HOW C2P2 WORKS
A practical partnership model built around community needs.
Communities should not be excluded from opportunity because they lack access to technical expertise. C2P2 helps assemble the people and resources needed to move priority projects ahead.
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​​Communities
set the priority
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C2P2
builds the team
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Partners
create a path forward
Local leaders identify a challenge, opportunity, or project that matters to residents.
We connect the community with colleges, students, faculty, agencies, and pro bono experts.
Together, the team develops research, plans, designs, strategies, and funding-ready solutions.
SELECTED WORK
Solutions shaped by place.
Our projects span infrastructure, environmental resilience, broadband access, cultural preservation, and economic development.
ANDROS ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS
Protecting island ecosystems
C2P2 connected university expertise with local leaders to study the ecological effects of limestone mining.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE
LIVINGSTON AND YORK, ALABAMA
Expanding rural broadband
Students and partners developed strategies to help rural communities plan and finance essential broadband access.
INFRASTRUCTURE
NATIVE VILLAGE OF TYONEK, ALASKA
Preserving culture and creating opportunity
A college partnership supported planning for a net-zero cultural experience center rooted in community traditions.
CULTURE + ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE WORK
Partnership begins
with a conversation.
Whether you bring a community priority, academic expertise, professional experience, or funding, there is a meaningful way to help.
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Community Leaders
Bring us a project
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Colleges and Universities
Become an academic partner
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Professionals and Organizations
Contribute expertise
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Funders and Individual Donors
Invest in community-led solutions
ABOUT C2P2
Built from experience.
Sustained by collaboration.
Community & College Partners Program is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Michael W. Burns, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Navy veteran, and former environmental public-service executive.
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Our board brings experience in education, environmental justice, law, finance, community development, public service, and communications. Together, we help communities gain access to expertise that can turn urgent needs into actionable plans.