Partner Awards

Criteria for Outstanding Community Partner Award:

  • Receives positive feedback from students about their experience at the community organization
  • Excels in all aspects of partnership: consistent communication, knowledge of service-learning pedagogy, and participation in our office's committees and events
  • Has a long history of working with us in innovative ways

Criteria for New Community Partner Award:

  • Receives positive feedback from students about their experience at the community organization
  • Have partnered with us for less than one year

Community Partner Award History:

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2018-2019

Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB)
Haven Housing
People Serving People

2017-2018

  • Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning
  • Friends for a Nonviolent World

2016-2017

  • Cedar Riverside Adult Education Collaborative
  • Southeast Seniors

2015-2016

  • The Arc Greater Twin Cities
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest

2014-2015

  • Fairview Home Care and Hospice
  • Minneapolis Central Library, Hennepin County Library
  • Murray Pilot One-on-One Tutoring Program
  • OutFront Minnesota

2013-2014

  • Dignity Center
  • Family Place
  • Banaadir Academy (new community partner award)

2012-2013

  • Communities United Against Police Brutality
  • Sumner Library, Hennepin County Libraries
  • New Community Partner Award:
    We Win Institute

2011-2012

  • Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
  • Ebenezer - Minneapolis Campus
  • Pratt Community School

2010-2011

  • Minnesota Children's Museum
  • Project for Pride in Living
  • Sierra Club

2001-2009

2009-2010

Hope Community
Kaleidoscope Place

2008-2009

Arc Greater Twin Cities

New Community Partner Award:
Three Rivers Park District

2007-2008

Jane Addams School for Democracy

New Community Partner Award:
AchieveMpls

2006-2007

Athletes Committed to Educating Students (A.C.E.S.)
CommonBond Communities
Simpson Housing Services

New Community Partner Award:
Hennepin County Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Office of Pediatric Research and Advocacy

2005-2006

Communities United Against Police Brutality
Homework'n'Hoops: Loring Nicollet Bethlehem Community Center ( this is now part of Project for Pride in Living)
Cedar Riverside Adult Education Collaborative

New Community Partner Award:
Jackson Street Village (a Wilder Foundation program)

2004-2005

Minnesota Internship Center Charter School
East Side Neighborhood Services
180 Degrees, Inc.

New Community Partner Award:
The Tretter Collection (housed in the Elmer Anderson Library)

2003-2004

English Learning Center
Franklin Learning Center
Jeremiah Program

New Community Partner:
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

2002-2003

Chicanos Latinos Unidos en Servicio
Plymouth Christian Youth Center
Youth Farm and Market Project

2001-2002

Frogtown Leap Forward for Children Collaboration
Plymouth Christian Youth Center
Project for Pride in Living, Inc.