Partner with IU

Partnerships that meet your agency's needs

Do you have a need that your team can't get to? Have a new strategic plan you'd like support getting put into action? Do you have recurring volunteer shifts you'd like consistently filled? These are excellent starting points for service-learning.

Partnerships are best created when you come in with a clear idea of how service-learners would plug into your work. This prevents agencies from simply signing onto instructors' visions for their students and ensures you get work done that advances your mission. The goal of service-learning is a mutually beneficial partnership. 

You are qualified to participate if:

• you are a nonprofit or public agency, or a private-sector agency with an project serving the greater public
• your work serves the Monroe County community

If you are interested in making community-engaged learning a part of your agency or building more partnerships, we can help you navigate through the process. We help facilitate everything from one-day experiences to semester-long projects, and we understand that your ability to engage with the course may change at different times in the year.

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Working with ACEs

If your agency has a large capacity for service-learners and has some experience with community-engaged learning, you may be able to acquire an ACE (Advocate for Community Engagement), a work-study student who works part-time at your agency and can facilitate the relationship between the agency and IU service-learning classes, through assessing and advocating for community needs, tracking attendance, managing learners on site, coordinating with faculty, and more.

If you are interested in partnering with the ACE Program, please reach out.

Note: You do not need an ACE to participate in community-engaged learning. While nearly 30 agencies in our community host Advocates for Community Engagement (ACEs), significantly more agencies participate in service-learning.