Several centers located at Northeastern University are engaged in community-based research focusing on different social problems and population groups. These include, for example, the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Center for Community Health Education Research and Services, and Center for Innovation in Urban Education.

Northeastern's Center for Experiential Education and Academic Advising (www.casdn.neu.edu/cea) promotes student participation in community-based research as part of its broader interest in applied learning.

The Loka Institute, located in Amherst, Massachusetts, is currently the foremost advocate of community-based research in the United States and maintains a web site with extensive information on the topic, discussion forums and newsletters, and access to a Community Research Network (www.loka.org).

A number of private foundations are supportive of community-based research. One example is the Community Research Project of The Bonner Foundation (www.bonner.org).

More and more universities around the country are also developing community-based research initiatives and provide useful information on courses and projects. See, for example, the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service located at Georgetown University. The Policy Research Action Group is a consortium of universities in Chicago engaged in community-based research (www.luc.edu/curl/prag). For information on the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia, go to: www.pkp.ubc.ca.

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