This work group — positioned between our GES CoP and Knowledge Mobilization action team — is exploring how to measure community benefit. (Interested people should nominate to one of those two action teams.) As a joint writing project we seek to curate and scale assessment models and instruments to better reflect the needs and perspectives of community partners, moving beyond traditional student-centered frameworks. We are interested in capturing the complexity of issue-based collaborations (e.g., food security, health equity) while ensuring voice across all stakeholders.

Ensures Collaborative policies, promotion, public-facing initiatives, fee-structures, planning, and institutional design is inclusive across all stakeholders.

Current priorities and work groups that new members can support include: capturing FTL testimonials (video) to promote the work of our members and interviews with Toolkit users (both with FTL-Toolkit action team members), strengthening student and community partner involvement, and ongoing recruitment of members from community colleges, state institutions, HBCUs, HSIs, and tribal colleges.

Attends to the learning and knowledge creation needs of the wider scholar-practitioner community in service of the Collaborative’s mission, strategic goals, and principles. Includes developing and curating awards, blog, podcast, and webinars. This team meets quarterly with ourresearch team to consider avenues for mobilization of findings of the Global Engagement Survey.

Current priorities that new members can support include: helping to shape the content of our 2026 webinars and Summit, participating in a joint writing project on framing the roles, responsibilities, values, and structures that encourage teaching, learning, ethics toward a more just world, and developing a podcast episodes as co-inquiry or working through the knotty questions that our network is grappling with

Advocates for, and advances fair trade learning standards. Further develops and disseminates the Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit. Ensures strong connection with knowledge mobilization team.

Current work groups and priorities that new members can support include: capturing FTL testimonials (video) to promote the work of our members and interviews with Toolkit users (both with Membership and DEI action team members), facilitating our new FTL community of practice, and developing an FTL consulting cadre

Provides insight and trends into fields of practice of the Collaborative. Advocates on behalf of the Collaborative regarding organizational partnerships and partnerships with other associations. Membership is by invitation.

Represents the interests of membership and the larger community, serves the mission of the Collaborative, and works to meet the goals of the strategic plan.​ Lead or participate in another action team, and decide scope of work/potential projects for each team, holding a birds-eye view of all action teams (and proposing new teams). Membership is by invitation.