Resources and tools for community-academic partnerships

This toolkit from Child Fund International details how to involve children in community-engaged research (CEnR).

Toolkit for Performing Community Outreach & Engagement  

This slide deck from Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsion-Madison provides an overview of CEnR.

A Resource Guide for Researchers and Community-Based Organizations

This guide from Emory Winship Cancer Institute gives an overview of CEnR, building trust with the community, and considerations for both researchers and community stakeholders. 

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) 101

This slide deck from Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities gives an overview of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and the benefits of CEnR.

Rural Health Research Toolkit

University of North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute provides resources for designing accessible research, implementing linguistically competent practices, and partnering with rural communities. 

Community-Engaged Research: A Quick-Start Guide for Researchers

University of California, San Francisco's Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute provides and overview of CEnR, rationale for determining if CEnR is a good fit for researchers, the challenges of CEnR, and how to initiate community-academic partnerships.

Are We Ready? A Toolkit for Academic-Community Partnerships in preparation for Community-Based Participatory Research 

This toolkit from Pacific Islander Center of Primary Care Excellence gives an overview of CBPR and equitable partnerships. 

Research for Organizing Toolkit: Participatory Action Research 

Research for Organizing details the CEnR process and how to use data for action. 

Particpatory Community Building Guidebook

This guidebook from the Jeder Institute details conscious co-designing, asset-based community-led & other community building practices, the art of hosting & other participatory practices, and organizing as living systems & other self-organizing systems.  

Developing Community Partnerships Toolkit             

This toolkit from Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Community Engagement gives an overview of CEnR, strategies for both researchers and community stakeholders, dissemination, and frequently asked questions.    

Community-Engaged Research Worksheet

This worksheet from CHECK-UP can be used as a planning document for researchers who want to initiate a community-engaged project. 

PCORI Engagement Rubric

This rubric from PCORI offers insights on how to include engagement in multiple steps of research. 

These worksheets from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute help researchers develop a stakeholder engagement plan. 

Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships

This toolkit from the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas provides guidance for creating a partnership among different organizations to address a common goal.

Public Health: Reaching Across Sectors

Strategies for communicating effectively about public health and cross-sector collaboration with professionals from other sectors from the Framework Institute.

Describing Your Community and Honoring Your Partner's Knowledge

This video from Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement helps community-engaged scholars define community, understand intersectionality, and thoughtfully think through how community contributes knowledge in a joint partnership.

Building Effective Multi-Stakeholder Research Teams

This webpage from PCORI has multiple resources to help develop an active and effective multi-stakeholder team. 
 

Community Stakeholder Guidelines for Engaging with Researchers

This guide from Evelyn Cruz & Lori Bakken helps community stakeholders assess researchers, understand what to expect from research collaborations, and how researchers should respect the community.

CEnR: A Quick Start Guide for Community-Based Organization

This guide from the University of California, San Fransisco explains the goals and usefulness of community-engaged research and how to determine if it is right for your organization.

CEnR: A Quick Start Guide for Community-Based Clinicians

This guide from the University of California, San Francisco explains how community-engaged research can be useful for clinicians and how to decide whether or not to partner with researchers.

Community Member's Guide to Submitting a Research Grant Application

This guide from Tufts University Clinical & Translation Science Institute walks community members through the process of applying for research grants. 

Self-Assessment: A Community Organization Member Looking for a Collaborative Research Partnership

This self-assessment tool from Tufts University Clinical & Translation Science Institute helps community organizations understand how partnering with a researcher might help to meet the needs of/improve community and how to engage in an in‐depth research project.

Self-Assessment: A Community Organization Member Participating in a Research Study

This self-assessment tool from Tufts University Clinical & Translation Science Institute is for a community member who has been asked by a researcher to participate in/help with a research study and questions they should ask before participating. 

Building Your Capacity: Advancing Research Through Community-Engagement Curriculum Guide

This curriculum guide from Tufts University Clinical & Translational Science Institute gives an overview on how to create and teach a research capacity building course for community partners. 

Research Fundamentals: Preparing You to Successfully Contribute to Research

This resource from PCORI offers multiple modules for anyone new to health or patient-centered research. 

