News and Reports

February updates from the Center for Community Partnerships at UVA.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19) -- A major new partnership was announced on Wednesday involving the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia, with the goal of making local communities safer through the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.

Today’s announcement is a key recommendation of the Community Safety Working Group, a regional group convened as part of the President's Council on UVA-Community Partnerships.

The desire for inclusion inspired Désir to start Harlem Run in 2013. Since Désir started her work, she has noticed a gradual rise in Black people in running. But the numbers are still low, she said. “Black people are still disproportionately represented in the outdoor industry,”…

The City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia today announced a new regional partnership focused on working together to make local communities safer by working with Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).

Congratulations to Aanya Sonkusare, a Henley Middle School student, for winning the UVA Equity Center's Voices of Democracy Writing Contest! Her hard work and dedication truly stood out, and we are all very proud of her achievement. Well done, Aanya!

“Part of the power of this report is really bringing a shared understanding to what our community is experiencing,” Michele Claibourn, the Equity Center’s director of equitable analysis, told the press Monday. “So we can all kind of be looking at the same thing, working towards…

Ben Allen, executive director of The Equity Center at the University of Virginia, is among 205 leaders selected to join the Obama Foundation Leaders program, which trains participants worldwide in leadership development and civic engagement. Allen will be among 100 leaders…