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Muncie community-neighborhood events
Working with the FDA’s Farmers Food Box program and Purdue Extension during the pandemic, CERES Affiliated Faculty Joshua Gruver, Associate Professor of Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources, is helping Hoosiers in need by providing free food sourced from Indiana diary producers. Dr. Gruver and the Muncie Food Hub have been taking milk that would have been dumped and giving it away for free. Watch Josh’s interview on Fox 59.
Ball State University Alumni magazine recapped the recent immersive learning work of CERES Affiliated Faculty Sanglim Yoo, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning. Funded by Provost Immersive Learning grants, Dr. Yoo has led student teams in analyzing the potential of brownfields in Delaware and Grant Counties as sites for solar farms and in assessing and improving economic sustainability efforts in Muncie. These projects also allow students to improve their skills in using socioeconomic and demographic data and the geographic information system (GIS) mapping tool. Read more on the BSU Alumni Magazine’s website!
When? March 7, 2020
Where? NEW Ivy Tech Fisher Building
Cost? As always, it’s FREE!
This year the State of the City Address will be held on Saturday, March 7, 2020, from 2:30 to 3:30 pm at the IDEA Conference. You can register for the whole conference, or just the State of the City, below.
For the last four years 130 citizens have gathered each March for the Neighborhood IDEA Conference.
The Muncie Action Plan, Shafer Leadership Academy and The Office of Community Engagement at Ball State University are partnering once again to support the development of neighborhood leaders.
Do you have an idea you would like to share at the conference or a topic you want to see discussed?
The fifth annual Neighborhood IDEA Conference is scheduled for March 7, 2020 at Ivy Tech’s recently renovated downtown Fisher Building. Over 100 of Muncie’s most active local leaders will gather to listen, learn and meet like-minded individuals to share ideas and best practices.
We are taking submissions through December 6, 2019
Take a look at some of the great presentations and materials from this year’s conference:
Muncie Neighborhood’s 2nd Annual Pool Party at Tuhey Pool was a blast! Families and neighbors from all over the community came together for a free night of fun celebrating Muncie’s neighborhoods with popsicles, hot dogs, BINGO, yard games, swimming, and friends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iD-DivYjTU&list=UUrJ1UVXdC6omYgez8uRToMA&index=1