Other CBR Organizations and Networks
Appalachia: Just Connections
The Mission of Just Connections is to invigorate grassroots democracy among residents of distressed mountain communities by creating and using models for participatory research and service in support of self-sustaining communities that offer equitable access to resources for local citizens.
Catalyst Centre for Popular Education and Research
The Catalyst Centre celebrates and promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change.
Center for Urban Policy Research
CUPR, a component of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is nationally and internationally recognized for its research on affordable housing, land use policy, the arts and cultural policy, development impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development.
Center for Urban Research and Learning
The Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) of Loyola University Chicago seeks to promote equality and to improve peoples lives in communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan region. CURL pursues this goal by building and supporting collaborative research and education efforts.
The College of New Jersey Community-Based Research Initiative
This initiative focuses on conducting collaborative research with the community partners of the university's surrounding communities.
Community - University Connections
CUC is a new initiative that explores the use of science in environmental and social policy and facilitates collaborative research and information exchange between community organizations and university-based researchers.
East St. Louis Action Research Partnership
Faculty and students from several campus units collaborate with each other and East St. Louis neighborhood groups on highly tangible and visible projects that address the immediate and long-term needs of some of the city's most distressed communities.
Living Knowledge: The International Science Shop Network
ISSNET is a network and resource for science shops and community-based research centers around the world. Their mission is to provide civil society with knowledge and skills through research and education along with enhancing the transferrable skills and knowledge of students, community representatives and researchers.
Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) of Chicago
The mission of PRAG consortium is to facilitate collaborative relationships between universities and CBOs to do actionable research that leads to social change and leadership develpment in the public policy arena. PRAG is very consciously community-oriented.
Princeton University: Community-Based Learning Initiative
The Community Based Learning Initiative is the collaborative effort of students, faculty, administration, and community experts working to provide students with opportunities for community involvement and hands on research in the classroom.
Sustainable Toronto
This organization is committed to facilitating the development of Toronto as a sustainable community, encouraging a new way of thinking that emphasizes co-operation among and across different sectors of the community, rather than competition.
University-Community Collaborative Partnerships
The University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia (UCCP) is a formal coordinating mechanism for bringing together organizations and university-based researchers in the Philadelphia area. The overall objective is to develop, organize, and promote applied, action-oriented research that can support the programmatic and policy-oriented activities of organizations in low income communities. All research projects emanate from the community with special attention given to the development of action plans for utilizing the research product.
University of Denver Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement
The Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement assists students, faculty and the community to become part of a movement to cultivate responsible, educated, civically-minded citizens. We coordinate students and faculty surrounding the service opportunities in Denver and create sustainable partnership between DU and the community.
University of Pennsylvania's Center for Community Partnerships
Through the Center, the University currently engages in three types of activities: academically based community service, direct traditional service, and community development. Academically based community service is at the core of the Center's work. It is service rooted in and intrinsically linked to teaching and/or research, and encompasses problem-oriented research and teaching, as well as service learning emphasizing student and faculty reflection on the service experience.
University of Richmond: Campus Community Partnerships of Metro Richmond, VA
The partnership's vision is to change higher education by responding to the student's need for a connection between what he or she learns and how that can make a difference in the world. Its mission is to improve the means by which the University can contribute to the civic infrastructure of social problem-solving in the Metropolitan area by connecting the rich resources of the university to the most pressing social, civic and ethical problems to enrich the quality of life.
