We mobilize our network’s knowledge through our:
Communities of Practice
Our communities of practice are multi-institutional groups of community-based educators and universityfaculty and professional staff who share a concern and passion for understanding and improving student global and civic learning.
Our CoPs work to better understand and improve student global learning and/or administrative and leadership decision making, and strategies for disseminating our new knowledge and improved practices with the wider fields of global learning and community-engagement.
Currently the Collaborative hosts two CoPs: Fair Trade Learning and Global Engagement Survey. Both groups are open to all who can make a commitment to attend regularly.
Groups meet monthly to co-create and build relationships. Specific session topics are determined by the group, and facilitation is shared among participants.
Hubs
Our regional hubs contextualize the tools that our network members have developed, such as our Interdependence Toolkit
The Collaborative’s Asia Pacific Hub, launched in summer 2025, is based at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
Find out more about the current Hub member who, like our action team, steering committee, and co-directors volunteer their time to advance CBGL in their region.
Interested in developing a Hub in your region? Contact us to spark a conversation!
Action teams, webinars, and in-person events
People across the Collaborative come together to share knowledge. You can view upcoming events here.
Our action teams are participatory vehicles that contribute to the Collaborative. Unlike the CoPs, action teams work toward deliverables that have been identified by the network
About once a month we hold webinars or critical dialogue. Like our GES and Toolkit, our webinars are free and accessible to all.
We seek webinar presenters and topics of interest from our network. You can propose a critical dialogue here.
Since 2010 we have held an annual in-person event, generally in November. You can view some past events here. If you are interested in hosting an event, let us know.
Interdependence Toolkit, Blog, and newsletter
Content from across the Collaborative comes together in our monthly newsletter. We shape our newsletter around our member and supporter desires.
Developed by our members, our Toolkit and Blog are stewarded by action teams.
We seek new curriculum for Toolkit modules to make visible the good work happening across the Collaborative.
Our blog contributors are academics and practitioners, community organizers and community members, global service-learning skeptics and supporters. Together, we are working toward careful and conscientious global partnerships that advance human rights, interdependence, and ecological sustainability.
