Connect With Partners
Identify community organizations and projects that align with your course, research, service, or departmental goals.
Engage With Illinois
Faculty & Staff
Connect your teaching, research, service, and expertise with community priorities.
Illinois faculty and staff play an essential role in building reciprocal partnerships and advancing the university’s public mission. Explore resources that can help you identify community partners, integrate engagement into teaching and research, organize volunteer opportunities, demonstrate impact, and give back.
Put Engagement Into Practice
How We Can Help
Whether you are beginning a new collaboration or strengthening an existing one, campus resources can help you connect with partners, organize your work, and document its impact.
Develop Engaged Work
Access tools and guidance for service-learning, community-engaged research, events, volunteerism, and collaborative scholarship.
Demonstrate Impact
Track participation, document outcomes, and generate information that supports reporting, assessment, grants, and recognition.
Engagement Management
Illini GivePulse
Connect partners, coordinate activities, and document community impact.
One Platform, Many Uses
Manage and Strengthen Engagement Through GivePulse
Illini GivePulse helps faculty and staff connect teaching, research, service, and community partnerships across Illinois. Whether you are managing a service-learning course, coordinating volunteer opportunities, supporting community-engaged research, planning an event, or looking for ways to give back, GivePulse provides one place to connect with partners, organize activities, and demonstrate impact.
Service-Learning
Manage courses, connect students with community partners, and track participation through Canvas and other learning systems.
Community-Engaged Research
Collaborate with partners, support data collection, and document community-engaged scholarship and research activities.
Volunteer Opportunities
Discover or create opportunities for yourself, students, or colleagues and track participation and community impact.
Event Management
Create events, recruit participants and volunteers, communicate with attendees, and measure participation.
Impact & Reporting
Generate reports that support accreditation, grants, institutional assessment, and promotion and tenure documentation.
Explore Faculty & Staff Resources
Connect Teaching, Research, Service & Leadership
Discover programs and campus resources that support community-engaged teaching, research, service, professional development, and leadership.
Community-Engaged Teaching
Community Learning Lab
The School of Social Work’s Community Learning Lab helps instructors connect courses with nonprofit and community organizations through existing projects or targeted partnership development tailored to course goals.
Learn MoreEngaged Scholarship
Community-Engaged Funding & Scholarship
Explore research series, funding webinars, partnership-building discussions, and other resources designed to strengthen community-engaged research and scholarship at Illinois.
Learn MoreLeadership Development
Emerging Community Leaders @ Illinois
Emerging Community Leaders @ Illinois prepares faculty and staff for nonprofit board and volunteer leadership through interactive seminars, peer learning, and meaningful partnerships with community organizations.
Learn MoreEmployee Giving
Campus Charitable Fund Drive
Join Illinois faculty, staff, and retirees in the university’s annual charitable giving campaign and support organizations and causes locally, nationally, and globally.
Learn MoreOur Shared Approach
Community Engagement Is Collaborative Scholarship
Strong engagement begins with listening and develops through shared goals, reciprocal relationships, accessible resources, and sustained support. We work to connect faculty and staff expertise with community knowledge in ways that benefit partners, learners, scholarship, and the public good.
Listening
Reciprocity
Shared Impact
Have an Engagement Idea?
Tell us about your course, research project, service initiative, or community partnership goal. The Office of Public Engagement can help identify resources and potential next steps.