Memorandum of understanding

How to Design a Community Academic Partner MOU Form

This resource from University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical and Translational Science Institute gives an overview on MOUs and why they are needed. 

Memorandum of Understanding Samples

This resource from the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities gives examples of MOUs used in community-academic partnerships. 

Memorandum of Understanding for Mutually Beneficial Research

This guide from the Aspen Institute gives an overview of MOUs, the purpose they serve, and how MOUs can assist with data management and sharing. 

Compensation

Compensation Framework

This tool from PCORI provides a structure to compensating partners based on their level of involvement in a community-academic partnership.

Budgeting

Budget Item recommendations from CCPH CBPR listserv members

This resource from the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities lists considerations for writing a budget for a CBPR project. 

National Institutes of Health Budget Guidelines

This resource from the NIH gives an overview of how to write a budget. This resource is helpful if you are applying for NIH funding.

Budgeting for Engagement Activities 

This guide from PCORI details budgeting considerations for community-academic partnerships. 

Applying for grants

Applying for Grants

This resource from the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas reviews grantwriting tips and strategies.

Community-Engaged Research Funding & Grant Writing Tips & Strategies

This slide deck from the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities gives an overview on funding CEnR and how to write grants for CEnR.

Funding

Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program

PCORI funds research with a strong commitment to engaging community. This site features some of their engagement awards.

Data Sharing: Creating Agreements in Support of Community-Academic Partnerships

This resource from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute & Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center can be used as a guide to create a data sharing and management plan.

How to: Include Community Partners in Data Collection

This resource from University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical and Translational Science Institute reviews data collection and management from a broad study perspective.

2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy

This policy from the NIH provides best practices for data sharing and management.

Intramural Data Management and Sharing Plan Template

This template can be used for a data sharing and management plan, that follows the 2023 NIH policy.

Collaborative Data Analysis

This slide deck from Chicagoland Communities for Research Alliance details how to include community in data analysis.

Evaluating the Initiative

This toolkit from the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas aids in developing an evaluation of a community program or initiative.

Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives

This resource from the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas provides four chapters on how to use evaluation in CEnR.

Evaluating Community Engagement in an Academic Medical Center

This journal article by Szilagyi, et al. overviews the benefits of community-engagement and the need for regular evaluation.

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)- Evaluation Metrics

This manual provides examples of tangible metrics that can be used for both planning and evaluation. Example logic models are used as a means to develop evaluation metrics for cross-cutting PEPH themes such as Partnerships, Leveraging, Products and Dissemination, Education and Training and Capacity Building. 

Authorship

Authorship practices for community-engaged research

This resource from Canadian Sciences Publishing describes what authorship is and how to appropriately determine authorship when working with community partners.

Who are the Authors when Traditional Knowledge is Documented?

This resource from Henry P. Huntington gives considerations in determining authorship.

Academic journals

Top Seven Journals That Publish on Community-Engaged Scholarship

This source from California State University, San Marcos lists seven journals that regularly publish CEnR.

Writing About Community-Engaged Research for Academic Journals

This slide deck from Darius Tandon overviews key considerations in publishing CEnR

Guidelines for Writing Manuscripts About Community-Based Participatory Research for Peer-Reviewed Journals

This academic article from Bordeaux et al. present practical guidelines for strong CBPR manuscripts.

Strategizing on Where to Publish CES (Community-Engaged Scholarship)

This video from Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement reviews considerations in choosing academic journals to submit to.

What Makes Community-Engaged Scholarship Publishing Special?

This video from Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement takes a deeper dive into including how publishing community-engaged work differs from traditional publishing, and how to explain community partnerships and their contributions in your writing.

Articulating and Linking your CES to Foundational Scholarship

This video from Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement discusses the importance of having foundational theories guiding your community-engaged work and how to communicate this in manuscripts. 

Writing With Your Community Partners and Including Community Partner Voices

This video from Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement discussed ways community partners can contribute to academic partnerships.

