The Community Academy Application
Thank you for your interest in participating in The Community Academy: Strengthening Engagement. Stanford Law School along with colleagues from the Ohio State University’s Divided Community Project (DCP), the National Civic League, and Fordham Law, are hosting similarly situated leaders to design and implement strategies to address polarizing community dynamics. This Stanford Law School Community Academy event presents an opportunity to work with dispute systems design experts from across the country and collaborators from across the metropolitan area.

Please complete this application regarding your community's interest in attending the Academy.  The Gould Center will evaluate applications based on 1) leadership team composition, 2) commitment, and  3) need.

If you have any questions about the Academy, please take a look at the Academy website or email the Gould Center's administrator AnaMaria Ponce at [email protected]

Applications are due by June 28, 2024.  Communities who are unable to meet the June 28 deadline may request an extension by emailing [email protected] by June 26.
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Who is your primary point of contact (Name, Title, Organization)?

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Leadership Team Composition

3500 character maximum – Describe the “core leaders” from your community who will attend the September 2024 Academy.  

Ideally, a core leadership group should include two representatives from municipal infrastructure (ideally a high-ranking police official and a city manager or the equivalent), two representatives from the local non-profit community, two community advocates, a member of a religious organization, and a representative from an educational institution.

Please describe affiliations and capacities of proposed attendees, and existing working relationships among the group members. The core leadership team should include people who have the power to encourage, initiate, and/or implement changes in policy or practice.  If possible, the core leadership group should include people who are directly affected by the issue(s) causing tension or division.  You may also want to consider including people who can help sustain the work going forward.

Commitment

3500 character maximum – Describe the commitment of the core leadership group and related organizations to convening broad-based community planning efforts designed to identify and address issues that polarize the community.  

Applicants should tentatively articulate how the core leadership group will begin convening broad-based community planning efforts to identify and address issues that polarize the community.

Applicants should further commit to working with the Academy Hosts in the following ways: 1) in advance of the Academy by meeting to discuss questions from the Hosts aimed at ensuring the Academy is tailored to meet the needs of each core leadership group and 2) following the Academy in order to implement initiatives aimed at addressing community polarization.
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Need

5000 character maximum – Describe your community’s need for broad-based community planning.  Briefly identify historically divisive issues in the community, current issues polarizing the community, and issues which you anticipate the community might face.  These may include long-standing issues that have created tension for years, as well as tension that has erupted into volatile conflict more recently.

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