Swearer Center for Public Service

Resources and Opportunities

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Resources and Opportunities

Explore community engagement resources and opportunities for faculty and staff, including guiding principles for community engagement, understanding local context and partnerships, accessing policies and guidance, and collaborating on ideas, questions, experiences or goals with key contacts at Brown.

Principles and Practices for Collaboration

Transformative change requires collaboration, grounded in a sense of our shared humanity, shared purpose and shared power.

Local Collaborations and Issues

While people at Brown engage with partners across the United States and around the globe and often seek to have national and global impact, we also have a particular responsibility to Providence and Rhode Island.

Policies and Guidance

This page highlights applicable University policies and provides guidance on various issues important in community engagement (e.g., collaboration agreements, work with minors, compensation of partners, transportation and more).

Key Contacts at Brown

A network of people is available to support colleagues, partners and students in various aspects of community engagement.

Data and Evaluation Partnerships

The Community-Engaged Data & Evaluation Collaborative (CEDEC) leverages Brown University’s resources to address data, evaluation and research priorities identified and valued by community organizations, nonprofits and public agencies in Rhode Island.