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This space is for Cal Athletics student-athletes, community partners, and staff who want to contribute to and collaborate with our community!
The Team-Based Community Engagement Cycle supports a team through a guided process of community engagement to identify a service collaboration that meets both team-defined interests and a community-defined goal, and makes a positive contribution within our campus or East Bay Community.
The Cameron Institute serves as an intermediary between teams and partners to coordinate and scope projects and partnerships. This tailored series follows the “learn-plan-do-reflect” cycle of community-centered engagement.
The Model: Learn, Connect, Contribute, Reflect
The Model: Learn, Connect, Contribute, Reflect
Teams have the opportunity to opt-into engage in a cycle of community-centered collaboration and engagement. Teams learn about their interests, and issues in our community, connect with those closest to the issue, contribute and collaborate, and then reflect on learnings, impact, and next-steps for engagement.
Step 1: Learn
Reflect on individual interests
Learn about team interests
Learn about your community
Step 2: Connect
Connect with community partners most proximate the issue, with local knowledge
Learn about assets, strengths, and needs/opportunities within the community
Plan a meaningful service engagement
Step 3: Contribute
Engage in service project that meets the community defined-need, leverages student strengths, and interests
One-time or ongoing
Step 4: Reflect
Reflect on learnings: what did you learn about yourself? Each other? The community?
Reflect on opportunities for continued engagement.
Women's Soccer In Action
Women's Soccer In Action
Partner: Urban Tilth
Goal: Contribute to the beautification of the Richmond Greenway & activate the space for Earth Day Celebration
Step 1: Learn
Student-Athletes reflected on their interests, and visited Urban Tilth in Richmond to learn about their work on the Greenway, and opportunities to contribute
Step 2: Connect
Based on what they learned, the team connected with the team at Urban Tilth to understand ways they could contribute to the Earth Day Celebration. This included:
Mini soccer clinics
Planting & beautification
Step 3: Contribute
The team facilitated activities, worked hard, and had fun contributing to the Earth Day of Service
Step 4: Reflect
The team reflected on their service, and identified annual opportunities to stay engaged with Urban Tilth
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