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Powerful Collaboration
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. We connect people looking to better understand and solve complex social problems, and improve communities they care about.
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…
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…
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…
of those looking for informal collaboration reported that our match provided actionable information that was useful for tackling the challenge in their work
50%
Match
of those looking for a new formal collaboration chose to begin one with a research4impact match
55%
New Project
of those who started a new formal collaboration ended up completing a new project/initiative
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We’ll respond and set up time for a brief call so we can learn more.
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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…
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…
I have greatly appreciated the willingness of the researchers to have informal conversations with me as our team works to design a brand new program from the ground up…
My research focuses on the causes and consequences of election reform in the United States, particularly around its impact on the ability of voters to make their voices heard…
Ph.D. Student, Political Science and International Relations
Through research4impact I connected with two people at nonprofits who engage in lobbying in their everyday jobs to hear about the challenges they face on the ground…
Professor at U of Birmingham & Senior Research Fellow at UK’s Dept of Int’l Development
We were very happy to have Adam come to speak to us. The group was an eclectic mix of experienced research leaders, mid-career researchers looking to take their impact work to the next level…
‘How to be Helpful’ delivered highly valuable and practical tips for how we can manage our own teams better at ideas42, and also provided useful insights for our external work on designing and implementing innovations at large organizations…
Associate Professor of Political Science & Public Administration
Through R4i I found the perfect organization to work with that had overlapping interests, existing surveys to share, and mechanisms to share out my own survey…
Director of External Affairs, America’s Service Commissions
Thank you for a great presentation on “How to be Helpful”. You did a great job of making an important, yet complex topic, fun, relatable, and practical…
We had a great collaboration with researchers at MIT, using ballot data to analyze the impact of ranked choice voting. It’s already been presented as part of an engaging conference panel…
Volunteer chapter leader, Citizens Climate Education in Raleigh-Durham, NC
The practices really worked well. Once we understood the reasoning behind their design, they were easy to adopt and felt natural, even the first time I used them….
Having to gain insights that combines value-based principles, professional field experiences and personal drive was awesome and we are making steps to reboot our process…
Political Scientist at Washington Univ in St. Louis
I first heard about Research4Impact at an annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Adam was describing the goals of the organization and his excitement and passion about the project were contagious…
Institute for Change Leaders Founder & Former Member of Parliament in Canada
Adam provided excellent insight on how to build relationships for social impact. We know that building stronger organizations requires reaching out and having conversations with new people…
R4I matched us up with a researcher who offered some great ideas on how to structure member and Google surveys, and ways to compare the views of existing supporters with the general population…
We’re excited to apply our new skills in workshops, site visits, meetings, remote and in-person mentoring and many more interactions across our diverse stakeholder networks…
I appreciated that the workshop distilled a number of the social science insights we often talk about as critical to powerful volunteer programs into a single framework…
Impact and Learning Advisor, The Change.org Foundation (based in Australia)
A key question for us was how to measure saliency. In two short calls I got an overview of the research on this and was able to come up with several great ideas…
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…