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The Blazers Boys and Girls Club serves as a resource center for children ages 7 to 18. Students involved in this partnership gain a deeper awareness of what in means to live in a diverse community.
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This Oregon Solutions project involves the stakeholders of the Rockwood Triangle collaborating to create a strategic investment plan for the area.
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Commercial Recycling Project - The Commercial Recycling Project provides education, outreach, research, data collection, and technical assistance services to commercial businesses, the multi-family sector, and public events in the areas of recycling, waste prevention, and recycling practices.
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Environmental Studies students and field staff collect household garbage set-out weights during eight sampling periods for the Single Family Weight Study. This data is used in the city’s residential rate-making process.
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OUV is a non-profit organization founded on the belief that every person can make a positive difference in their community. OUV invites everyone in a neighborhood to Neighborhood Conversations, where they provide facilitation, food, and necessary accommodations for 2 ½ hour-long discussions designed to encourage neighbors to share their hopes and ideas with each other.
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Deteriorating physical features of urban environments can negatively impact public health. Students in Urban Planning and Public Health conduct research to determine relationships between poor living conditions and physcial/mental health.
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Oaks Bottom Signage Project - Students studied the Oaks Bottom Refuge and created interpretive signs for the public's benefit on proper use and care of the sensitive wetland area.
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Portland Parks and Recreation requested input from Kenton area residents regarding ways to improve Kenton Park using urban renewal funds. PSU Capstone students used surveys and public meetings to gather input.
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Rosehaven serves as a resource center for homeless women and children. The goal of the Rosehaven-PSU partnership is to increase student awareness of the variety of difficulties and issues surrounding the homeless population.
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Sisters Of the Road Cafè is a non-profit restaurant open to the public. An estimated 250-300 meals are served daily through SOTR’s Hot Meals Program. Meals are given free of charge to all first time visitors to the café and to those who are unable to pay and cannot work because of age, ill health or parenting responsibilities.
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The aim of this partnership is to analyze data collected by the TriMet Bus Dispatch System to improve transit planning, scheduling, and operations. The desired outcome of the research is to provide better (more reliable) service to passengers in a more cost effective manner.
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PSU students assist in data collection and evaluation for Project Safe Neighborhoods, a multi-agency task force focusing on the reduction of gun crimes in the tri-county area.
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