The same lists, over and over
Crisis lines, food banks, clinics, and community partners sit on every wellness page, maintained in parallel, campus by campus.
Shared help, verified once, useful across campuses
For campuses: a shared catalog of student and community resources you keep up to date together, so no school rebuilds the same list alone, and students find checked services.
Talk about joiningEvery campus rebuilds the same directory. Alone.
Pages go stale and nobody notices
Numbers change, services close, hours shift, and old PDFs linger. Students hit the link anyway.
No way to know it was checked
Most directories never say who verified a listing, or when that check stops being current.
Shared where it helps. Yours where it must stay local.
Member campuses inherit the shared layer, with proof it was checked, and only maintain what is uniquely theirs.
Shared
Crisis, public health, legal, government
Checked once for the network. Available to every member campus.
City & region
Clinics, food banks, neighbourhood orgs
Shared across campuses in the same city or region.
Your campus only
Campus services, residences, associations
Yours alone. The less you redo elsewhere, the thinner this stays.
Shared vs campus-only already exists in how Canopy catalogs work. Commons is that practice as a network.
What’s already in the commons.
A catalog of 400+ student and community resources. Each listing can show its verification date.
Someone called and signed off. The listing shows who checked it, and until when.
Food bank · Moisson Montréal (service point)
Free · FR + EN · Walk-in
Trust: verified and fresh
Less duplicate work, with verification you can show
Stop rebuilding the same list
Crisis lines, food banks, and community partners are maintained once for the network, not again on every campus wellness page.
Show the check, not a vague promise
Each listing can show who checked it and until when. When that window closes, the listing stops counting as verified.
A check at one campus helps another
When a member confirms a shared resource, other campuses inherit that update. Students find a checked service, not a PDF from 2019.
A shared catalog is not a cloud AI reading student questions. Web search stays on the device. The infrastructure is in Québec.
From the field to the student.
Nothing enters the commons without a person approving it.
Contribute
Member campuses, community orgs, and partners propose or update listings.
Review
Automatic checks plus a real person approve the listing, including hours, language, and who it is for.
Share
The shared layer updates for every member. Each campus still publishes what is campus-only.
Reach students
Web, text, and campus access point to help that carries its proof.
Join as a campus, or get listed
You get the shared verified layer, your campus-only services kept separate, and listings that can show their verification date.