Emily; Lawrence, Carrie; Schicho, Fiona; Hudson, Brenda; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Conduct an environmental scan of Marion County (Indianapolis) neighborhoods using electronic medical record data, state health data, and social and economic data. Develop strong network of community collaborators. Conduct a thorough assessment for each targeted neighborhood by listening and understanding the pressing health issues in the community and working together to design and deliver solutions. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Identify measures in the 3 domains of vulnerability, health and assets for the targeted neighborhoods and conduct bivariate descriptive statistics and multivariable regression analyses to investigate association between measures of vulnerability and health outcomes. Initiate relationships with leaders and residents in targeted neighborhoods. Locate organizations working in targeted neighborhoods through online mapping software and word-of-mouth at neighborhood events, and created a spreadsheet with contact information. Conduct multidisciplinary assessment (i.e. key informant interviews, focus groups, town hall meetings) of the targeted neighborhood. Iteratively synthesize assessments to develop areas of interest and relevance to the community. Develop a road map for solutions identified by the community. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The results from the environmental scan conducted will be displayed in a report and visual “map” of health outcomes and health determinants, including assets and barriers for the targeted neighborhoods. The research team will use results from the environmental scan coupled with listening activities including attendance at community events, key informant interviews and focus groups to develop relationships and strong collaborations with the targeted neighborhood stakeholders. The relationship building between the research team and community will provide increased trust and engagement that will further enhance the effectiveness of the assessments completed with the targeted neighborhood. The assessments will help to empower communities to develop sustainable solutions and drive future work that will lead to future grant applications and larger-scale implementation in other community impact hub neighborhoods. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Through the community impact hub work, we will develop collaborative efforts with targeted neighborhoods with the greatest health inequities in the Marion County area. In partnership with these neighborhoods, we will build a foundation – a network of community collaborators and a focused plan – upon which we will improve the health outcomes of residents while learning best practices on how to do so.
Collaborative Leadership in Social Innovation: A Leadership Framework for Tackling Wicked Public Challenges
(2023-11) Freije, Brenda Hacker; Haberski, Raymond J., Jr.; Blomquist, William A.; Craig, David M.; Hong, Youngbok
In today’s world, we regularly hear about and experience intractable, systemic social problems that seem to defy solutions. How do we engage in systems change to address them? What processes can help us deal more effectively with them? It is not enough to say we need to change their systems. We need to know how to change them and lead others in the work. This dissertation explores how leadership teams and organizations can tackle wicked public challenges by working collaboratively with stakeholders through a process of trying to understand the challenge and designing strategies to influence systems change. I offer a Leadership Framework for these efforts that puts the collaborative leader in the role of expert intermediary responsible for seven Core Functions within the Leadership Framework. As expert intermediary, the collaborative leader facilitates vision-informed and values-driven decision-making and draws on a range of leadership and problemsolving approaches with four priorities: (1) to provide a systems view and understanding of the challenge, (2) to facilitate collaborative engagement and learning from a wide range of stakeholders, (3) to consider in the design and implementation of strategies and solutions the interconnections between economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection in human flourishing, and (4) to recognize that values run through it all. I refer to the Leadership Framework and its process as Collaborative Leadership in Social Innovation. I lay out the Leadership Framework as a concept map showing the Core Functions arranged along a path with Key Actions for each Core Function and other foundational components to the path. Learning is the glue that holds the Leadership Framework together and a key output. The Leadership Framework is designed to improve decision-making about wicked public challenges by ensuring sufficient time is dedicated to the Core Functions that precede the design and implementation of strategies and solutions. Following the Leadership Framework reduces the chances that solutions will lead to unintended results, miss opportunities, or focus on solving smaller problems in siloes that get at symptoms but rarely the heart of a challenge.
Connecting Faith and Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Congregant Networks
(2020-12-15) Campbell, Meredith; Christenson, Jacob; Craig, David M.
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: People living in areas of high social vulnerability face health disparities in part due to disconnection. Health institutions recognize the importance of treating whole persons but are disconnected from local knowledge of community health assets and social and cultural barriers. People in health-challenged neighborhoods may experience disconnection and distrust in seeking the many resources and services needed for good health. Congregations are longstanding anchor institutions in marginalized communities. They build trusted relationships among members through shared values and care for wellness. Sometimes they extend these connections through on-the-ground service to neighboring communities. We hypothesize that a network of congregations can build trusted connections and share local knowledge and cultural competence to improve health outcomes and holistic wellness in vulnerable neighborhoods. METHODS: Community-engaged participatory research requires reciprocity in mapping assets, identifying priorities, narrating shared values, designing projects and messaging results. We developed mixed-methods tools to ensure community expertise drives an iterative research process. Methods include: an initial health and wellness survey, follow-up wellness interviews to collect stories and assets, an online learning community for 14 congregations with monthly focus groups, and visual maps of health data and wellness assets. RESULTS: While the study is ongoing, preliminary survey data demonstrates that congregations have local knowledge of issues affecting health and wellness among their congregants and the surrounding neighborhood. Their preexisting support for health and wellness through community outreach programs indicates building on their current network could expand their reach and improve health and wellness in vulnerable neighborhoods. CONCLUSION AND POTENTIAL IMPACT: Successful community engaged research prioritizes iterative methods that allow community participants to use their voice and tell their stories. Congregations' practice of shared values and knowledge of lived experience can forge connections for greater resilience and health supports in socially vulnerable communities.