Other forms of dissemination

Collaborative Research Dissemination Examples

This resource from Northwestern Medicine and the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities gives an overview of different publishing pathways for community-academic partnerships.

Engaging Community Partners in Preparing Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

This slide deck from Northwestern Medicine & Progress in Community Health Partnerships examines how to engage community stakeholders in publishing.

Communicating Beyond Journals and Peers

This toolkit from Michigan State University's Communications provides tools to you help community-engaged scholars communicate their research beyond traditional academic sources. 

Guide for Engaging with Research Partners about Data and Analysis: Activities to Support Research Partner Involvement in Data Analysis and Interpretation

This guide from PCORI offers considerations in study design, data analysis planning, data interpretation, and disseminating findings from a community-engagement lens. 

Anti-Racist Community-Academic Research Reflective Practice Tool

This tool helps researchers implement strategies to ensure racial equity and anti-racism in their projects and prevent harm to communities they work with.

Racial Equity in Research Engagement: Resource Catalog

This catalog has an extensive list of resources related to racial equity in research, including communication guides, historical considerations, engagement strategies, webinars, and trainings.

Racial Justice (Resources, Reports, Recommendations)

This page offers various resources related to racial equity, such as toolkits, guides for having conversations about race, messaging strategies, and tips for effective advocacy.

Talking about Poverty: Narrative, Counter-Narratives, and Telling Effective Stories

Frameworks Institute lays out common narratives and counter narratives around poverty and how to communicate about poverty to avoid enforcing harmful narratives. 

How To: Translate Research Documents for Non-English Speaking Participants

This resource offers important considerations for translating documents effectively, and how to have inclusive and effective language on research materials.

Do No Harm Project

This body of work provides guides for researchers/analysts to avoid enforcing harmful stereotypes or misrepresentations of groups through data visualization, and instead utilize DEI frameworks.

A Typology of Publicly Engaged Research

This paper from National Center for the Study of University Engagement at Michigan State University details publicly engaged scholarship. 

Becoming a Tenured Professor

Resources, Workshops, and Tenure path advice from the National Institute for Faculty Equity.

Why the Evaluation of Faculty Community Engaged Research Need Clear Criteria

This discussion from the Scholars Strategy Network overviews the evaluation methods and strategies for community-engaged research in higher education. 

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Engaged Scholarship: Implications for Promotion and Tenure

This slide deck from Indiana University-Purdue University describes concepts in research evaluation and the way metrics are used in promotion and tenure, as well as ways to better evaluate researchers in the promotion and tenure process. 

CIRTification: Community Involvement in Research Training

This training from the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago is a human research protections training program designed especially for community partners.

The PATIENTS Professors Academy

The PATIENTS Professors Academy Program of University of Maryland outlines the core principles of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) and how it can be applied to a diverse older adult population. 

Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship

Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement offers an annual summer intensive on community-engaged scholarship. Community-engaged scholars and practitioners with interests in community-engaged research and community-engaged teaching and learning, including service-learning, informal learning, and community-engaged research in courses are welcome.  

Consult Request

The Collaborative Center for Health Equity at the University of Wisconsin, Madison offers consultations on community-based research projects. 

Community Advisory Board Consultancy

The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging's Healthier Black Elders Center has a long history in Detroit of working with older adult members, offering health education and working with researchers to conduct research projects. Our Community Advisory Board is a wealth of wisdom and willing to share what we’ve learned.

How to Design a Partnered Consent Form

How to Design a Partnered Consent Form from the University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical and Translational Science Institute discusses ways a consent form can be more participant friendly while still meeting IRB approval.

Making Research Patient-Centered

This worksheet from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute comprises three steps to ensure research is designed to be patient-centered. 

De-Jargonizer

The "De-jargonizer" developed by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and HIT–Holon Institute of Technology helps bridge the gap between scientists and community members and audiences. 

Translating a Publication to a Lay Language Summary   

The International Alliance of Academies for Childhood Disabilities provides this resource describing how to create a lay language summary of your research.

How To: Translate Research Documents for Non-English Speaking Participants

This resource offers important considerations for translating documents effectively, and how to have inclusive and effective language on research materials.