Resources
Partnerships Best Practices Table
This chart illustrates best practices of partnerships and summarizes the purposes and characteristics of each.
Community Partner Motivations and Barriers
This is an excellent visual that presents common motivations and barriers that community partners experience when collaborating with university courses, from the article Making Service-Learning Partnerships Work.
Collaborative Planning Guide for Engaged Scholarship: Part I & II
This is a practical resource that breaks down various steps for consideration when initiating and developing partnerships, from the University of California’s Faculty Toolkit.
Readings
Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships, Final Report
This 2007 study engaged long-term community partners of higher education institutions in California in focus group conversations in order to leverage their perspectives and recommendations to strengthen university-community partnerships.
Creating and Sustaining Authentic Partnerships with Community in a Systemic Model
Michigan State University’s approach to community partnerships is outlined in this article, including the developmental, dynamic, and systemic framework through which the voices of community partners can be heard.