Associations and Organizations

This list is provided as a resource to member institutions, scholars, and practitioners seeking to leverage multi-institutional collaborative efforts on key societal challenges.

Networks with a Community Engagement Focus

• Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities (ACEEU)
• Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (AESIS) Network
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
  • American Democracy Project
• AsiaEngage
• Association for Pre-College Program Directors
• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
  • Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Action Network
• Association of American Universities (AAU)
  • Campus Community Service Directory
• Association of Commonwealth Universities Extension Network
• Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
  • Commission on Economic and Community Engagement
• Beltane Public Engagement Network
• Campus Compact
  • The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative
  • The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN)
• Campus Engage: Network for the Promotion of Civic Engagement in Irish Higher Education
• Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Community Engagement Elective Classification
• Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS)
• Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)
• Citizen Science Association
• Coalition for Community Writing
• Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU)
• Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU)
• Community College National Center for Community Engagement
• Community-Based Research Canada
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
• Community Engagement Fellows (northwestern Washington state, U.S.)
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• El Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario
• Engage Students Project
• Engagement Australia
• European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education
  • European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education
• Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research (GACER)
• Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi)
• Highly Integrative Basic and Responsive (HIBAR) Research Alliance
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Faculty Development Network
• Imagining America (IA): Artists and Scholars in Public Life
• International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
• International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy
• Latin American Center for Service-Learning (CLAYSS)
• Living Knowledge: The International Science Shop Network
• Ma’an Arab University Alliance for Civic Engagement
• MetroLab Network
• National Community-Based Organization Network (NCBON)
• National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement in Higher Education (NCCPE)
• National Forum for Chief Administrators of University Engagement and Outreach
• National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
• New Eurasia Foundation Community-University Network
• Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
• Place-Based Justice Network (PBJN)
• Public Philosophy Network
• ResearchImpact
• Service Learning Asia Network (SLAN)
• Service-Learning in Higher Education (SLIHE)
• South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (SAHECEF)
• Talloires Network
• UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
• Universidad Construye Pais (University Builds Country)
• University Economic Development Association (UEDA)
• University-Industry Demonstration Project (UIDP)
• University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN)
• University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
  • Community and Economic Engagement Network
• Urban Research-Based Action Network (URBAN)

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Networks with a Secondary Focus on Community Engagement

• Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru)
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
• Anchor Institutions Task Force (AITF)
• Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE)
• Association of African Universities
• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• Association of Colombian Universities
• Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (formerly NASULGC)
• Bonner Foundation
• Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP)
• Community Indicators Consortium (CIC)
• Democracy Collaborative
• International Association of Universities
• International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS)
• National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions
• New England Resource Center for Higher Education
• PASCAL International Observatory
• Universities Canada
• University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)