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• Action Evaluation Research Institute--bringing together user-friendly evaluation with action research, with a nice selection of on-line readings.

• Action Research Resources--a nice selection of links to action research and related resources at Southern Cross University in Australia.

• Action Research Resources on the Web--a collection of links sponsored by the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia.

• Applied Research Center--a leading research lab and foundry where academics and activists forge tools to spark social progress and measure the results.

• Citizens League promotes the public interest in Minnesota by involving citizens in identifying and framing critical public policy choices, forging recommendations and advocating their adoption, and maintains a directory of similar organizations around the U.S.

• Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation--a topical interest group of the American Evaluation Association with links to other resources.

• The Community-Based Participatory Research Resources Page, maintained by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, contains tools and resources, reports and presentations, principles and policies, listservs, and other CBPR resources.

• Community Psychology Net is a comprehensive site regarding the field of community psychology--meant to be a resource for professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, and others.

• Community Scholars is a paid summer internship program for high school juniors and seniors in El Paso, Texas. 

• Environmental Indicators Project provides science-based information on environmental and social conditions at the neighborhood level.

• Evaluation Tools for Racial Equality provides a step by step guide for conducting evaluation with a focus on racial justice.

• Focus St. Louis provides people with multiple opportunities to discuss issues, provide feedback to decision-makers, and take action for positive change. 

• LOKA Institute--among its many activities, LOKA is developing an on-line database of   community-based researchers.

• New Directions Community-Based Research Institute, Inc. attracts and assembles multi-disciplinary teams of university researchers and their students and brings them to civic groups which have demonstrated a willingness and a desire to become active stewards of their neighborhoods or communities

• The Outerversity, A site to develop community-based activist resources.  Use the link Connecting Community and Academic Activism for a set of worksheets to use in developing an action research project.

• PARnet, an interactive community on action research founded in 1993.

• Project South is a community-based membership institute that develops and conducts popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation.

• Rainbow Research provides research services for community organizations and free information on their web site.

• Research for Action is a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization
  engaged in educational research and reform.

• Society for Community Research and Action, devoted to advancing theory, research and social action to promote positive well-being, increase empowerment, and prevent the development of problems of communities, groups and individuals.

• "Sociology and Social Action."--two special issues of "Sociological Imagination," The journal of the Wisconsin Sociological Society, now available on-line.

• Southeast Community Research Center is established to promote, facilitate, and conduct participatory and community-based research throughout the Southeastern United States.

• The Catalyst Centre celebrates and promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change.

• Center for Popular Education, at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia.

• The Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research at the University of California at Berkeley with nice links and other resources.

• Comeuppance--Thoughts on popular education, storytelling and activism for a possible better world
   

• Highlander Research and Education Center, has a long and distinguished history as a popular education center that brings grassroots leaders and community groups together to learn from each other and develop strategies for social change.

• Jungle Hill and the Oakland Musuem of California--a fascinating story of youth, a musuem, and community organizing.

• Living the Question, a site to create a space for sharing the stories of transformation and collective journeys in action learning circles.

• The Paulo Freire Institute--an international network of people and institutions with members in 18 countries worldwide. Its main purpose is to research, organize and gather data, thoughts and information and to operate in the field of education, culture and communication.

• Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed--A global forum based on the ideologies and actions of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal with a nice set of links to other resources.

• The Popular Education News, current and back issues of free monthly newsletter of reviews of popular education and community organizing materials - includes annotated bibliography and links and more.

• Pop Ed, has a very nice set of resources on popular education--the education component of community organizing.

• Campus Outreach Opportunity League is a national non-profit that helps college students start, strengthen, and expand their community service programs.

• Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota provides training, collaborative research, and student interns for community groups.

• Community Advocacy Unit at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia provides provides opportunities for dialogue, networking, training, research and collaboration within the community sector, and between the community sector and academia.

• Community-Based Research Network of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, focuses on increasing the capacity of community-based organizations in Ottawa to use evidence-based information to more effectively serve the community and promote sharing and dissemination of information and best practices among universities, community based organizations and the broader community.

