Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1000 communities and campuses throughout the United States and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving health professional education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

We are working toward a number of shared goals, including:

• Building the capacity of communities and higher educational institutions

to engage each other as partners

• Incorporating service-learning into the education of all health professionals
• Recognizing and rewarding community-based teaching, research and service
• Developing partnerships that balance power and share resources among partners