Defining community need through the lens of the elite : a history of the Indianapolis Foundation and its funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1893-1984
(2012-11-16) Hardy, Marc Alan; Robbins, Kevin C.; Gladish, Kenneth L.; Craig, David M.; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-
This history investigates the beginnings of community foundations in general and the creation of the Indianapolis Foundation specifically and its eventual funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. My findings reveal that, contrary to previous histories that have been written, the creation of community foundations was not driven by benevolence but by changes in federal and state banking laws starting in 1913 that allowed banks to have trust departments that broke the monopoly that trust companies had long enjoyed. In response, trust company executives chartered community trusts to publicly position themselves as benevolent, community-minded businessmen. This distinguished them as trustworthy compared to the greedy bankers of the day, which helped trust companies gain trust customers. Community trusts were responsible for identifying and disbursing funds to deserving beneficiaries, thereby relieving trust companies of a costly and time consuming burden. Even more important, the trust companies retained control over the community trusts by appointing surrogate board members. In addition, none of the trust companies that chartered the Indianapolis Foundation donated their own money, yet appeared charitable. All of these factors made community foundations a very lucrative arrangement. Funding the areas of arts and culture was not designated in the Indianapolis Foundation’s original purpose statement, yet the Indiana State Symphony Society was funded at the height of the Great Depression while many Indianapolis citizens went hungry. The love of music played a very small part in efforts by the wealthy elite to garner support from the Indianapolis Foundation for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The public justifications for funding the symphony began with giving psychological relief to the citizens of Indianapolis from the pressures of the Great Depression, to the need of employment for musicians, then the importance of musical education of children, expanding to the importance of the symphony to the city’s reputation, and finally, in the 1980s, the symphony as a community asset that helped rejuvenate downtown Indianapolis. However, the real reason for funding was that the wealthy elite wanted the symphony to use as a flattering cultural institution that would elevate their social status and attract fellow elites and businesses to Indianapolis.
Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Case of Evangelicals
(2021-10) Clark, Richard S.; Craig, David M.; King, David; Steensland, Brian; Badertscher, Katherine; Guo, Chao
The focus of this study is the experiences of eight individual evangelical social entrepreneurs within their congregations. What type of legitimacy do they seek and/or receive for? Do they sense any pressure to conform/motivations to act relative to their congregation’s values/identity? Do these relationships encourage or discourage their entrepreneurial orientation/intensity and in what ways? The primary research question is “how does embeddedness in an evangelical faith community affect the experiences and expression of social entrepreneurial orientation and intensity for evangelical faith-based social entrepreneurs, if at all?” The study identifies three types of congregations in terms of their relationship to the social entrepreneurs in their communities. Two are entrepreneurial, two others are supportive, four are non-supporting. Three areas of tension emerged that highlighted the experiences of the entrepreneurs within their communities of faith in different ways and to various degrees. The first is a tension between the sacred and secular, which is a question about whether entrepreneurism is itself a sacred calling and whether sacred activities and profit motives can mix. The second tension is between differing visions of what it means to do good. This is fundamentally about diagnosing the problem efforts at doing good are attempting to ameliorate. The entrepreneurs in this study generally agree that the problem is both personal and societal and requires a holistic transformational approach to discipleship and social entrepreneurship. The final tension is between institutionalism vs. movements. Movements tend to be somewhat chaotic and allow freedom for adherents to take risks and test ideas whereas institutions tend to restrict and control in the interest of preserving focus on mission. A key finding is that regardless of the posture of the various churches, the entrepreneurs in every circumstance maintained their social entrepreneurial orientation. If they could not find support for their entrepreneurial efforts within their existing community of faith they may or may not continue to maintain the same level of commitment to that community while seeking support elsewhere, but in all cases, their level of entrepreneurism remained high.
GREEN HOUSING IN CENTRAL INDIANA: THE OBSTACLES OF AWARENESS—CHANGES TO SUSTAIN THE FUTURE
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Mohlke, Sarah R.; Craig, David M.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney once said that “conservation may be a sign of personal virtue,” but it is not a basis for “sound, comprehensive” policy. My research on “green” housing initiatives and policies in the United States leads to a different conclusion. Without changes to housing policy, green housing cannot become mainstream. Nevertheless, those policy changes likely depend on personal changes in Americans’ ethical visions of the good life and cultural ideas about the built environment. Since the 2006 launch of the LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) system of certifying buildings as “green,” there have been only 69 LEED certified projects in Indiana. Indiana is ranked 26/50 for number of LEED buildings in the country by state, and Indianapolis is ranked 32/50 by city. Furthermore, the state of Indiana has only one policy concerning LEED buildings, and all Indiana cities combined have only four policies. Compared to nearby states, Indiana is far behind. Based on a case study of Michael Reynolds (the creator of Earthships), an interview with a local Earthship builder/owner, and an analysis of LEED certification standards and city, state, and federal building codes, I address the policy, cultural, and ethical obstacles to building more green housing in central Indiana. My research suggests that overcoming personal obstacles is the first step, as the individualistic nature of American society, the focus on economic gain and comfort, our ideals of “the good life,” and the scary nature of change, all prevent central Indiana from adopting and promoting “greener” building techniques. By changing the ways in which Americans think about their cultural and ethical existence, we can become more optimistic when considering policy and code changes.
