Resources

As the field of community engagement, campus/community partnerships, service-learning, engaged scholarship—and their burgeoning variations—have grown, so have the resources for practitioners, policy-makers and campus and community administrators.
High-quality and comprehensive databases and information services are available to NYCC members through the following links—and the many cascading links which they provide.

 

National Campus Compact
The national Campus Compact web site contains information about publications, journals, conferences, national initiatives, research, consulting services and funding opportunities, as well as links to each of the state Compacts.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
This is the “Mother Lode”for service-learning and related topics:

• Extensive collection of publications—research, best practices, syllabi, tool-kits, policy issues, program development—covering K-12 through higher education
•  Lending library services
• Online information database
•  Toll-free information and reference-desk service (1-866-245-SERV/7378)
• Listservs for discussion & information on service-learning

Corporation for National Service
This web site includes information on all Corporation for National and Community  Service programs-- Learn and Serve, AmeriCorps, VISTA and the National Senior Service Corps.

The Clearinghouse & National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement
The Clearinghouse and National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement provide external peer review and evaluation of faculty's scholarship of engagement. They provide extensive resources to campuses seeking to develop or strengthen systems in support of the scholarship of engagement.

EpiCenter: Effective Practices Information Center
The EpiCenter website features the latest effective practices from peers and experts in community service and volunteering.