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Dotte Agency receives Public Scholarship award from IARSLCE

The International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement awarded its 2019 Public Scholarship award to Dotte Agency at its 2019 Annual Meeting in Albuqueque, NM in October.

In their notification to us they said: “On behalf of the board of the International Association of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, I am delighted to share that you have been awarded the 2019 Public Scholarship Award. This is the first year of this important award, and we received a number of strong nominations. The Public Scholarship Award recognizes “excellent interdisciplinary research that has a demonstrable ameliorative impact on pressing public issues with a special focus on the knowledge needs of policymakers and practitioners. This award recognizes research that generates non-traditional scholarly products, presented in a manner that is widely accessible to targeted audiences and/or the general public.” The committee was deeply impressed by the work of Dotte Agency within the University of Kansas, as reflected by the materials in your nomination packet. These projects exemplify the spirit of this award in leveraging academic research to inform policymakers and practitioners, and empower citizens, to tackle pressing public health challenges facing their communities. Thank you for modeling such exemplary work for our field, and congratulations on this well-deserved recognition - we could not have hoped for more worthy recipients.”

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Monday 10.28.19
Posted by Nils Gore
 

 LISC Receives $100,000 for Neighborhood Health Work

Good news! Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has received additional funding to support continued neighborhood improvements in 2 of the neighborhoods that Dotte Agency studied in the past year: LISC Receives $100,000 for Neighborhood Health Work.

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Wednesday 07.31.19
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Wyandotte County is a Tier 1 Runner-Up of the Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge.

Dotte Agency is honored to participate in this Challenge with our WyCo partners. Fingers crossed!

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Tuesday 03.05.19
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Community Health Council Launches Campaign To Transform Wyandotte County Alongside Community Partners →

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Thursday 02.28.19
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Mobile Grocer Hopes That Listening To Locals Will Help Fill A Kansas Food Desert →

A story by Madeline Fox, at KCUR radio station in Kansas City, about Dotte Mobile Grocer’s progress.

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Monday 12.17.18
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Carpenter Collective brings Dotte Mobile Grocer to life →

An article at KU about Carpenter Collective’s work in branding the Dotte Mobile Grocer.

Members of the Mobile Market Community Council reviews branding concepts

Members of the Mobile Market Community Council reviews branding concepts

Wednesday 10.17.18
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Thrive! →

Dotte Agency is honored to work with excellent community partners in Wyandotte County. LISC recently honored several of our partners with Thrive! awards, Diosselyn Tot, Broderick Crawford, and Rosedale Development Association.

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Thursday 10.11.18
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Health Forward announces participants in Healthy Communities Leadership Academy →

A press release about NIls’s selection for the 2018/2019 Health Forward Foundation’s Healthy Communities Leadership Academy. (Shannon and Matt are both alumni of the HCLA.)

Monday 10.01.18
Posted by Nils Gore
 

‘Active living trails’ give boost to public parks →

An article at KU about Dotte Agency’s work to improve parks in Wyandotte County to promote more healthy lifestyles.

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Thursday 01.11.18
Posted by Nils Gore
 

New mobile grocery store by doctoral student aims to solve Wyandotte County food desert →

An article in the University Daily Kansan about Matt’s work on the Mobile Market as part of his doctoral studies.

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Sunday 10.08.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

KU students to launch mobile market 'oasis' in Wyandotte County food desert →

A story broadcast by KSHB about the development of the Mobile Market

Friday 09.01.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Cracking the mobile-market code could create food-desert oasis →

An article at KU about the KCK Mobile Market’s progress

Wyandotte County resident participating in the future developmemt of the Mobile Market

Wyandotte County resident participating in the future developmemt of the Mobile Market

Wednesday 08.23.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Classic Airstream trailers get innovative second lives →

An article at USA Today about Airstream Trailer renovations, including our moCOLAB project.

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Monday 08.14.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

New Bike WyCo Racks installed on Minnesota Avenue

A nice article about the new bike racks that were recently installed on Minnesota Avenue. Wyandotte Health Foundation sponsored the installation of the first four racks, and we hope that many more will follow. It was fun to be a part of it. Bike WyCo!

Also: If you want to sign up for text notifications regarding Bike WyCo news and events, just text "bikewyco" to phone number 41411 and you'll automatically be signed up for notifications.

Initial prototype on the left, with Randy Lopez of Wyandotte Health Foundation. Final version is on the right.

Initial prototype on the left, with Randy Lopez of Wyandotte Health Foundation. Final version is on the right.

Monday 02.20.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Broderick Crawford and Jersey Creek Park improvements.

The good work of Broderick Crawford, a key Dotte Agency partner, on behalf of Wyandotte County, is featured in the Winter 2017 issue of The Journal, a publication of the Kansas Leadership Center. (Scroll down towards the bottom for the article.)

Friday 02.10.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

HCF Video features Shannon and the work of Dotte Agency

The Health Care Foundation of Greater KC, has a post with a video out describing some of the things they do in the Healthy Communities Leadership Academy. Check it out!

Friday 01.27.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

ACSA Architectural Education Awards

Dotte Agency was selected for an ACSA Architectural Education Award for Collaborative Practice by the Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). We are honored to receive this recognition and are glad to share it with all of collaborative partners—without whom we couldn't do any of this work. Hats off to them as well!

- Community Housing of Wyandotte County*
- Community Health Council of Wyandotte County
- Central Avenue Betterment Association 
- The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
- The Wyandotte Health Foundation
- Healthy Communities Wyandotte
- Latino Health for All Coalition
- NBC Community Development Corporation
- KU Work Group for Community Health and Development
- KU Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
- KU Hall Center for the Humanities
- KU Endowment Association
- KU Center for Research
- KU School of Architecture, Design and Planning

*Special thanks to CHWC for the use of their storefront space in Strawberry Hill.

 

Sunday 01.22.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

"We are Wyandotte" and the HEAT report

Over three years of intensive study, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, working with the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County, uncovered massive opportunities in creating/sustaining health equity among a large section of the community. Historical property value discrimination (starting with redlining in the 1930’s) has snowballed over time into neighborhoods suffering from inadequate housing, lack of access to adequate health care, and environmental health injustices.

This is an important report, demonstrating the pernicious alignment of numerous determinants of health and inequity:  race, poverty, housing prices, housing quality, geography, hospital admissions, life expectancy, &c., &c.

You can get your own free download of the report here.

Thursday 01.12.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

Dotte Agency's Flipboard site

From time to time we flag articles pertaining to food, physical activity, biking, urban design, architecture—really whatever catches our eye—by posting them to Flipboard. As of this writing it looks like we've posted 961 articles. So keep checking back if you want to see what we are looking at!  Dotte Agency on Flipboard

Wednesday 01.11.17
Posted by Nils Gore
 

2015 Progress Report: AIA Design & Health Consortium

The KU School of Architecture, Design and Planning is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design & Health Consortium, a group of universities with a focus on understanding the relationship between design and health. Dotte Agency is but one part of KU's work in this arena. Here is this year's annual report, with descriptions of what other schools are doing in other places, and some focus on what we are doing at Dotte Agency. moCOLAB, at the NBC Health Fair in Jersey Creek Park, has a prominent image on page iii, and there's a spotlight article about our work, "Connecting the Dottes," on page 10. 


Wednesday 01.06.16
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