A collaborative project led by the University of Waterloo to co-create futures thinking tools in collaboration with institutions across Southern Africa in countries impacted by rapidly intensifying cyclones (Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). CCBR’s role was to manage this community-university partnership in such a way that community-based research principles are upheld.

At CCBR, we partnered with the City of Brantford to develop a sustainability planning package designed to strengthen the long-term funding readiness and organizational sustainability of local service providers. The package was created as a practical, adaptable resource to help organizations navigate future funding opportunities while building confidence in grant development, program planning, and reporting processes.

CCBR conducted a 360 Degree Performance Assessment for an Associate Vice President of Research at York University. We gathered feedback through surveys and optional interviews to support her professional development and pursuit of future opportunities.

CCBR and Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE) partnered on a community-based research project exploring barriers, promising practices, and supports shaping employment outcomes for persons experiencing disability in Canada. Through interviews with job seekers, employees, and employers, the project centred lived experiences and shared findings to support dialogue and action toward more inclusive workplaces.

CCBR contributed to this Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council SSHRC, Connection Grant project (Led by Cameron McCordic at the University of Waterloo) by co-developing and co-facilitating a four-part webinar series on horizon scanning, futures thinking, sustainable urban transitions, and artificial intelligence applications.

CCBR supported Food Banks Canada in strengthening its capacity to meaningfully, equitably, ethically, and sustainably design and facilitate a Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to support evaluation, program design, research, and advocacy efforts.

CCBR, in partnership with the Durham Local Immigration Partnership (DLIP), recently developed a comprehensive evaluation framework to assess the impact of DLIP and its initiatives in alignment with its 2025–2030 Community and Inclusion Plan.

CCBR partnered with the New Brunswick Multicultural Council to evaluate the Settlement Workers in the Schools program, working across five regions in the province with newcomer students grade K-12. The evaluation focused on assessing SWIS service delivery and outcomes for newcomer students, parents, educators, and SWIS staff.

CCBR partnered with Wading through the Weeds: A Pregnancy, Breastfeeding/Chest-feeding and Parenting with Cannabis Study to support the co-design of a 1-day research forum for public health and allied health care providers as well as pregnant and breast/chest feeding individuals who consume cannabis.

CCBR partnered with Kentro Christian Network on a research project led by Graf-Martin, exploring Canadian Christians' perceptions of global poverty. CCBR strengthened the project's framing, integrity, and usefulness by providing coaching and feedback throughout the research process. Our team supported collaborative, community-based data collection through tool development, data analysis, report preparation, and knowledge mobilization.

The Pedagogies of Community Engagement partnership gathers community-engaged (CE) facilitators and academic researchers facilitating participatory action research, popular education, and/or community arts and cultural production in communities across Canada to explore approaches to community-based facilitation. This 3 year partnership grant worked towards developing a network of community-based facilitators across Canada.

CCBR partnered with the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging (McMaster University), Thrive Group Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Innovation, and older adult partners on several initiatives to support academic-organizational partnership development in the health and aging sector including but not limited to: organizational database development, an internal tool to assess research requests, and a full-day event to support the training of researchers and trainees in building more meaningful and sustainable research partnerships with organizations in the health and aging sector.