Request for Proposals to participate in the Community Food Security (CFS) hub of the
CFICE project, 2013-2014
Have you been engaged in a community/academic collaboration within the Canadian
food movement, or do you facilitate collaboration between community organizations
and universities/colleges? Are you interested in evaluating your experiences and sharing
the results, including the barriers you face, how they are overcome, and what you’ve
learned about collaboration in the process?
The Community Food Security hub is one element of Community First: Impacts of
Community Engagement (CFICE pronounced “suffice”). This is a multi-year research
project based out of Carleton University in Ottawa, in partnership with a number of
community organizations. Its overall goal is to foster community-campus engagement
that is designed and implemented in ways that maximize the value created for non-profit
community-based organizations. (For more details:
http://www6.carleton.ca/communityfirst/)
The core partners of the Community Food Security (CFS) hub of CFICE are Food Secure
Canada and the Canadian Association for Food Studies. We define community food
security broadly to include all those activities that strengthen our food systems,
including but not limited to those that seek to address hunger in our communities, that
focus on food issues to enhance well-being through public health and address ecological
food system sustainability, and that enable communities (including Aboriginal
communities) to assert their food sovereignty.
For each of the next three years, the CFS hub of CFICE is able to provide $5000 of
funding for up to four demonstration projects that help explore the design and
implementation of community/academic collaboration for advancing the food
movement in Canada. We are seeking existing (or fledgling) collaborations between
community organizations and colleges or universities in Canada. These projects can be
focused on research or community service (e.g., community service learning), and can
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involve working with individual professors, graduate students, or entire classes of
undergraduate or college students.
CFICE funding for this year1 is not intended to be the core funding to support the
creation of a brand-new partnerships (which must demonstrate other sources of funding
or in-kind support). Rather, CFICE funds allows for an extension of the work2 and an
evaluation of impacts of ongoing or recently completed projects on communities, on
students, on faculty, etc. including consideration of how community-campus
partnerships could be made more effective (e.g. through an examination of possible
institutional changes). The CFS hub may also provide additional funding to enable one or
more project partners to attend conferences to share the results of their work (e.g.,
Canadian Association for Food Studies or Food Secure Canada meetings).
Projects funded should demonstrate how they will help us address the core CFICE
research question:
• “How can community-campus engagement, including community service learning
(CSL) and community-based research (CBR), be designed and implemented in ways that
maximize the value created for non-profit community-based organizations?”
(For a list of research sub-questions which your projects may seek to address, see
http://foodsecurecanada.org/cfs-hub-request-proposals )
Each project should also demonstrate that it is contributing to the Canadian food
movement in a way that aligns with at least one of the three central goals of Food
Secure Canada:
- Zero Hunger
- Healthy and Safe Food
- Sustainable Food Systems
We are particularly interested in projects designed to provide a stronger evidence base
for Food Secure Canada’s policy agenda (e.g. one or more of the policies identified in the
People’s Food Policy).
For examples of past projects funded by the Community Food Security hub of CFICE, see
our page on the Food Secure Canada website.
1 In
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future rounds of funding, we do hope to support NEW projects, so stay tuned!
Extending work may include undertaking new case studies, or revisiting results and
knowledge dissemination, as long as the key collaborating organizations have worked
together before.
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Timeline:
Call for Proposals: May 31, 2013
Applications due: June 30, 2013
Decisions made by: July 31, 2013
Workplans and ethics applications submitted by: August 31, 2013
Project execution: September- April, 2013
Contact Information:
Abra Brynne, Food Secure Canada
e-mail: abra@foodsecurecanada.org
phone: 250.352.5342 (pacific time zone)
Application (2-3 pages):
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Who are the core partners involved in your project? (names, contact info, roles)
(Please specify who is to be main contact person)
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What are the main goals of your collaboration? How do these goals align with the
core goals of FSC noted above? What parts of the work do you hope to support
through CFICE funding?
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Who will benefit from this work? What do you think would be of most interest to
other activists or academics working in the Canadian food movement?

How would an evaluation of your work help address the core CFICE research
question? Which of the CFICE sub-questions will your project address?
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How do you plan to approach the evaluation of your collaboration? If you have a
specific evaluation framework in mind, describe it here. Otherwise, please
explain how you want to review and reflect on the work you are doing and its
impacts in order to learn from it. Have you already evaluated aspects of this work
in the past? If so, how will you integrate the findings of previous evaluations into
this next phase of evaluation?
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Proposed use of $5000 budget (e.g. paying for a workshop or focus group, hiring
a graduate student research assistant, hiring a consultant, travel, etc.)?
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What other resources do you or your partners bring to this work (cash and/or inkind contributions)?
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