Engage with your community

Students in NAU’s Sustainable Communities program focus on community engagement and work with community organizations in Northern Arizona.

Our community partners include:

• Black Mesa Water Coalition
  • This coalition works on green economic development and other issues affecting the Black Mesa area of the Navajo Nation.

• Flagstaff Foodlink
  • Flagstaff Foodlink cultivates and celebrates local, healthy, equitable and resilient food systems by offering educational, organizational and fundraising tools to the emergent local food movement in the greater Flagstaff community.

• Grand Canyon Trust
  • The mission of the Grand Canyon Trust is to protect and restore the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau. Its vision for this unique region 100 years from now is of a landscape still characterized by vast open spaces and dominated by wildness and healthy and restored natural ecosystems.

• Northern Arizona Interfaith Council
  • The NAIC builds leadership for civic participation across lines of race, class, age, and religion and organize for issues that advance the common good.

• Town of Camp Verde
  • This Economic Development program offers an M.A. student the opportunity to work on sustainability-oriented projects in Arizona’s Verde Valley.

• Willow Bend Environmental Education Center
  • Willow Bend offers place-based educational opportunities to Flagstaff children, families, and educators.

• Program in Community Culture and Environment
  • This NAU program provides opportunities for students, citizens, and community and cultural organizations on the southern Colorado Plateau to work together in:
    • collaborative workshops
    • symposia
    • conference
    • exhibitions
    • issue forums
    • other sponsored activities