Brown is building upon a decades-long commitment to stewarding strong relationships with organizations and individuals across Rhode Island to make a positive impact in local communities. We are dedicated to long-term, sustained community engagement that reflects Brown’s mission to advance teaching, learning and discovery while creating positive community outcomes.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement for Local Impact in Providence and Rhode Island
Brown University is deeply committed to working together with and in support of community partners to make a positive impact in Providence and across Rhode Island and the region.
Community Engagement for Local Impact in Providence and Rhode Island
Brown University is deeply committed to working together with and in support of community partners to make a positive impact in Providence and across Rhode Island and the region.
Community engagement is fundamentally aligned with Brown’s mission. Doing this work well, in some respects, is about being a good neighbor. But, more than that, community engagement recognizes and deepens our understanding that Brown’s academic and research excellence is tied to the mutuality of benefit we achieve with the people and communities of Rhode Island.
- President Christina H. Paxson
Contributing to Quality of Life in Rhode Island
Each year, hundreds of Brown University students, faculty and staff work in partnership with local community organizations and groups throughout Rhode Island. These partnerships catalyze activities like after-school programming, tutoring and mentoring young people; supporting refugees and people experiencing homelessness; providing healthcare; contributing to arts and cultural exhibits and performances and much more to create positive impacts for Rhode Islanders.
Brown's Community Engagement Agenda
A Call to Partnership and Action
The Community Engagement Agenda focuses on strengthening and expanding community engagement strategies and initiatives across five key domains through which Brown can coordinate its current resources to make meaningful impact in Providence and Rhode Island.
A Framework for Community Engagement
Our Five Domains
From improving medical care and public health, to supporting local schools and contributing to the regional economy, Brown’s community engagement and commitment to the success of the local community is reflected in many ways. Our core domains make up a five-part framework for Brown’s community engagement. Acting together, these domains can amplify mutual benefit by reliably connecting people, ideas and efforts — across campus, institutions and sectors.
People
Meet the Team
The Office of Community Engagement and the Swearer Center for Public Service work with colleagues across the university to deepen Brown's impact in Providence and Rhode Island.
Connecting with Brown
Brown University is committed to engaging with and supporting our local partners. If you have questions or want to learn more about community engagement at Brown University, please email us at engage@brown.edu.
If you have a project, event, internship or even an idea in its very early stages, we invite you to connect with us to share more!
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