Rutgers Collaborative Center brings together community and government leaders, professionals, faculty, staff, and students sharing experience, expertise, and energy to achieve shared goals for our community through education and action. Rutgers Collaborative Center represents a history of community engagement at Rutgers-New Brunswick that includes partnerships spanning more than 20 years as well as innovations that respond to emerging social issues. We connect faculty to community projects and prepare students to contribute as youth mentors, community research assistants, behavioral assistants, and civic scholars through our academically endorsed courses and programs designed to sustain community initiatives.