By Mary Beth Collins, J.D., M.A., Executive Director of the UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies With special thanks to an important contributor to the conceptual basis of this article, Dr. Troy Williams, Ph.D., …
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Participate in Wisconsin’s August 2024 Civic Health Challenge
Complete a challenge, build a habit, connect with others, and enter to win! You can participate in the Wisconsin Civic Health Challenge in one of two ways: Join us on goosechase! Download the Goosechase app …
Students Reflect Upon Their Experiences in Co-Create
As the Co-Create team celebrated our 50-project milestone at the end of 2023, we took the opportunity to look back on where we’ve been and what we can learn from that. (If you’re wondering, our …
Join our “Social Innovation” Summer Book Club!
Social Innovation”, “Social Enterprise”, and “Social Entrepreneurship” are terms that are commonly used in current popular and professional parlance to describe efforts that aim or claim to offer effective and creative solutions to difficult challenges …
4 Insightful Takeaways from the 2024 CommUnity Conference
Our biannual 2024 CommUnity Conference was a success! In collaboration with partners from the Civic Health of Wisconsin Initiative, dedicated community leaders, students, faculty, researchers, and nonprofit professionals came together for a day of engagement …
Co-Create Reaches 50 Projects!
As we usher in spring, we offer congratulations to our Co-Create team who hit a major milestone toward the end of 2023: their 50th project. It began in 2017 as a small wish by Associate …
Goodwill Industries of North Central WI partners with Co-Create to refine their evaluation
As the CommNS Co-Create team we believe in the value of strong evaluation for nonprofit organizations. At its best, evaluation provides organizations with the data to track progress in programs and activities that advance their …
Nonprofit Capacity Building Efforts Across Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Nonprofit Resources Group (WisNRG) was formed to connect programs and organizations that support “front lines” nonprofits across Wisconsin. Over the past few years, WisNRG has organized informal quarterly meetings that bring together nonprofit-serving …
New CommNS partnership with Urban Rural Action sparks dialogue across Wisconsin
Through the generous support of the Schlecht Family Foundation, the CommNS began a collaboration this summer with Urban Rural Action (URA). URA is a nonprofit organization which works to bring together Americans across divides to …
CommNS contributes to new book on UW-Madison’s global partnerships
Wisconsin in the World (ed. Elise S. Ahn) is a recently published book exploring the long and ongoing story of internationalization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW). Against that backdrop, each chapter takes a unique …