Community Connect UW (CCUW) is a database and management platform that allows UW faculty, staff, students and community partners to connect, organize, and understand impacts of collaboration.
Fall 2025 Update
This autumn, we’re rolling out the platform to support community-engaged courses. We are also exploring new uses such as:
- Civic Health Scorecard, piloting on the Seattle campus
Internships, piloting on the Bothell campus- “courses” for community partner field supervisors, piloting on the Tacoma campus
We have been working hard to provide as much support as possible for UW administrators, UW members, and community partners through trainings, demos, guides and step-by-step instructions:
- CCUW and GivePulse training – this is a publicly accessible Google folder with guides and step-by-step instructions about GivePulse and about the CCUW instance.
- Canvas integration for community-engaged courses – explore these specific guides and videos
- Community Partners – How to Update Your Affiliation with Community Connect UW
- UW Users – Join the CCUW Community of Practice to learn, share, and co-develop new ways to leverage CCUW (NetID required)
We are also building a documentation and assessment framework for community engagement, which CCUW will be instrumental in operationalizing.
By the Numbers:
- >8,000 students, faculty, staff across 3 campuses
- >300 community partners
- >400 positions, events and opportunities
- >2000 “impacts” of hours or deliverables
- 27 fall courses and many programs
Over the next two quarters, we aim to:
- Further support community-engaged courses
- Foster the nascent CCUW admin community of practice
- Pilot the NextGen Civic Leader badge on the Seattle campus
- Support co-curricular community engagement
- Lay a foundation for ethical and useful documentation and assessment of community engagement
Learn more about this enterprise-wide platform!
Want to know about the larger project to build tri-campus capacity for community engagement? Check out the slide deck from our UW-wide fall quarter gathering.