Our Website has Videos
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We are pleased to announce a new feature on our web site - video. Our objective is to create a series of thought-provoking visual "essays" that showcase our work and demonstrate
our passion for what we do. Topics include The Importance of Community, Community Leadership and the 5Cs. See the videos here.
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A Focus of Our Research
How Do You Know When Your Organization is Culturally Competent?
It's a tough question to answer but a necessary one if your organization is to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. For the past several years, Community Science has been researching this issue as well as working on projects that have focused on evaluating the cross-cultural competency of organizations and other initiatives.
Based on our work, including an extensive literature review, we are in the process of developing an organizational cross-cultural competency assessment, a unique tool that assesses the readiness of organizations to engage in an effort to build its cross-cultural competency and measures the cross-cultural competency of the organizations, not the individuals within the organization. Continue reading...
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Works in Progress
Building Healthy Communities: Capacity for Community Change Assessment - Community Science has been leading the research and development of the instruments and methods to assess the capacity of The California Endowment's 14 Building Healthy Communities sites in order to benchmark and plan place based capacity building. Community Science's role is to receive and analyze assessment questionnaires and then report the results in an easy to read and use format.
Next Generation Community Change - Community Science is assisting the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to determine what they and other funders have learned and are experimenting with in order to create community changes that provide opportunities for children and their caregivers. The culmination of this foundation wide learning process will come in January with a retreat where we expect to develop strategic options for future community change work based on evidence from the research and the practical experience of other funders. | Continue reading...
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About Us
At Community Science, our group practice of social change professionals is committed to building healthy, just, and equitable communities. Our practice areas include:- Community & Systems Change
- Immigrant Integration
- Innovating for Social Impact
- Social Return on Investment
Our services include: -
Research and evaluation, and evaluation capacity building
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Consultation and technical assistance
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Training
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Educational products
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Performance monitoring and learning systems
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Initiative support
Connecting Knowledge with Social Change
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Conferences & Webinars of note:
The Evaluator's Institute, January 12-22, 2011, Washington, DC; for information: TEI
Unification through Adversity, January 27-28, 2011, Seattle, WA; for information: National Multicultural Conference & Summit
Call for Abstracts,
APHA Annual Meeting ("Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds and Bodies"), Submission
deadline February 7-11, 2011; Abstract Submission Form
Global Health & Innovation Conference, April 16-17, 2011, New Haven, CT; for information: Unite for Sight
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