A key ingredient in community-engaged work is building community with others who do this work. The UW is a member of many CE networks (listed first); as well, there are many other networks and centers in which individuals can engage and/or find resources (listed at the bottom).
Community engagement networks in which UW is a member
The University of Washington is a member of many broad networks of community-engaged colleges and universities. As members, all UW employees and students have access to a variety of professional development, funding, networking and other opportunities.
- Campus Compact
- Tri-campus membership, including in The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN)
- Annual conference
- Extensive online resources for faculty, staff and students, including webinars and syllabi
- Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities – Network (EPIC-N)
- Tri-campus membership through Livable City Year
- Annual conference
- Resources for building contracts (MOAs, MOUs, service agreements) with city partners
- Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC)
- Tri-campus membership
- Annual conference
- Grants and awards
- Tri-campus discounts on trainings
- Extensive resources including lists of peer-reviewed journals about CE
- Washington Campus Coalition for the Public Good
- Tri-campus membership
- A member of Western Region Continuums of Service Consortium (WRCOS) which hosts an annual conference
- Civic Leadership and Engagement Fellows
- Civic Leadership Awards
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
- UW Bothell and UW Tacoma membership
- Hosts American Democracy Project
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- UW Tacoma membership
- Various conferences, institutes, and initiatives across disciplines
- Imagining America (IA)
- UW Bothell membership
- Annual gathering
- Fellowships for faculty and students
- Place-Based Justice Network (PBJN)
- UW-Othello Commons membership
- Annual summer institute
- BIPOC Leadership Collective
- Learn more about UW Bothell’s memberships
Other multi-institutional community engagement associations, centers and networks
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS)
- Annual summit
- Broader Impacts Toolkit
- Research Fellowship Program
- Campus Community Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
- Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition (CLDE)
- Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)
- Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU)
- Annual conference
- Metropolitan Universities – peer-reviewed journal
- East Side Insitute – International center for study of social therapeutics and performance activism
- International Association for Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
- Individual memberships available
- Annual conference
- IJARSCLE – peer-reviewed journal
- Partners in Campus and Community Engagement (PICCE)
- Annual Student Symposium on Community Engagement