Health Equity, Urban Congregations, and HIP
(Indiana Minority Health Coalition, 2019-10) Craig, David M.; Hicks, Ivan Douglas; Green, Andrew; Meschi, Maria; Napier, Pamela; Patterson, Stephanie; Armstrong, George; Schicho, Fiona; Wilcox, Matthew
Investing Public and Philanthropic Values in the Social Good of Health Care
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Craig, David M.
As the national debate over health care reform continues, Americans are being asked what values they want the health care system to serve. With health care costs rising steadily, conservative proponents of consumer-directed health care and other market reforms champion the economic values of efficiency, innovation, transparency, and choice. Liberal advocates of the Affordable Care Act emphasize shared responsibilities for greater equity in insurance coverage and benefits and more affordability through public subsidies for low- to moderate-income Americans. In fact, health care in the United States has been organized around a range of values that are frequently in tension with one another. Using qualitative interviews conducted at religiously-affiliated health care organizations, this study identifies and assesses the values of excellence, innovation, compassion, solidarity, efficiency, and stewardship as foundational values of U.S. health care. Missing from today’s debate is a historical and practical understanding how these values have been invested in the training, delivery, and financing structures built up through decades of public policy and philanthropic initiatives by nonprofit providers. As a result, health care today is not a private good or a public good, but a social good. As escalating health costs absorb more of family income and government budgets, Americans need to take stock of the full range of health care values to create a different and more affordable community-based health care system.
Navigating Identity through Philanthropy: A History of the Islamic Society of North America (1979 - 2008)
(2014) Siddiqui, Shariq Ahmed; Craig, David M.; Burlingame, Dwight; Curtis IV, Edward E.; Sinno, Abdulkader H., 1971-
This dissertation analyzes the development of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim-American religious association, from the Iranian Revolution to the inauguration of our nation's first African-American president. This case study of ISNA, the largest Muslim-American organization in North America, examines the organization's institution-building and governance as a way to illustrate Muslim-American civic and religious participation. Using nonprofit research and theory related to issues of diversity, legitimacy, power, and nonprofit governance and management, I challenge misconceptions about ISNA and dispel a number of myths about Muslim Americans and their institutions. In addition, I investigate the experiences of Muslim-Americans as they attempted to translate faith into practice within the framework of the American religious and civic experience. I arrive at three main conclusions. First, because of their incredible diversity, Muslim-Americans are largely cultural pluralists. They draw from each other and our national culture to develop their religious identity and values. Second, a nonprofit association that embraces the values of a liberal democracy by establishing itself as an open organization will include members that may damage the organization's reputation. I argue that ISNA's values should be assessed in light of its programs and actions rather than the views of a small portion of its membership. Reviewing the organization's actions and programs helps us discover a religious association that is centered on American civic and religious values. Third, ISNA's leaders were unable to balance their desire for an open, consensus-based organization with a strong nonprofit management power structure. Effective nonprofit associations need their boards, volunteers and staff to have well-defined roles and authority. ISNA's leaders failed to adopt such a management and governance structure because of their suspicion of an empowered chief executive officer.
Public Scholarship at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
(2016-06) Wood, Elizabeth; Hong, Youngbok; Price, Mary F.; Stanton-Nichols, Kathleen; Hatcher, Julie A.; Craig, David M.; Kelly, Jason M.; Silverman, Ross D.; Palmer, Kristi L.
Community engagement is a defining attribute of the campus, and the current Strategic Plan identifies a number of strategic actions to “Deepen our Commitment to Community Engagement.” In May 2015, A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Public Scholarship was established in May, 2015 to address the campus strategic goals to “recognize and reward contributions to community engagement” and “define community engagement work…in Faculty Annual Reports and promotion and tenure guidelines.” At IUPUI, scholarly work occurs in research and creative activity, teaching, and/or service. In terms of promotion and tenure, faculty members must declare an area of excellence in one of these three domains. The FLC on Public Scholarship is a 3-year initiative co-sponsored by Academic Affairs and the Center for Service and Learning (CSL). Seven faculty members from across campus were selected to be part of the 2015-2016 FLC, and two co-chairs worked closely with CSL staff to plan and facilitate the ongoing work. The FLC is charged with defining public scholarship, identifying criteria to evaluate this type of scholarship, assist faculty in documenting their community-engaged work, and working with department Chairs and Deans in adapting criteria into promotion and tenure materials. The intended audiences for this work includes faculty, community-engaged scholars, public scholars, promotion and tenure committees, external reviewers, and department Chairs and Deans. The following provides background to the campus context and a brief summary of work to date, including definition and proposed criteria to evaluate public scholarship.

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