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Divided Community Project receives $1.3 million grant, announces leadership promotions

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The Divided Community Project (DCP) recently received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The grant is part of the 2023 Community Policing Development (CPD) Program Awards, which gave funds to municipalities and universities across the country. The funding DCP received will go toward the development of Ohio State Community-Police Relations resources.

DCP is housed in the College’s Program on Dispute Resolution, which was ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. By offering resources, classes, and direct assistance, DCP helps community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and strengthen local capacity to transform division into collaboration and progress.

As the successful program continues to grow, DCP named Carl Smallwood as its Executive Director and Bill Froehlich as Director.

A 1980 graduate of Ohio State Law, Smallwood has moderated and facilitated programs for large audiences engaged in transformational solution-oriented discussions exploring a variety of topics. He was the founding president of the Law and Leadership Institute, a non-profit created to provide a statewide diversity pipeline program in Ohio for promising high school students from underserved communities. Additionally, Smallwood is a past president of the Columbus Bar Association and of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. In his role, he worked to develop – and chair – the Greater Columbus Community Trust Initiative, the model ‘community leadership team’ format used in DCP’s National Academy initiatives.

Froehlich is a 2011 Ohio State Law graduate and has been with DCP since 2016. He is currently the Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution and regularly teaches Moritz’s longstanding mediation clinic where he trains students to mediate and supervises student mediators in several Columbus-area venues. In 2020, Froehlich was awarded the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Outstanding Professional Article award for his article (co-authored with Nancy Rogers and Joseph Stulberg), Sharing Dispute Resolution Practices with Leaders of a Divided Community or Campus.

Together, Smallwood and Froehlich look forward to furthering the important work of DCP.

 

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