Name
Campus-Community Matchmaking for Impact: Community-driven deployment of campus resources
Date & Time
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Location Name
Independence
Focus Area
Building collective strategies and impact
Session Type
Roundtable
Description

Campus-community matchmaking is a strategy for facilitating community-driven engagement between a higher education institution and community-based stakeholders. Matchmaking provides a centralized entry point for community stakeholders to share their needs and priorities and allows for coordinated and strategic deployment of institutional resources in response to community-identified priorities. A centralized matchmaking infrastructure also allows the institution to better understand and quantify its community impact. This session invites higher education professionals who are interested in and/or actively practicing university-community matchmaking to connect and discuss this approach. Representatives from Brown and University of Michigan will talk about their experience developing matchmaking processes and facilitate a conversation about how matchmaking does or could work at session participants’ institutions.