Community Partners

CELO supports service-learning courses that create meaningful partnerships with community organizations. Students contribute to real-world projects that address community-identified goals, while faculty ensure accountability and alignment with the partner’s mission and help students learn from their experience.

Students doing work as part of community-engaged learning partnerships may engage in:

  • Direct service: i.e. working with people: tutoring, mentoring, planting gardens, etc.
  • Indirect service: i.e. sorting food, measuring trees, collecting GPS data, etc.
  • Consultant-type services: i.e. producing deliverables: marketing plans, policy papers, educational campaigns, engineering designs, etc.
  • Research: i.e. data collection and analysis: interviewing staff, volunteers or clients; studying comparable organizations elsewhere; statistical analysis of existing data sets, etc.

Community Partner Roles and Responsibilities

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As part of the reciprocal partnership with faculty and students, community partners may be asked to:

  • help design the project, and/or create a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the faculty member
  • provide necessary training to students implementing the project
  • supervise students on-site
  • provide feedback to students on projects or performance
  • attend final presentations of projects
  • provide feedback to faculty on student participation

If you are interested in working with a community-engaged UVM course, or with individual students as part of a service-learning internship, contact us at celo@uvm.edu. We are always happy to discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Recent Community Partnerships

AY22 Community Partners
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Below are some of the community organizations, associations, local governments, schools, and nonprofits that UVM students worked with in 2022. Note that not all faculty choose to report their partners publicly, while other partners (e.g. international) are not included in our data.

  • Addison Northwest School District
  • Moscow Mill
  • Age Well Vermont
  • Mount Mansfield Union High School
  • Agency of Natural Resources
  • Mudcraft Studio
  • Bayada Hospice
  • Next Generation Vermont
  • Bread and Butter Farm
  • ONE Arts Center/Collective
  • Bridges to Health
  • Pride Center of Vermont
  • Burlington Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Waterfront
  • Protect Our Wildlife
  • Burlington Dept. of Public Works
  • ReSOURCE
  • Burlington High School
  • Richmond Elementary School
  • Burlington Media Factory
  • Rock Point Commons / Diocese
  • Burlington Public School District
  • Rock Point School
  • Camp Thorpe
  • Sara Holbrook Community Center
  • Cathedral Square
  • South Burlington School District
  • Champlain Elementary School
  • Special Needs Support Center
  • Champlain Valley Head Start
  • Spotlight VT
  • Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility
  • State of Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation
  • Christ the King School
  • State of Vermont Dept. of Forest, Parks, and Recreation
  • City of South Burlington
  • State of Vermont Division of Law Enforcement
  • Climate and Human Health Program
  • Support and Services at Home
  • Community Development and Applied Economics
  • Sustainability Academy
  • Connecting Cultures
  • The Homestead Preschool
  • Crow's Path
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Davis Studio
  • The Watershed Center
  • Dear Tomorrow
  • Town of Killington
  • Digger's Mirth Collective Farm
  • Town of Montpelier
  • Enosburg Falls Middle and High School
  • Town of Panton
  • Ernie Duncan Hoops
  • Trinity Children's Center
  • Essex CHIPS
  • Upward Bound
  • Ferrisburgh Conservation Commission
  • UVM Campus Master Plan
  • Fleming Museum
  • UVM Catamount Farm
  • Fletcher Free Library
  • UVM Center for Health and Wellbeing
  • Franklin County Conservation District
  • UVM Medical Center
  • Gan Yeladim Preschool
  • UVM Office of Student-Community Relations
  • Girls Who Code
  • UVM Physical Plant
  • Greater Burlington YMCA
  • UVM Women and Gender Equity Center
  • Green Mountain Animal Defenders
  • UVM Writing Center
  • Grow Wild
  • Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sport
  • HOPEworks
  • Vermont Attorney General's Office
  • Howard Center
  • Vermont Climate Council
  • Howe Library
  • Vermont Land Trust
  • Humane Society of Chittenden County
  • Vermont Law School
  • Intervale Center
  • Vermont Public Health Association
  • Janet S. Munt Family Room
  • Vermont Public Health Institute
  • Jericho Settlers Farm
  • Vermont Works for Women
  • Little Royals Early Intervention Clinic
  • VTDigger
  • Living Well UVM
  • Wild Roots Farm
  • Merck Forest and Farmland Center
  • Williston Conservation Commission
  • Migrant Justice
  • Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District

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