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National Campus Compact Campus-Community Partnership, resources for community partners and those who work with them include publications, program models, and a host of other print and online information sources.
Building Citizens: A Critical Reflection and Discussion Guide for Community Service Participants is designed to help community service programs incorporate a deliberative, civic dimension into their programs by guiding participants in reflection that makes explicit connections between service and critical, enlivened citizenship.
Building Community Through Service-Learning: The Role of the Community Partner
This issue paper has been designed especially with the community partner in mind. From the school perspective, what can be done to encourage and support the emergence of the agency or organization as a partner?…
Community Partnership Handbook
This handbook from the Center for Public Service at Tulane University provides information about campus-community partnerships and includes sample forms.
Creating, Running, and Sustaining Campus-Community Service-Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners This handbook addresses "good" partnerships by drawing on the experience of dozens of individuals from colleges and universities and from community organizations in northern New England who have been involved in service-learning partnerships for several years or more.
"Defining new targets for community partnerships and identifying other underserved groups in our communities" A brainstorming exercise at a VCC Network meeting.
Every Perspective Counts: Understanding the True Meaning of Reciprocity in Partnerships
This paper addresses campus community partnerships and offers observations and patterns that have emerged from national-scale research…

Organizations and Journals

The Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC) at University of Minnesotra offers students, community partners, faculty and staff a range of information and resources about service-learning and community involvement.
Common Good VT is a network for community non-profits in Vermont.
Higher Education Network for Community Engagement (HENCE) is a response to the growing need to deepen, consolidate, and advance the literature, research, practice, policy, and advocacy for community engagement as a core element of higher education’s role in society. Increasingly, higher education institutions are intentionally connecting academic work to public purposes through extensive partnerships that involve faculty and students in active collaboration with communities. This idea of "community engagement" is renewing the civic mission of higher education and transforming academic culture in ways that are both exciting and challenging.
The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose vision is a worls where individuals and organizations act with integrity.