Service-learning partnerships can exist between and among agencies, schools, colleges or universities, businesses, government, and the community. Partnerships are important to service-learning because they allow larger populations to be served, they avoid duplication of efforts, they make better use of resources, and they enable problems to be dealt with more effectively. Partnerships also help sustain Service-learning by including more stakeholders in the effort. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
NSLC-Produced Resources
- Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning
- Community-Based Organizations and Service-Learning
- Partnerships for Higher Education Service-Learning
- School/Community Partnerships Selected Resources
NSLC Library Items
- Partnerships that Work: the Stories and Lessons from Campus/Community Collaborations (2010), Charlene J. Gray, James M. Heffernan, and Michael H. Norton (PDF)
- Partnerships for Service-Learning: Impacts on Communities and Students (2009), Todd Kelshaw, Freyda Lazarus, and Judy Miner
- A Guide to Reciprocal Community-Campus Partnerships (2008), Portland State University Center for Academic Excellence (PDF)
- Working with KIDS: A Service-Learning Guide for Community Partners (2007), KIDS Consortium
- Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships, Final Report (2007) (PDF)
- Creating, Running, and Sustaining Campus-Community Service-Learning Partnerships: Lessons From Practitioners (2007), Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont Campus Compacts (PDF)
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Related Websites
- Effective Practices: Education Partnerships
- Great Universities and Their Cities (CWRU, 2003) On January 30, 2003, Case Western Reserve University convened this national colloquium to brainstorm on how to build stronger partnerships between universities and cities.
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