Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
FUNDING: Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) 2025/Round 18 Community Research Seed Grants
Info Sessions: Oct 14, 29, Nov 8. Cycle 1 Deadline 11/22
ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange: November 8, 12-3 PM
Join the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) at Northwestern University in North Lawndale. RSVP: https://bit.ly/Nov8rsvp
ARCC Learning Exchange: March 13
Community-Engaged Research Learning Exchange
March 13, 2024
9:30am-1:00pm
Timothy Community Corporation
ARCC 2024/Round 17 Cycle 1 Seed Funding Supports 7 Grant Awards
Summaries for each funded partnership are available here.
ARCC Welcomes Eight New Steering Committee Members
Click here to learn more about our new and continuing members and they are highlighted in purple in this graphic.
Announcing Recipients of ARCC 2023 Seed Grants - Cycle 2
In Round 16 Cycle 2, ARCC awarded $109,000 for 9 seed grants. Summaries for each funded partnership are available here.
Established in 2008, the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) supports authentic community-academic research partnerships between Chicagoland communities and Northwestern University that benefit the people being researched and improve health and equity. ARCC advocates for a collaborative approach to research that honors, is driven by, and shares power with communities, as local, cultural, and lived experience experts. Guided by a Steering Committee of Chicagoland community- and faith-based organizations, public agencies and Northwestern scientists, ARCC supports community-academic research partnerships by providing partnership facilitation, capacity-building resources and technical assistance, seed grants, monthly information and resource updates, and advocacy for supportive structural and institutional systems and policies in the research enterprise. ARCC is a program of the Center for Community Health (CCH) and serves Northwestern’s Institute for Public Health & Medicine (IPHAM) and the Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS). We strive to uphold the CCH Principles of Engagement in our approach and the research we support.
ARCC Efforts
Please also see the center's pages for community-engaged research opportunities and resources.
ARCC Steering Committee
The ARCC Steering Committee is comprised of:
- Community-and faith-based organizations: Access Living, The Blue Hat Foundation, Cambodian Association of Illinois, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, Heartland Alliance, Inner City Muslim Action Network, Metropolitan Asian Family Services, The Night Ministry, Southwest Organizing Project, Taskforce Prevention & Community Services
- Public agencies: Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago Public Schools
- Northwestern University faculty and staff: Elizabeth Addington, PhD, Cory D Bradley, PhD, Lisa Azu-Popow, Ashley Knapp, Tarneka Manning MEd, Krystal Pena, Theresa Sukal-Moulton, DPT PhD, Faith Summersett-Ringgold, PhD, Sarah Welch, MPH, India Willis, MSN MPH
Learn more about our Steering Committee members.
Contact Us
Jen Brown, MPH
Director
jenbrown@northwestern.edu
Sherida Morrison, MA, MS
Associate Director
sherida.morrison@northwestern.edu
TBD
Community Partnership Coordinator
Interested in learning more about ARCC? We’d be happy to set up some time to chat! Please send an email to us at arcc@northwestern.edu and a member from our team will be in contact with you.