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

• Community Partnership Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville links University faculty, students, and staff with urban and rural community groups and agencies to address the core problems facing low-and moderate-income communities.

• Community Service & Research Centre at The University of Queensland in Ipswich, Australia exists to integrate research, teaching and learning to improve community well-being and capability.

• The Down East Spiral Network is made up of the graduates and instructors of the Certificate in Community Development Course at Henson College in Nova Scotia, Canada. Graduates and partners include grass-roots groups doing community organizing work.

• The East St. Louis Action Research Project--perhaps the best model of university-community collaboration going, trying to redevelop the economically devastated city of East St. Louis.

• Green Visions Plan--a partnership between Southern California’s state land conservancies and the University of Southern California’s Center for Sustainable Cities and GIS Research Laboratory, forged to create a visionary plan and practical planning tools to promote habitat conservation, watershed health and recreational open space.

• Institute for Community-Based Research at Delta State University engages in projects to inform social change at the grassroots level.

• Just Connections--a partnership designed 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.

• National Center for Schools and Communities, at Fordham University, helps build the power and capacity of low-income parents and communities to improve their children's schools.

• The Organize Indiana Project (OIP) is a jointly sponsored project focused on providing education, support services, and resources to unions in order to assist organizing efforts.

• PRAG: The Policy Research Action Group--a university-community partnership program using the resources of four Chicago universities to address urban problems in collaboration with community-based organizations.

• The Quality of Life Research Unit within the Centre for Health Promotion in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, carries out quality of life research that relates to communities, families, and individuals from a variety of population groups.

• Rural Women Making Change is a community-university research alliance in which community organization members and academics are co-researchers.

• The Scholar-Practitioner Program, of the Kellogg Foundation's Devolution Initiative, brings together activists and academics around the issue of welfare policy.

• Service Learning provides information resources on the expanding philosophy of linking university and college classrooms with community groups.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is launching a pilot program to help organizations within communities and university institutions combine forces and tackle issues they have identified as being of common, priority concern.

• Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods--University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods program.

• Trent Centre for Community-Based Education in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, facilitates community-based research and experiential learning, providing opportunities for students, faculty and local organizations to pool their resources and work together on community-inspired projects that enhance the social and economic health of the community.

• Trinity Center for Neighborhoods--of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

• The Tufts Community Research Center seeks to involve Tufts faculty and students from across all seven schools of the university in research done in collaboration with community partners.

• The University Neighborhood Housing Program is a a collaboration by Fordham University and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition.  

• West Philadelphia Landscape Project is an action research program integrating research, teaching, and community service.

• The Working Group on Organizing, Social Movements, and the Academy, August 20-21, 1998, Davis, CA, USA.

• The Annual Reports Library, with links to corporate annual reports and other resources.

• Corporate Research Project also has a list of resources for doing corporate research.

• Integrity in Science seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry’s influence by identifying and disclosing conflicts of interest.

• Tools by the Calvert Group for researching mutual funds.

• Research Tools, provided by Corporate Watch.

• Geographic Information Systems Links, from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Newsletter.

• East Somerville Community Mapping Project--a nice example of participatory GIS.

• PPgis.net emphasizes participatory GIS.

• @Grassroots maintains a database on United States grassroots groups of various kinds.

• The Community Research Network, sponsored by the Loka Institute, is a transnational network of research and grassroots organizations conducting community-based research for social change. The CRN maintains an on-line database of community-based researchers.

• The Community Resource Guide, by the University Neighborhood Housing Program, has a collection of links to New York City local data sources and U.S. national data sources.

• The Contact Center Network has an interactive database where nonprofit and community organizations from around the world can tell about their activities and find each other. 

• Database Resource Page of the LINC Project is designed for Community Organizers that are wanting to learn how to effectively integrate a database into their work.

• Info Resources West Philadelphia, serving the data needs of the West Philadelphia Community.

• The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building. They have manuals on how to develop neigbhorhood level information systems as well as links to those doing it.

• RTK NET, The Right to Know Network--with a vast array of databases on environmental, campaign, and housing databases.

• United States Counties database, by the National Association of Counties.