Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	68.18
Liaison	Marianne Martin
Submission Date	Dec. 3, 2024

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University of Colorado Boulder
EN-6: Community Partnerships

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	7.00 / 9.00	Marianne Martin Associate Director Environmental Center

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6.1 Sustainability-focused community partnerships

Does the institution have at least one community partnership that is sustainability-focused?:

Yes

Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s sustainability-focused community partnerships:

CU Community Outreach and Engagement Programs has a directory of active programs. When conducting search by topic "Environment and Sustainability", currently 171 programs result. Some examples include:

A Year in the Ice: Immerse Yourself in the 2019-20 MOSAiC Arctic Research Expedition
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/a-year-in-the-ice-immerse-yourself-in-the-2019-20-mosaic-arctic-research-expedition/

Acequia Assistance Project
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/acequia-assistance-project/

Art + Science + Action Partnerships Cohort
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/art-science-action-cohort/

Boulder Chickadee Study
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/boulder-chickadee-study/

Building Community Knowledge Around Sustainable Neighborhood Design
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/building-community-knowledge-around-sustainable-neighborhood-design/

Cal-Wood Fire Restoration Crew
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/cal-wood-fire-restoration-crew/

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6.2 Partnerships to support underrepresented groups and vulnerable populations

Does the institution have at least one community partnership that explicitly aims to support underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations in addressing the sustainability challenges they have identified?:

Yes

Description of the institution’s community partnerships to support underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations in addressing sustainability challenges:

CU Community Outreach and Engagement Programs has a directory of active programs. To view, search by topic "Environment and Sustainability" and audience "historically excluded/ marginalized/ non-dominant groups". Currently 78 programs result from the program search. https://outreach.colorado.edu/programs/ Some examples include:

Acequia Assistance Project
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/acequia-assistance-project/

Art + Science + Action Partnerships Cohort
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/art-science-action-cohort/

Building Community Knowledge Around Sustainable Neighborhood Design
https://outreach.colorado.edu/program/building-community-knowledge-around-sustainable-neighborhood-design/

Crossing the Divide – Fostering Dialogue on Upper Colorado River Basin Water Issues https://outreach.colorado.edu/article/a-connection-that-crosses-250-miles/

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6.3 Community partnership assessment

Does the institution have published guidelines for creating and maintaining community partnerships that are reciprocal and mutually beneficial?:

Yes

Publication that includes the community partnership guidelines:

EN6-Community_Partner_MOU.docx

Online resource that includes the institution’s community partnership guidelines:

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Are all of the institution’s community partnerships for sustainability subject to an assessment process that includes joint evaluation by the institution and its community partners?:

Description of the institution’s approach to community partnership assessment and how the results are used to improve reciprocity and mutual benefit:

Outreach and Engagement activities at the University of Colorado Boulder reside in home departments, schools, colleges and institutes. Although resources and support are available to all of these programs, the university does not have published guidelines for creating and maintaining reciprocal and mutually beneficial community partnerships that have been established for the entire campus and do not require an assessment process that includes joint evaluation by the institution and its community partners. The Office for Outreach and Engagement does provide trainings and consultations about developing partnerships in order to support best practices. The office also requests evaluation results from grant recipients, but the scopes and approaches to evaluation are determined by the grant recipients and their community partners, not the Office for Outreach and Engagement.

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Optional documentation

Notes about the information provided for this credit:

Volunteer Resource Center has MOU's with community partners through our Recognized Partner program. VRC created a Recognized Community Partner Program. The official MOU’s for the program are signed off on by the Provost. These agreements specifically outline a mutually beneficial agreement between the VRC/CU Boulder and the Community Partners who have joined the partnership. 13 formally recognized partners have signed MOU’s. 295 community organizations that have affiliated in some form through our CU Serves platform.

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STARS v3.0

University of Colorado Boulder EN-6: Community Partnerships

6.1 Sustainability-focused community partnerships

6.2 Partnerships to support underrepresented groups and vulnerable populations

6.3 Community partnership assessment

Optional documentation

University of Colorado Boulder
EN-6: Community Partnerships