Opportunities for Faculty and Staff
For faculty, academic program staff and RISD graduate students, the Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) supports your efforts in doing community-engaged work. Our team is here to help you integrate equitable engagement experiences into your courses, studio spaces, research and programs.
Available grants
See below to learn about our Engaged Opportunity Grants, which provide support for a wide range of community-engaged learning projects.
GivePulse Network
Our online hub for community engagement
By connecting members of our campus community with nearby groups, organizations and service opportunities, the GivePulse community engagement platform helps facilitate many ways to do engaged work at and around RISD.
If you want to promote or are looking for community involvement opportunities, GivePulse makes discovery easier. By creating a GivePulse profile, you’ll stay connected and aware of upcoming, ongoing and recurring community-based initiatives across and beyond our campus.
Academic resources
For scholars and practitioners interested in engaged work, the resources listed below offer vital support for successfully working collaboratively in community contexts.
Is there a resource you want to see here? Email community@risd.edu.
Let us amplify your work
Real, impactful community engagement is a core RISD value that runs through so much of what our faculty, staff and students do here. If you’ve led or been involved in a studio, research project or other engaged community collaboration, take a moment to tell us your story and we’ll help spread the word.
Campus partners
CSI is an on-campus hub for students to discover opportunities to grow as critical thinkers and global citizens. In advancing this mission, it creates and supports campus activities, student government, leadership development and service/experiential learning.
ISE promotes cultural awareness, dialogue, and interaction on campus while serving as a hands-on resource for specific RISD communities. Working closely with faculty, staff and administrators, it provides leadership and advises students in a wide range of academic, social, cultural and financial areas related to the college experience.
The Center for SEI guides and coordinates institutional efforts to make our community more diverse and welcoming of differences, and helps ensure that all students, faculty and staff have the access, opportunity and support they need to benefit fully from their experiences at RISD.
Recognizing the critical role of discovery and experimentation in art and design, RISD Research sustains the college’s culture of inquiry through research initiatives, programming, training and support for publication, and by encouraging faculty-student collaboration.
The Teaching and Learning Lab offers faculty interactive workshops and development opportunities that support the creation of inclusive and innovative curricula and pedagogies. In supporting the exchange of innovative classroom practices, cross-institutional dialogue and more, the lab promotes at RISD a culture of reflective teaching and ongoing faculty development.
RISD Careers educates and advises all students and alumni on translating their education and creativity into fulfilling professional experiences. With deep respect for individual differences and for each person’s unique aspirations and goals, our career center oversees robust annual programming and offers students individualized guidance throughout their studies.
Student Employment guides all aspects of on-campus employment and off-campus work study, creating opportunities for students to support their academic career while gaining important on-the-job experience and skills.
As the only comprehensive art museum in southeastern New England, the RISD Museum is a vital resource for RISD and the surrounding area. It offers a varied program of exhibitions, lectures, tours, workshops and publications, and connects communities around an appreciation for the broad cultural significance of art and design.
Comprised of annually elected RISD staff members, the Staff Council fosters a spirit of unified community on campus, advocates for a working environment that helps all staff members reach their full potential, and serves as a conduit for the exchange of information between staff and senior administration.