Information for Community Partners

CMU is committed to building and maintaining reciprocal partnerships with community organizations. The Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center is a great place to start building that relationship.  We connect community organizations to potential volunteers across campus through daily social media posts, newsletters, email lists, and more.

To get started, please complete our Volunteer Request Form, which will ask you for information such as time/date, contact information, volunteer responsibilities, and non-profit status. We typically share information with students within two days of submission, we will have your event posted on our online database.

Engage Central

Engage Central is our platform to connect CMU students to your volunteer openings.  Every CMU student has access to find and sign-up for service opportunities through this online database.

Volunteer opportunities can be listed as ongoing or single occurrence in our online volunteer opportunity database. An ongoing post best serves organizations continuously looking for volunteers, especially long-term volunteers. These postings can stay up as long as your organization needs. If your organization has a volunteer intake form, we are able to connect students directly to your form. Single occurrence postings are for one-time, or event-based, volunteer needs. We are able to post as many of these as you have events and can post these in addition to an "ongoing post."  Single occurrence events are posted to students for specific date ranges and are archived after the opportunity ends.

If you have questions about volunteer postings or have additional needs, please email us at volunteer.center@cmich.edu or call at (989) 774-7685. We are also more than happy to meet with you and your organization to discuss further ways we might be able to assist you in recruiting CMU students.