1. Increase awareness and the level of collaboration among Emory faculty, staff, and students regarding Emory's engagement with the Greater Atlanta community;
2. Provide a more navigable and responsive point of entry for community groups, organizations and agencies regarding their efforts to find and engage an Emory partner to help address critical needs in the community; and
3. Provide Emory students with more explicit and focused pathways for connecting and sequencing their service activities, coursework, and research experiences to assist students identifying and pursuing appropriate career choices, especially those that promote social responsibility, civic engagement, and public service.

Through its public events (e.g., workshops, symposium, and conferences) OUCP will focus on knowledge transfer and application in specific programmatic areas. These events will feature an overview of what is known about a topic area, profiles of best practices, and discussion of how best and promising practices can be adapted to the Greater Atlanta area. A primary objective of these sessions will be to raise the level of understanding of critical issues among key stakeholders in specific substantive areas, and foster a greater sense of collaboration among those stakeholders to encourage funding agencies to support more innovative and effective programs. In addition, OUCP will seek to develop a relationship with key stakeholders to provide the technical assistance and research support needed to move new ideas and promising practices forward, and most important, to provide a means for monitoring their adoption and evaluation of their effectiveness with an emphasis on identifying means for finetuning and adjusting their application.