Reporting Community Engaged Scholarship in Givepulse: For Faculty

In addition to facilitating opportunities for the GW students and faculty to engage with our community, one of the Nashman Center's important functions is to collect and disseminate information about GW's campus-community partnerships. Having information about who is doing what, where, and with whom helps us all to coordinate our efforts and collaborate with our community partners more effectively.

Givepulse is the Nashman Center's online platform for this information sharing and networking among faculty, students, and community partners.

For faculty reporting community engaged scholarship, we are less interested in reporting, "hours served" but rather the nature of our campus-community partnerships. We use the Pathways Model to categorize engagement, such as direct service, policy and governance, or research. To achieve more accurate and robust information on these partnerships, we need your help. 

How to Report Projects/Partnerships in Givepulse

Navigate to Givepulse, specifically the Community Engaged Scholarship subgroup and login using your GW credentials (small button in the upper-right). The green Add Impact button links to a page that provides the prompts for reporting on a community engagement initiative. You may report on completed or in-progress initiatives, and can return to an impact at any time to make updates.

The “Add Impact” page collects the following information:

• Where did you create the impact? This refers to the community organization you worked with.
  • Search for the organization by name. If you have already affiliated with them on Givepulse, you can click the My Groups button to find them quickly.
  • If the organization you worked with does not have a Givepulse page, click on the blue “Can’t find it?” button, where you can enter the organization name.
• Verification: for faculty, the community partner verification step is not required, so either select a person you know from the drop-down menu, or use the “click here to add contact info" link and enter: Wendy Wagner, wagnerw@gwu.edu.
• Start and end date of the project. Estimates are fine and you can update an impact report at a later date.
• Impact Type. Most community engaged scholarship projects indicate an investment of time.
• Impact Measurement. There is NO expectation that faculty track their time. Estimate your time in a way that represents the scope of the partnership.
• Type of Service. Select the option that best represents your work.
  • “Teaching” is often a category faculty request. If the project you are reporting is connected to one of your courses, the “type of service” should represent the nature of the service you/your students did.
  • In reporting time served, please only account for your own time, as your students’ time will be accounted for in the reports they make for your course.
• Remaining items: Follow prompts, noting items with a red asterisk will require an entry. Keep in mind the point of these reports is to help others at GW be aware of your work – they may be interested in a future collaboration. Provide what they would need to know:
  • The "What did you do" item is a great place to provide weblinks:
    • to published work resulting from the partnership
    • to photos, media or other descriptions of the project

Finally, click the green Add Impact button and review the subsequent screen to make sure all the information is correct.

To update an existing Impact Report

Update a report when you have more to add: a community report mentions the usefulness of your contribution, an academic journal publishes your article, new photos become available - any additional news worth sharing.

• Use the drop-down menu under My Activity, which is in the upper-right, to select Impacts.
• Select the project in question from the list of your reported impacts.
• Click the blue Option link (top right of report) and choose Edit.
• Make changes or additions and click the green Update Impact button.

Thank you in advance for contributing to the quality of information the Nashman Center has to report GW's campus-community partnerships and the outcomes of community engaged scholarship.