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Focuses on community partnerships, community engagement, particularly at land-grant and public universities
Associated with the national Macgrath awards for faculty community engagement Hosts the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW);
Coordinates a national conference every fall

Focuses on research about K-12 service learning, higher education service learning, faculty roles & rewards about community engagement
Publishes International Journal on Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement, an on-line, peer reviewed journal
Gives national community engagement awards for graduate students and faculty
Supports a Graduate Student Network that pairs students with mentors
Coordinates a national conference every fall
Has a Facebook group for women in SLCE

Focuses on healthy people and communities, with health broadly defined
Supports community-based, participatory research approaches and strong community partnerships, including those with a social justice mission
Has multiple listservs, including some with grant, fellowship, and job opportunities
Coordinates an annual conference
Supports CES4Health.Info, a peer review mechanism for non-traditional scholarly products

For community organizers, activists, nonprofit administrators, community builders, policy practitioners, students, and educators
Focuses on social work, particularly the macro (non-clinical) focus
Supports the Journal of Community Practice
Gives awards to graduate students and faculty

For faculty and engagement/outreach professionals who need to learn about how to write up the “broader impact” section of National Science Foundation grants
Showcases dissemination results of community engaged research to public audiences
Focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields
Hosts an annual conference in the spring

Campus Compact ( Many states have their own chapter, too!)