Engaging with Community
Watch: Ready, Set, Engage! Principles and Practice of Community Engagement
Respectful Frameworks
I. How We Regard Others: Moving from Deficit to Asset Based Frames
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- Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): The Essentials
- Fostering eABCD: ABCD in Digital Service-Learning
- Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities
Create Asset Maps:
Using Community Capitals to Develop Assets for Positive Community Change
II. How we understand ourselves
Watch: Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competence
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- Where Am I? Locating Myself and its Implications for Collaborative Research
- Combahee River Collective Statement
Troubling Our Motivations and Intentions
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Create a Course Lesson Plan
Anatomy of An Ally. This toolkit can be used with students to explore motivations for community engagement, reflect on them, and use those reflections to inform opportunities for growth.Reciprocal Partnerships
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- Principles of Partnership
- Perceptions of Partnership: A Study on Nonprofit and Higher Education Collaboration
Create a Reciprocal Partnership
- Building and Maintaining Partnerships. This site covers many different considerations and also provides concrete tools. To start exploring, begin by reading the overview page, but be sure to click on the “Guides” link and anything else that interests you.
- A Guide to Reciprocal Community-Campus Partnerships