The newly funded projects and their directors include:

Reverence Renewed, Colonial Andean Art: Louise Lincoln, Art Gallery.  $5,000 to support an an exhibition of Colonial Latin American paintings that will enhance the understandingn of how European traditions were adapted and transormend in the Americas. 

Balancing Mission and Market: Brian Spittle, Enrollment Management.  $7,000 to support a the “Balancing Mission and Market: Exploring Catholic Identity in the Enrollment Process” symposium that explore issues of Catholic Identity and Social Thought in the enrollment process among enrollment, admission and mission practitioners at DePaul and other Catholic universities.

Operation Read and Restore: Brett Nunn, Library.  $2,150 to assist with shipping costs for books, magazines, and movies sent overseas to U.S. servicepersons with ties to DePaul. 
 
We the Griot: Performance, Healing, and Community Action: Dexter Zollicoffer, Theatre.  $6,000 for two half-day workshops entitled "We the Griot: Performance, Healing and Community Action for an integrated group of twenty Theatre School students, faculty and staff to learn new approaches to exploring and expressing diversity and bringing healing.  

Bonds of Solidarity: Marie Donovan, School of Education.  $5,000 to support a an initial symposium regarding the new educational realities and possiblities brought to the educational community by Latino/a students. 

Tangaza College/DePaul University BA Degree Program: Derise Tolliver, School for New Learning.   $4,000 to support faculty travel to Nairobi, Kenya to provide extensive student mentoring to DePaul’s already established partnership with Tangaza College. 

Poverty Reduction Publication: Marco Tavanti, Public Services.  $6,000 to assist in the publication of a special Vincentian Heritage Journal dedicated to exploring how  Vincentian higher education can inculcate service learning, teach students about the dignity and resources of the poor, and increase awareness of systemic change, social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and social justice.

Protecting Indigenous Rights in Oaxaca, Mexico: Daniel Rothenberg, College of Law.  $5,000 for a short-term project to improve legal advocacy skills for indigenous women in Oaxaca through a program that connects indigenous women leaders with DePaul University students, the larger DePaul community, and representatives of the Chicago Latino and Mexican immigrant communities

Health Disparities and Social Justice Conference: Gary Harper, Psychology.  $4,000 to support a day-long conference for community members to increase identification skills needed to address a variety of health disparities with a primary focus on families.      
           
Common Ground Initiative: Fr. Christopher Robinson, University Ministry.    $8,000 to bring together students from Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to Paris to learn and reflect about their common Vincentian heritage. 

Coping Skills Program:  Latino Youth: Antonio Polo, Psychology.  $7,000 to support counseling programs for Latino/a youth from a local elementary school who are identified as having depression-related problems.

Donate-A-Day: Shaye Loughlin, College of Law.  $1,700 to support a program wherein all law students, faculty and staff take a day to donate volunteer hours to a local community-based organization that needed extra hands

World Social Forum: Andrew Riplinger, Psychology.  $5,000 to support a DePaul delegation attending the 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Para, Brazil. 
           
African Christian Works of Art: Louise Lincoln, Art Gallery.  $4,500 to assist the Art Museum to acquire a crufix made in the Kongo region, an area with a long but little-known history of Catholicism. 

One Book, One DePaul: Roxanne Farwick Owens.  $1,000 to support author participation for an on-line book club discussion for DePaul personnel and their fourth through eight grade children. 

Second Annual Conference on Human Rights: Angel Graf, College of Law.  $2,000 to support a conference that will bring together human rights advocates throughout Chicago to discuss activism, service, and skills-building.

Religious and Ethnic Divide: Mir's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook: Rob Chambers, Theater.  $2,500 to support Theatre Mir's production of The Arab-Israeli Cookbook to provide opportunities for DePaul students, faculty and staff to engage in learning and discourse about the religious, cultural, ethnic, social and artistic issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
 
St. Vincent Documentary:  Fr. Ed Udovic, Mission and Values.  $10,000 to support phase II of a full feature documentary presenting the life and times of St. Vincent de Paul.
 
Social Justice Practitioner Series: Rose Rivera, student, College of Law.  $1,200 to support the Social Justice Practitioner Series that will bring to DePaul attorneys who practice in various areas of social justice to discuss the importance of their work to current law students.   

DePaul/Adamson/VINCAP Values-Centered Leadership: Patricia Bombard, $4,000 to support a Values-Centered Leadership Certificate at Adamson University, serving Adamson and the Vincentian Center for Asia Pacific.  . 

Vincentian Action at the Border: Vanessa Cruz, student.  $2,000 to support a series of forums in Chicago that reflect upon and address the pressing realities of immigration both at U.S./Mexico border and Chicago.