Community-Based Participatory Research at CCNY
Benefits to Community Partners

When it comes to Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), community partners are motivated by a range of meaningful opportunities. In particular, this includes the potential to:

• Access campus resources (research expertise)

• Advocate for policy change

• Build bridges across sociocultural/political barriers

• Obtain funding

• Demonstrate/address inequities and injustices

•  Demonstrate the impact and public value of a particular program or community-based initiative (evaluation)

•  Improve services and programs

• Identify gaps in services

•  Develop an intervention to a community-identified problem

• Develop empirical evidence/data needed to strengthen existing advocacy and policy change efforts.