Participate in a Collaborative action team!

Action teams are participatory vehicles that contribute to the Collaborative.

Thank you to those who nominated for our January 2025 onboarding cycle!

Call for nominations will open May 1 and close May 22 for July 2025 onboarding.

Self-nominations are accepted, see below for teams, details, and commitments.

Questions or want more information? Schedule a time to speak with managing director Mike Bishop.

  • Global Engagement Survey

    A community of practice that co-creates and builds relationships among people using the GES. Share ways to utilize GES data to better understand and improve student global learning and/or administrative and leadership decision making, and strategies for disseminating our new knowledge and improved practices.

  • Membership and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    Ensures Collaborative policies, promotion, public-facing initiatives, fee-structures, planning, and institutional design is inclusive across all stakeholders.

  • Knowledge Mobilization

    Attends to the learning and knowledge creation needs of the wider scholar-practitioner community in service of the Collaborative’s mission, strategic goals, and principles. Includes developing and curating awards, blog, podcast, and webinars. This team meets quarterly with our research team to consider avenues for mobilization of findings of the Global Engagement Survey.

  • Fair Trade Learning and Toolkit Development and Dissemination

    Advocates for, and advances fair trade learning standards. Further develops and disseminates the Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit. Ensures strong connection with knowledge mobilization team.

  • Advocacy Council (quarterly)

    Provides insight and trends into fields of practice of the Collaborative. Advocates on behalf of the Collaborative regarding organizational partnerships and partnerships with other associations. Membership is by invitation.

  • Steering Committee

    Represents the interests of membership and the larger community, serves the mission of the Collaborative, and works to meet the goals of the strategic plan.​ Lead or participate in another action team, and decide scope of work/potential projects for each team, holding a birds-eye view of all action teams (and proposing new teams). Membership is by invitation.

Additional details

The benefits of participating include supporting our shared work, connecting with like-minded people, and developing/deepening skills, knowledge, and understanding about community-based global projects.

Teams meet monthly unless noted. Monthly time commitment including preparing for and attending meetings and action items in between meetings is 4 hours/month or 1 hour/week.

Each team has a facilitator who is a Collaborative staff or Steering Committee volunteer. The chairperson is responsible for facilitating meetings and inclusive goal setting, outcomes, and reporting.

Interested people can join by nomination. Dues paying members and those who recently attended a CBGL Summit or Institute are eligible to self-nominate. Interested people should meet with managing director Mike Bishop to discuss opportunities.

We welcome new action team members through a one-hour orientation and onboarding once accepted into an action team.

In addition to the teams above, we convene ad hoc action teams to plan our Institutes, Summits, and other events. We recruit for these teams through our newsletter and social media.

Action team commitments

  • Serve at least one year, with onboarding every January and July.

  • Make every effort to attend scheduled meetings and complete action items in between meetings

  • Sign the individual commitment or organizational / institutional commitment and strive to practice these in your action team and other roles

  • Familiarize yourself with our initiatives

  • Contribute intellectual leadership or implementation opportunities, or share those initiatives with your wider network whenever appropriate. 

  • Encourage your organization or institution to be an active, contributing member of the Collaborative. This includes organizational / institutional financial contribution (membership), if relevant. 

  • Provide feedback to continuously improve this critical community of practice

  • Attend in-person gatherings when relevant and reasonable