Community-Based Organizations

Successful community-based learning depends on strong, sustainable, and mutually-beneficial relationships with community-based organizations (CBOs). The Pioneer Valley’s non-profit, municipal/government, and education sectors are rich with CBO staff and clients who facilitate essential learning and research, by

• orienting students and faculty to community conditions and histories
• contributing valuable time and knowledge to the learning process, and
• facilitating personal and professional growth for students, faculty, and staff through meaningful,  challenging, and often transformative experiences.

CBO leaders & staff are actively encouraged to discuss potential learning, research, and service  projects with the CBL Program Office.

CBL faculty and students have worked with these community partners in recent years:

• Arise for Social Justice
  Springfield, MA
• Capacidad
  Amherst
• Chicopee Watershed Initiative
  Chicopee, MA
• Community Adolescent Resources and Education (CARE) Center
  Holyoke, MA
• Community Education Project
  Holyoke, MA
• Connections After School Program
  Holyoke
• Enlace de Familias
  Holyoke, MA
• Girls Inc.
  Holyoke, MA
• Gorse Child Study Center
  South Hadley, MA
• Hampden County Sheriff’s Department
  Ludlow and Springfield
• Holyoke Health Center
  Holyoke, MA
• Jackson Street School
  Holyoke, MA
• Martin Luther Charter School of Excellence
  Springfield
• Nuestras Raices
  Holyoke, MA
• Nueva Esperanza
  Holyoke, MA
• Solutions CDC
  Holyoke, MA
• Voices from Inside
  Chicopee
• William N. DeBerry Elementary School
  Springfield