Faculty & Staff Resources

We are dedicated to supporting, aligning and elevating collaborations between Towson University and its community partners.

Beyond convening events and sharing best practices and recognizing impactful work, the Office of Engagement & Community Partnerships serves as strategic partner to faculty and staff engaged in community engagement and partnership work.

We support this work in a variety of ways

Hold discovery sessions with faculty, staff and partners to navigate, connect and support their work. Outcomes may include strategic support of existing partnerships, connecting and convening key internal and external partners, expanding efforts across campus, marketing, communication and storytelling support. Contact us to schedule a session.
Provide critical funding resources to enhance and sustain community engagement work. Learn more about funding opportunities and guidelines below.
Collect and utilize data through the Engagement Database to measure and share information related to partnerships and community engagement.
Partners with the Office for Social Impact and Engagement Fellows from across campus to institutionalize community and civic engagement and provide peer-to-peer support to rising engagement colleagues.
Collaborates with the Office for Social Impact to support faculty and staff through an annual Engagement Huddle Cohort. This cohort provides an opportunity for participants to expand their community and civic engagement, informed by best practices, and to forge connections to internal and external experts and resources.

Interested in serving on a board?

Local organizations are looking for board members.

Get connected to a board. Fill out this interest form. Based on your responses, we will reach out with additional resources and information.
Have questions? View a recent webinar on how to step into nonprofit board service.
You may have to report board service. View TU's HR policy on outside employment.

Ongoing Funding Opportunities

Resources support partnership and community engagement work of faculty, staff and students. This work can take many different forms in higher education. At Towson University, this work is seen as “a dynamic relational process that facilitates communication, interaction, involvement, and exchange between an organization and a community for a range of social and organizational outcomes” (Johnston 2018). Individuals seeking funding support through our office should craft requests with these parameters in mind.

Enrichment Support

Enrichment supports engagement activities such as event and material supplies, catering or meal needs, workshop supplies, external subject matter expert support, gap funding, equipment, marketing materials, honorariums, stipends, and other activities directly related to qualifying community engagement and partnership work. To further TU’s economic inclusion efforts, all efforts should be made to purchase from local, small, minority-owned businesses. Enrichment Support requests are limited to $1,000.

Transportation Support

Our office supports the use of Towson University shuttles, the rental of vans and parking codes for faculty, staff or students traveling off-campus, or partners traveling on-campus for partnership and community engagement projects.