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This project created a website, and a prototype for others websites, with information on Trenton and New Jersey policy news, research, and non-profit organization resources. The focus is to provide local policy and program information for residents and community leaders using university students engaged in service-based programs.
Project Updates
- PolicyOptions tackles Community-Campus Partnerships (October, 2011) - In an effort to expand civic engagement, PolicyOptions piloted a program in its New Jersey home to have students at local colleges and universities reporting on issues within their respective communities. So far, PolicyOptions has established bureaus at The College of New Jersey and Rutgers campuses in Camden, New Brunswick and Newark. PolicyOptions Coordinators based […]
- Template Catches On (February, 2009) - In its second year, PolicyOptions.org — a project of the Bonner Foundation and four New Jersey colleges — has succeeded in identifying and recruiting 20 colleges across the country to replicate in their own communities the public policy research work of the Trenton, N.J.-based initiative. PolicyOption’s original goal was to provide local policy and program […]
- Slow and Steady Build-Out (November, 2007) - Trenton Policy Options (TPO) is still in the pilot phase of the project to create a single hub for local data, research and policy analysis. Over the summer, three college students participated in an intensive Trenton community research internship which kick-started the information gathering for the website. So far, the site has 10 different issues […]
- Colleges Help with Issues Briefs for Policy Options Wiki (April, 2007) - Trenton Policy Options, a pilot project to have students and faculty create issues briefs about state, local and national issues and invite collaboration via a wiki, has created a main wiki page with framework to help guide future collaborations on such issues as education, health and criminal justice. The project has also been working with […]
- Trenton PolicyOptions.org Pilots Policy News (November, 2006) - The Trenton PolicyOptions.org project was a late-comer to this year’s New Voices grantees. Robert Hackett, project director and vice president of the Bonner Foundation, learned in late September that The College of New Jersey, which works in partnership with Bonner, was accepted in place of another initial grantee. One of the first steps Hackett and […]
