In this article, the authors chart ongoing efforts in the University of Louisville Writing Center to develop a partnership model grounded in "writing center values." A full description of what might constitute writing center values could include in-depth attention to the individual writer and all the varied intersectional contexts with which they might identify: race, class, culture, gender, sexuality, ability, religious background, language, dialects, and more. The values named in this article include privileging long timelines, radically dialogic approaches to learning, sustainable change, attention to perceptions of agency, institutional interaction, ongoing critiques of power structures, and collaborative goal-setting and decision-making. The point is not just that community engagement is possible through writing centers, but that the distinctive institutional and pedagogical positioning of writing centers within universities make them particularly well suited for ethical and sustainable community work.