Building Relationships with Local Community Partners
Since offering this class for the past decade, we have worked with over 40 non-profit organizations and government agencies to achieve their sustainability goals through collaborative student projects. These partnerships have been maintained with many of the same organizations, attesting to the strength of the relationships and mutual value of the partnerships for both Stanford University and community.
Being a Sustainable Cities partner is a mutually beneficial commitment. Project partners typically work with us over the course of many years and multiple reiterations of the class through a long-term relationship.
Partners pitch their projects to the instructor before the start of the class by submitting a Request for Proposal. The faculty instructor will coordinate with the partners to frame the projects, and students then fill out a preference form during the first week of class. From there, students are placed into teams according to their preferences and meet with the partners by the second week of the seminar at a kick-off orientation. Moving forward, students work on the project on their own and meet with the partners once a week to check in on project progress, goals, and concerns. At the end of the class, students present their findings and recommendations to the partners and summarize their experience.
Learn about some of our previous partners and their projects, or submit your project proposal to work with the motivated students of Sustainable Cities.
Being a Sustainable Cities partner is a mutually beneficial commitment. Project partners typically work with us over the course of many years and multiple reiterations of the class through a long-term relationship.
Partners pitch their projects to the instructor before the start of the class by submitting a Request for Proposal. The faculty instructor will coordinate with the partners to frame the projects, and students then fill out a preference form during the first week of class. From there, students are placed into teams according to their preferences and meet with the partners by the second week of the seminar at a kick-off orientation. Moving forward, students work on the project on their own and meet with the partners once a week to check in on project progress, goals, and concerns. At the end of the class, students present their findings and recommendations to the partners and summarize their experience.
Learn about some of our previous partners and their projects, or submit your project proposal to work with the motivated students of Sustainable Cities.