Reflections

Since early 2025, the CommNS has been collaborating with UW-Extension Ashland County on a project titled The New North: Integrating Newcomers and Communities In Northern Wisconsin for Civic Health and Sustainable Rural Futures. Funded by an …

Last week, The CommNS kicked off our Spring Semester 2026 CommUniversity sessions with a panel discussion on Faith-Based Organizations as community anchor points, which often offer support to communities which go well beyond worship, and …

The recent, inevitable explosion of the presence of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in our lives has invoked concern and excitement across communities, institutions, and enterprises. The abrupt integration – in just a couple of years – of an entirely new level of technological power most of us don’t really understand is unnerving and yet, already an accepted part of our daily life.

          This timely project supported by the United Way of Dane County, the Madison Community Foundation, and the UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies collects and distills information for stakeholders …

The guidance from this brief is derived from The Community and Nonprofit Studies Affiliate and Civil Society & Community Studies and American Indian & Indigenous Studies Associate Professor, Kasey Keeler and her project Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ …