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Community Engagement Program

Supporting bi-directional community engagement to improve the relevance, quality, and impact of research.

Resources

Group Engagement and Facilitation Activities

  • Group Engagement Activities [PDF]
  • About: Use this guide to learn about different activities you can do to increase engagement in your group. Some activities are designed to help everyone get to know one another and network while others support sharing ideas and content development.

Coffee Chats

  • Coffee Chats [PDF]
  • About: Are you interested in co-hosting a coffee chat with us? Invite community members, researchers, and other interested folk to an informal gathering with food and conversation! Learn more about coffee chats using this guide.

Consultations 

  • Email community@catalyst.harvard.edu to schedule a consultation with the Community Engagement team.
  •  About: The Harvard Catalyst Community Engagement program offers consultations with researchers and community members to support community-engaged research, implementation, and evaluation projects. This includes helping community organizations identify methods and measures for evaluation, providing tips on developing community advisory boards, identifying strategies for building community engagement into study design, and providing feedback on community-engaged grant proposals.

Community Gathering Spaces

  • Nubian Markets cafe
  • Mass Adobon Boston Nature Center
  • We have successfully held multiple coffee chats/events at the Nubian Markets cafe in Roxbury and the Boston Nature Center in Mattapan and we highly recommend using their gathering spaces if you are ever looking to hold community-centered events.