Public Service Exchange
About the Public Service Exchange
Public Service Exchange Course for CIPA Fellows
Organizations Served by the CIPA Public Service Exchange
Current Service Offerings
Project Submission by Nonprofit and Government Agencies
Questions about the Public Service Exchange
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About the Public Service Exchange
The CIPA Public Service Exchange is a unique service-learning partnership with nonprofit and government agencies, the majority of which are located in the Ithaca/Tompkins County area. These agencies provide real
world projects for fellows to work on. In the process, fellows gain practical work
experience while completing their M.P.A coursework.
Participation in the Public Service Exchange may fulfill the practical experience requirement of the M.P.A. In addition, students may choose to expand their Exchange project in the spring for use in their capstone M.P.A. professional writing project.
Public Service Exchange Course for CIPA Fellows
CIPA fellows who wish to participate in the Service Exchange
must register for CRP 6790—Approaches
to Consulting, Research, Evaluation, and Program Development. This preparatory
seminar course is followed by a directed field experience, where students address a problem, issue, or opportunity for a client using a consultative approach. Students operate much as if they were employees of a traditional public-sector consulting firm.
Organizations Served by the CIPA Public Service Exchange
Previous clients of the Public Service Exchange have included:
- Alternatives Federal Credit Union
- American Red Cross
- Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes
- City of Ithaca Department of Planning and Urban Renewal
- City of Ithaca Downtown Partnership
- Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
- Cornell University International Students and Scholars Office
- Economic Development Administration
- Educate the Children, Inc. (Nepal)
- Health and Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County
- Ithaca Department of Public Works
- Ithaca Public Education Initiative
- Ithaca Youth Bureau
- Mutual Housing Association of Tompkins County
- Namaste Montessori School
- New Orleans Recovery Project for the 9th Ward
- New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
- Pipeline 4 Progress
- Save the Children (Bolivia)
- Stop the Silence
- Tompkins County Office for the Aging
- Upstate New York Safety Coalition Task Force
- Village at Ithaca
Current Service Offerings
The Exchange has the capacity to address a range of tasks,
depending on the match between an organization’s needs and the interest and
training of fellows involved in the program.
- Best Practice Research
- Budget Analyses
- Comparative Analyses
- Nonprofit Management
- Organizational Development
- Policy Analyses
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Strategic Planning
Organizations who wish to submit a project proposal to the Public Service Exchange may do so online by going to the Information for Organizations page of the Exchange web site.
Questions about the Public Service Exchange
Linda Haas Manley, the CIPA Service Learning Coordinator, is available to provide additional information about the Public Service Exchange. She may be contacted by e-mail at LAH55@cornell.edu or by phone at 607-255-4858.
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