Benefits for Community Agencies
- PROVIDES HUMAN RESOURCES -- Helps an agency meet its immediate educational, human safety, and environmental needs. The talent, energy, and enthusiasm of our university students are applied to meet these ever-increasing needs. In the longer term, it can help a community agency recruit possible future professionals for the field.
- DEMOCRACY -- Students may commit to a lifetime of volunteering after this experience, creating a democracy of participation. Student input can improve agency performance and give professionals fresh perspectives on the community they serve.
- CREATES CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY -- Fosters a renewed sense of community, which may encourage participatory democracy and wider public understanding and support for the agency.
- BROADEN AGENCY GOALS -- Community agencies gain the opportunity to participate in an educational partnership. Helps agencies maintain programs that lack government resources