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Section II: Commitment Information
Please limit your responses to 125 words or less per question. Attachments should not exceed one page in length.
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1. Please describe your Commitment to Action and its objective(s).
2. What progress has your Commitment to Action achieved since inception?
3. What need does your Commitment to Action address and why is it significant?
4. What specific experience have you had, in or out of the classroom, to prepare you to effectively implement your Commitment to Action? What relationships have you developed to provide necessary skills or expertise?
5. What relationships have you developed, on- and off-campus, to advance your Commitment to Action? Have you received statements of support from your university community and/or your target communities?
6. Who are the key stakeholders in your Commitment to Action? How have you involved them and how are you ensuring that your commitment responds to their needs?
7. What is the budget for your Commitment to Action? Please list the anticipated expenditures and sources/quantities of income and support.
In 125 words or less, please describe how your Commitment to Action addresses each of the award criteria: sustainability, impact, innovation, potential for replication, and leverage.
1. Commitments to Action should integrate principles of sustainability defined broadly to include environmental, social, and economic components.
Will your Commitment to Action advance environmental efforts on your campus or in the community, and if so, how? Will the commitment be able to sustain itself over time without requiring continuous external support, and if so how? Does this commitment promote environmentally sound economic development, and if so, how?
2. Impact: Commitments to Action should have a measurable and lasting impact on pressing challenges.
What are the desired, realistic, long-term outcomes that your Commitment to Action will produce, and how will you measure your progress? Please be specific.
3. Innovation: Commitments to Action should approach challenges in unique and/or novel ways.
In what ways is your Commitment to Action innovative? How does your approach differ from or build upon the approach of others, and why is it more effective?
4. Potential for replication: Commitments to Action should be replicable and scalable.
Please describe the potential for scaling-up your Commitment to Action on other campuses or in other regions. Is there potential for involving additional campuses, communities, or organizations to expand the impact of your commitment over time (at reasonable cost)?
5. Leverage: CGI U values Commitments to Action that leverage resources available on university campuses and in communities.
What institutional resources will you use to complete your Commitment to Action? How is the implementation of this commitment uniquely suited for a university setting? How are you effectively involving your university community?
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