Below is a list of awards for which Community Partners are eligible, based on their contributions to Community Engagement. We kindly ask for your support in promoting these opportunities and in recognizing the outstanding community partners who are dedicated to fostering meaningful community connections.

Institution	Award Name	Description
UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES)	Community Partner Award	The Community Partner Award is open to community members who, in collaboration with University of Connecticut members, have demonstrated significant contributions to the local community, state, nation, or world through distinguished community-engaged scholarship. Community partners who have received this award in the past are not eligible, and self-nominations are not accepted.
UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES)	Institutional Transformation Award	UConn employees (i.e., faculty, deans, staff, or executive) or partners (e.g., UConn Foundation employees, alums, State employees) as individuals or teams. Individuals or units who have received an individual community-engaged scholarship award in the previous five years are not eligible.
Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC)	Community Partner Excellence Award	The ESC Community Partner Excellence Award recognizes outstanding community partners whose work, alongside a university partner, has had a documented impact on focused communities. Recognizing reciprocal partnerships is at the heart of the field, and this award recognizes community partners whose collaborative work with a university has led to improving the quality of life in a tangible way.   Nominees can be from nonprofit, public agencies (federal or tribal governments, state governments, or local government, which includes school districts or other special purpose districts), and non-governmental organizations. They should be engaged in a partnership with a university from an accredited institution of higher education.
Campus Compact	Community Partner Award	The Campus Compact Excellence in Community-Engaged Partnerships Award recognizes outstanding programs and initiatives that demonstrate meaningful partnership with communities to address complex social issues and further equity, justice, and prosperity for all. Programs that receive the award exemplify the core principles of effective civic and community engagement—reciprocity, collaboration, transdisciplinarity, and sustainability—and address specific social issues, such as public health, violence prevention, economic development, K-12 education, climate change, or houselessness.