The Signature Partnership Initiative Faculty Grant (SPIF) is an initiative to foster UofL faculty and staff initiatives within the west Louisville community.  This grant mechanism will focus on infrastructure development, research and non-research projects which hold a community participatory action perspective.  A total of $25,000 is available for the 2008-2010 academic years.  Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate multidisciplinary collaboration.  All grant applications will require a west Louisville community collaborator (individual, group or organization) to be competitive.

Applications must identify and address one or more of the Signature Partnership focus areas.

Timeline is as follows:

• Grant announcement - Friday, December 19, 2008
• Application deadline - Friday, April 17, 2009
• Selection of winners - Friday, May 8, 2009

Winners will be required to attend the Tuesday, May 26, 2009 University Community Partnership Advisory Board meeting for official announcement of the award.

Faculty are encouraged to consider the interest & needs of the community as identified by the Signature Partnership Resident Advisory Council at their strategic planning retreat held on November 1, 2008.

Identified Interest & Needs

1. Enjoying arts, culture and recreation
2. Developing co-op businesses as a means of growing a vibrant economy
3. Closing the achievement gap
4. Keeping the community safe
5. Sustaining a healthy community
6. Promoting social well-being and harmony

SPIF Grant Application (Word document)

2009 Signature Partnership Initiative Faculty Grant Awardees

Lauren Heberle, Ph.D.  

Award Amount $5,000

Irene Litvan, M.D.

Development of a Questionnaire to Study Barriers to healthcare access and impediments to participation in clinical research in residents for West Louisville

Award Amount $11,500

Barbara Stetson, Ph.D.

Assessment of Psychosocial and community-environmental aspects of diabetes awareness, self-care behaviors and health in African American men in Louisville's west end.  An extension of the Louisville Men's Health Initiative (AMEN) program.

Award amount $9,000

View the project summary for each funded SPIF grant