At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), I have been researching young adult engagement in local community issues. Together with my CODES (Community Oriented Digital Engagement Scholars) research team and Heartlands Conservancy, I have been looking for ways to involve young adults, ages 18-24, in problems relating to water conservation. My specific region of focus for this project was to focus on connecting Heartlands Conservancy, our community partner, to students at SIUE who may be interested in learning more about their work. Since reaching out to individual students is not an easy feat, I decided to reach out to professors who were scheduled to teach classes like ecology and environmental science the next semester. All of my research regarding this topic is being accumulated into my research team’s project for this semester. The data for my portion of the research project was collected through surveys. The first step in my process was to build a survey on Qualtrics that asked about the professor’s experience with community organizations. I wrote questions that were a mix of short response and multiple choice, with 8 questions in total. The main objective of the survey was to find out how professors at SIUE feel about community organizations and how willing they would be to collaborate with them in future courses. Afterwards, I created a list of teachers that I could email my survey to. This list was mainly composed of science and ecology professors who would be most interested in water conservation issues. In the end, I found 40 SIUE professors that I sent my survey to via email. The main goal of this project was to give Heartlands a list of teachers that they could collaborate with in the future. These collaborations could be in the form of extra credit or even lectures taught by people who work at Heartlands Conservancy.