The third largest area of national activity has been network building among national associations already engaged in, or interested in, civic engagement, and capacity-building work for their constituencies. The ACE also gathered leaders from national associations and regional initiatives to discuss opportunities for collaboration. The annual Saguaro Seminar at Harvard University, and proposed Institute on Education for Democracy are other examples of initiatives which are bringing educators and practitioners together to learn about civic education, collaborate, and share resources. The Templeton Foundation, Campus Compact, and AAU, have all produced resource guides to individual campus initiatives to increase knowledge of civic engagement and the sharing of project lessons. The Diversity Web, Civic Education Network, and Civic Practices Network provide every-day access to hundreds of campuses in need of civic engagement resources.
Policy development is the fourth area of national effort.
Many national initiatives have brought together the foremost thinkers on democracy, service-learning, diversity, civic engagement and organizational change to make recommendations or write policy for how universities should approach civic engagement. A fifth area of focus is national efforts to spark institutional transformation for civic engagement. The National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement is yet another example of how national efforts are designed to assist universities and faculty in the assessment and rewards of faculty involvement in civic engagement.