Who benefits from Collaboratory?

• Become familiar with the diverse array of activities with which IU faculty, staff, and students are working. 
• Identify faculty and staff who may be potential collaborators with my organization and/or me. 
• Consider how I and/or my organization can make additional connections with IU or others. 

• Share details of my community engagement and public service activities.
• Highlight my scholarly artifacts of community-based teaching and research.
• Showcase my expertise, background, and community-based interests.
• Share research and services with potential funders, donors, and partners
• Find out who else in the IU system is facilitating community engagement work.

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• Help prospective students become aware of the full scope of service-learning courses and other community-based engagement.
• Share examples of community-university activities to showcase IU's impact.
• Promote my college or IU's university profile as an engaged institution with prospective students, faculty, staff, and communities.  

• Use reliable, current data to respond to external stakeholders, showcase IU's impact and reinforce key institutional messages.
• Build awareness of, and affinity and support for, IU's connections and work with community partners.
• Discover the units, faculty, and staff facilitating community engagement. 
• Learn more about the community members and organizations collaborating with IU. 

• Use data to match internal initiatives with the interest of philanthropic organizations and donors.
• Reinforce key institutional messages by leveraging data for strategic communication.
• Use reliable, current data to respond to external stakeholders and showcase IU's impact. 

• Create a sustained, systematic process for reporting community engagement data that can support IU's mission. 
• Contribute quality data to inform strategic decision-making and respond to requests for internal and external reports.
• Discover the units, faculty, and staff facilitating community engagement.
• Learn more about the community members and organizations collaborating. 

• Become familiar with the diverse array of activities with which IU faculty, staff, and students are working.
• Ensure the story of engagement is up-to-date and told accurately.
• Encourage the use of quality data to inform strategic decision-making and respond to requests for internal and external reports. 

• Learn how IU is working with communities to address pressing social issues.
• Identify which faculty and staff are doing work with community partners and how they are involved.
• Learn more about community organizations and individuals that are partnering with IU.