Engaged Scholarship Consortium (ESC)
- 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
International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
- 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
Imagining America (IA): Artists & Scholars in Public Life
- Focuses on public engagement in the arts, humanities, and design fields
- Publishes Public, an online, peer-reviewed journal
- Supports PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Student) Fellows network
- Coordinates a national conference every fall
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
- 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
Association for Community Organization & Social Administration (ACOSA)
- 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
Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS)
- 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!)
- For faculty and staff interested in service-learning, civic engagement
- Archives toolboxes, syllabi, knowledge hubs, & other publications on website
- Hosts conferences, grants, and awards