Community Partners

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Last Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 03:23 PM

The Center for Service-Learning and Volunteerism collaborates with over sixty different regional non-profit organizations. Although we work with a broad range of agencies, some examples of what they focus on are education, mentoring, environment, art & culture, health, downtown revitalization, youth development. If you have a non-profit organization and would like to contact us, please call 618-453-7522.

Become a Community Partner

The Congressional Higher Education Act directs colleges in setting up service programs. Non-profit community entities and government agencies at the local, state and national level can work with CSLV to provide students with volunteer service opportunities. 

The first step for community organizations is to refer to the Definition of Community Service.  

Step two, if the organization believes that they meet the guidelines, they can download the risk checklist form, complete the same and email it to the coordinator of the Center. The email is volunteers@siu.edu. 

If it is determined that the answers meet the requirements, the Center will approve the organization as a community partner and request information to be posted into the Saluki Volunteer Database. For questions or clarifications, please call the Center at 618-453-7520. We look forward to working with you! 

Application Resources

The Carnegie Foundation's Classification for Community Engagement is an elective classification, meaning that it is based on voluntary participation by institutions. The elective classification involves data collection and documentation of important aspects of the institutional mission, identity, and commitments, and requires substantial effort invested by participating institutions. It is an institutional classification; it is not for systems of multiple campuses or part of an individual campus.

The classification is not an award. It is an evidence-based documentation of institutional practice to be used in the process of self-assessment and quality improvement.  The documentation is reviewed to determine whether the institution qualifies for recognition as a community engaged institution. 

The Community Engagement Classification takes place on a five-year cycle. The next opportunity for institutions to apply for classification will be during the 2020 cycle (which will open in 2018). 

In addition to the Elective Community Engagement Classification, the Carnegie Foundation also provides its all-inclusive classifications based on secondary analysis of existing national data. Information on the all-inclusive classifications can be found at http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/.

Please find below links to Carnegie Applications documents:

Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity

Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities Designation Program