Share Your Priorities
Tell us about the opportunities, needs, and challenges affecting your organization or community.
Engage With Illinois
Community
Connect with Illinois people, programs, and resources.
Community organizations and residents bring essential knowledge, experience, and priorities to university-community partnerships. The Office of Public Engagement can help you explore resources, identify connections, recruit volunteers, and begin conversations with the University of Illinois.
Partner With Illinois
How We Can Help
Every partnership begins by understanding what matters to the community. We can help you identify the people, programs, and resources that align with your organization’s needs and goals.
Find Connections
Explore university expertise, student involvement, educational opportunities, and potential campus partners.
Build a Partnership
Work together to develop reciprocal relationships, shared goals, and projects that create meaningful impact.
Explore Illinois
Community Programs & Resources
Explore educational, cultural, wellness, and lifelong-learning opportunities offered through the University of Illinois.
Statewide Resources
Illinois Extension
Access research-based education and resources supporting families, agriculture, health, youth development, businesses, and communities throughout Illinois.
Learn MoreScience Engagement
Illinois Science Explorers
Connect young learners and community audiences with engaging science experiences led by University of Illinois researchers, students, and educators.
Learn MoreFamily Learning
Family and Community Engaged STEAMM
Explore family-centered opportunities that make science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, and medicine approachable, relevant, and engaging.
Learn MoreAt-Home Activities
WYSE Family STEM Activity Library
Find hands-on STEM activities and learning resources that families can use together at home, in schools, or through community programs.
Learn MoreLifelong Learning
OLLI at Illinois
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers courses, lectures, interest groups, and educational experiences for adults age 50 and older.
Learn MoreHumanities Education
The Odyssey Project
The Odyssey Project provides free college-level humanities education and a supportive learning community for income-eligible adults.
Learn MoreVolunteer Engagement
Illini GivePulse
Recruit volunteers, manage engagement, and connect with the University of Illinois community.
Free for Eligible Nonprofits
Connect With Volunteers Through GivePulse
GivePulse is a free platform that helps nonprofit organizations connect with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign while providing tools to recruit volunteers, manage programs, and strengthen community engagement.
By creating an organization profile, community partners can share volunteer opportunities with students, faculty, and staff while managing activities, communication, and participation in one convenient place.
Whether you are looking for volunteers for a one-time event, building a long-term university partnership, or seeking a better way to manage engagement, GivePulse is available at no cost to eligible nonprofit organizations.
Learn About GivePulse for NonprofitsOur Commitment
Your Knowledge and Experience Matter
Meaningful engagement begins with community voice. We work to build relationships grounded in listening, shared decision-making, reciprocal benefit, transparency, and sustained collaboration.
We Listen
We Connect
We Support
Have an Idea or Community Need?
Start a conversation with the Office of Public Engagement. Tell us about your organization, the priority you are working to address, and the type of university connection or support you are seeking.