The Office of Community Partnerships stands ready to support you in your community engaged research and learning. Below is a compiled list of networks, organizations, opportunities and more to help aid you in this work.

Building tri-campus capacity for community engagement
Organizations

Campus Compact -Campus Compact is a national nonprofit organization. They are the largest and oldest higher education association dedicated to higher education civic and community engagement. Members make up a force of thousands of presidents, faculty, researchers, students, and civic and community engagement experts at colleges and universities. Campus Compact takes a comprehensive approach to supporting member institutions—helping them build the knowledge, skills, and capacity needed to enable a just, equitable, and sustainable future. 

Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) - The purpose of ARIS is to advance impacts of research for the betterment of society and the expansion of research. We elevate research impact by providing high-quality resources and professional development opportunities and by creating connections among researchers, community partners, and engagement practitioners.

Engagement Scholarship Consortium - “The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, is composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state-public and private institutions. Our goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.”

Imagining America (IA) - The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.

International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) -  international organization whose expressed primary purpose is to cultivate, encourage, and present research across all engagement forms and educational levels. The Association promotes high quality trans-disciplinary research across a wide range of approaches and forms and builds the capacity of scholars, practitioners, and community partners to engage in such research.

Washington Campus Coalition for the Public Good  - Washington Campus Coalition for the Public Good (formerly Washington Campus Compact) is a community of higher education institutions committed to advancing the public purpose of colleges and universities, educating students for the workforce and civic leadership, and working in partnership to cultivate vital and sustainable communities.

Western Region Continuums of Service Consortium - The Western Region Continuums of Service Consortium is a coalition of organizations supporting higher education institutions in their region.

Journals

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) - The Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) is a peer-reviewed international journal through which faculty, staff, students, and community partners disseminate scholarly works. The JCES integrates teaching, research, and community engagement in all disciplines, addressing critical problems identified through a community-participatory process. The editors and editorial board strive to make the JCES a leading journal of community engagement scholarship, one that is read, comprehended, and appreciated by both professional scholars and lay people. Board reviewers are supplemented by a diverse range of additional reviewers, including community partners and students, approved by the editor. The JCES is published by the Division of Community Affairs of the University of Alabama.

Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) - The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal for the advancement of theory and practice related to all forms of outreach and engagement between higher education institutions and communities. This includes highlighting innovative endeavors; critically examining emerging issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities; and reporting on studies of impact in the areas of public service, outreach, engagement, extension, engaged research, community-based research, community-based participatory research, action research, public scholarship, service-learning, and community service. The JHEOE is published by the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, in partnership with the Institute of Higher Education and College of Education, of the University of Georgia.

Funding Opportunities
Webinars, Conferences & Workshops
  • UPCOMING Imagining America National Gathering: Providing Passage Practicing the worlds we want - Las Cruces, NM October 3-5, 2025
  • UPCOMING Engagement Scholarship Consortium's 25th Annual Conference (ESC) Conference - Virginia Tech, Roanoke Virginia October 8 & 9, 2025
  • UPCOMING Michigan State Universities Outreach and Engagement workshop series- Zoom
    • Creating or Refining Your Community-Engaged Learning Syllabus - Tuesday, October 14, 2025
    • Community-Engaged Learning in the Classrooms: Rubrics, Reflections, and Resources - Monday, November 10, 2025
    • Community Conversations: The Elements of Community Partnerships - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
  • Campus Compact's Annual Impact Award Winner's Series (multiple dates)
  • Campus Compact: Webinars On-Demand
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