Funding

Funding directories for social science research

Community Based Research

The following organizations have web-sites with extensive links and information related to community-based research:

Bonner Foundation has promoted the development of many community-university partnerships.

cbrnet.org is a national network that promotes community- university research partnerships.

Community Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

Community Research and Learning Network is a Washington D.C. based network that works to advance the social change missions of area nonprofits through community-based research.

COMM-ORG is the popular online conference on community organizing and community development.

Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education seeks to promote and support popular education and participatory research in order promote social justice.

Goshen College Department of Sociology and Anthropology has an excellent listing of participatory action research resources.

Institute for Community Research conducts research in collaboration with community partners in New England and beyond to promote justice and equity in a diverse, multiethnic, multicultural world.

Just Connections promotes grassroots democracy among residents of distressed mountain communities in Appalachia through participatory research and service.

Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.

Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization builds research and learning partnerships between universities and community- based organizations in the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota..

Participatory Action Research Network is the premier knowledge gateway for practitioners and scholars of action research around the world.

Policy Research Action Group is a consortium of community-based and community-focused nonprofit organizations and urban universities which currently include Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University of Chicago, National-Louis University, and University of Illinois, Chicago.

Sociological Initiatives Foundation
 c/o Prentice Zinn, Program Officer
 Grants Management Associates
 77 Summer Street, 8th Floor
 Boston, MA 02110
 617-426-7080x007
 pzinn@grantsmanagement.com