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Submitting Your Application <br /> Applications are due February 15, 2017, by 12:00 midnight CST. E-mail your completed <br /> application in PDF format to: Mike Greco, RCP Director, mgreco@umn.edu. <br /> Evaluation Criteria <br /> RCP will evaluate letters of intent and formal applications based on the following criteria: <br /> 1. Top-Level Support and Administrative Capacity: City/county manager or administrator, <br /> mayor, elected officials, and/or department heads indicate a willingness to direct <br /> organization staff to participate in RCP program, and provide resources and devote time <br /> to identified projects. Community has sufficient staff capacity to engage successfully in a <br /> year-long partnership across multiple projects, and to carry work forward at the <br /> conclusion of the partnership. <br /> 2. Clear Sustainability and Resilience Focus: Projects clearly build upon and advance the <br /> community's overall sustainability and resilience efforts, and include specific <br /> sustainability- or resilience-related goals such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, <br /> fostering active living, supporting alternative modes of transportation or energy <br /> generation, enhancing social equity, enhancing public participation opportunities, <br /> engaging underserved or marginalized groups, creating a stronger sense of community <br /> or place, enhancing livability, conserving or restoring environmental resources, <br /> preserving or enhancing ecosystem services, increasing housing density or mix, <br /> improving urban form, reducing energy use, finding adaptive reuses for existing <br /> structures, redeveloping underutilized land parcels, promoting equitable economic <br /> development, or ensuring fiscally prudent infrastructure investments. [Note: This list is <br /> for illustration only and is by no means exhaustive.] <br /> 3. Project Relevance and Impact: Projects are well formulated and directly relate to the <br /> community's stated short-term and long-term strategic goals (ideally as embodied in a <br /> strategic plan or work plan). Projects should demonstrate the potential to have a <br /> measurable positive impact on community sustainability and resilience. Demonstrated <br /> relationship to community comprehensive or sustainability plans, policies, programs, or <br /> indicators is also helpful. <br /> 4. Community Engagement: Community demonstrates a commitment to meaningfully and <br /> appropriately engage residents and other stakeholders throughout the partnership as a <br /> means of integrating local knowledge, and strengthening and broadening support for <br /> local sustainability and resilience efforts. <br /> 5. Likelihood of Match with University Courses: Projects must be within the capability of <br /> University of Minnesota faculty and graduate students, and should involve appropriate <br /> research and/or technical assistance needs, not menial tasks or low-level administrative <br /> work. RCP will identify faculty who are able and willing to supervise course-based <br /> projects based on their curricular and research needs and interests. Coordinating with <br /> RCP as your organization develops its project list will help facilitate a strong match. <br /> 9 <br />