Powerful Collaborative Relationships
We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to improve communities they care about.
Our matchmaking creates powerful new collaborative relationships between researchers and practitioners, and researchers and policymakers. Since 2018 we’ve created over 350 new cross-sector collaborative relationships.
We invite you to get involved in two ways: (1) Request matchmaking yourself, and/or (2) Join our newsletter to learn about others’ matchmaking requests.
Matchmaking Opportunities
Ready to get started? Here are recent examples of the connections people are looking for.
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Success Stories
Miguel Pereira
Political Scientist at London School of Economics
Miguel reached out because he wanted to study when politicians act on climate. He matched with a practitioner who wanted to know the answer to this question as well. So they co-designed a study, and ultimately published the results…
Arlene Birt
Founder and Visual Storyteller
“Every field speaks in its own lingo – this seems particularly true in academic research. As a practitioner, the difference in language made it challenging for me to understand academic publications and connect to research in adjacent fields…”
Jaclyn Piatak
Professor of Political Science & Public Administration
Jaclyn reached out because she wanted to collaborate with a nonprofit to study how volunteer management practices influence volunteer satisfaction. She matched with two practitioners, co-designed studies with both of them, and published the results…
Kathy Chiron
President, League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia
“Collaborating with reasearch4impact is amazing! What started with one simple application on-line has developed into a very exciting project to help the League of Women Voters of DC develop a GOTV campaign…”
Jourdan Davis
Assistant Professor of Political Science & Public Administration
“I love talking to practitioners about the problems that they face outside of a research context. Research4impact allows me to chat with practitioners that face real problems…”
What We’re Learning
of those looking for new informal collaboration (knowledge exchange) reported that our match provided actionable information that was useful for advancing their work
of those looking for new formal collaboration (shared project/initiative) chose to begin one with a research4impact match
of those who started a new formal collaboration ended up completing a new project/initiative (data from our first five years of matchmaking: 2018-2023)
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