Practical Articles & Tool Kits for Connecting with the Community
- Finding the Right Community PartnerJump to Step 3 of this manual for straightforward, practical advice.
- The Unrecognized Co-educator in Academic Service-Learning: Community Partners’ Perspectives on College Students Serving Diverse Client Populations."Seeks to understand the issues community partners face and the role they play in working with academic service-learning students whose backgrounds differ from those of their organization’s clients."
- Challenges of Building Community-University Partnerships in New Poverty Landscapes"Community-based research should always start by listening...sometimes moving to action research makes sense, while at other times an advocacy research route is more appropriate."
- A Capacity Building Framework for Community-University Partnerships"Both community agencies and universities often face challenges in managing such partnerships."
- Benchmarks for Campus/Community PartnershipsLists eight key characteristics of community partnerships.
- Service Learning Evaluation by Your Community PartnerA sample form that community organizations can use to evaluate their experiences with a service learning partnership.
Books
Building Partnerships for Service-Learning by ISBN: 0787958905Publication Date: 2003-02-17To be successful, service-learning must be grounded in a wide range of solid, reciprocal, democratic partnerships. Building Partnerships for Service-Learning assembles leading voices in the field to bring their expertise to bear on this crucial topic. Faculty, administrators, student leaders, and community and corporate leaders will find this volume filled with vital information, exemplary models, and practical tools needed to make service-learning succeed. Comprehensive in scope, Building Partnerships for Service-Learning includes: Fundamentals and frameworks for developing sustainable partnerships. Looks at Assessment as a partnership-building process.
