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