Community partner compensation: strategies for humanizing payment processes

Equitable compensation for people’s time and contributions is one way to demonstrate respect, dignity, and trustworthiness in the context of engaged scholarship. Institutional processes including contracts and payment processes can be challenging for individuals to navigate. This workshop will share workflows for contracts, invoicing, and payment processes that involve increased transparency and accountability. The workflows consider approaching these institutional processes with several key questions: What are ways for those of us within academic institutions to reduce administrative burden for community partners? And how can we work collaboratively across our internal systems to expedite contracting and payment processes? Together, we can humanize our institutional processes on the pathway to strengthening our community partnerships.