Street Art Poster of ICBO Research Results

ICBO poster by community artist Bennie Guzmán.  

Asociaciones para Lograr un Impacto

Asociaciones para Lograr un Impacto
 es un manual para los científicos, educadores informales de ciencia y especialistas de alcance trabajando con comunidades diversas y marginadas. Puedes descargarlo aquí. 

Colaboraciones Significativas (Meaningful Collaborations)

El manual para líderes comunitarios, educadores y defensores de la equidad, inclusión y diversidad, titulado Colaboraciones Significativas (Meaningful Collaborations) ya está disponible en español. Puedes descargarlo aquí.

Swivel Your Mindset

NOISE Project Co-Pi John Annoni (Camp Compass Academy) shares a lesson about coping during these times: "Swivel your mindset so that you can start to unwind and untangle your life in this tough time... and to hold on."

ICBO Results: Authenticity and Motivation

Understanding motivation for forming collaborations and doing ‘outreach’ in underserved communities is important. Authenticity is especially important in the language people use (does it signal superiority?), actions they take (are you genuinely interested in connecting?), and when dealing with conflicts. Taking time to express gratitude is important.

Video edited by Guava Rhee (Engaged Cornell student). Actor: Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director of La Joven Guardia del Teatro and community researcher member of the ICBOs.

ICBO Results: Third Best Man

Our research also indicates that science institutions will often send someone who has no experience in the community, no authority within the institution, and no decision making-power, to represent their institution at key planning and negotiation meetings.

Video edited by Guava Rhee (Engaged Cornell student). Actor: Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director of La Joven Guardia del Teatro and community researcher member of the ICBOs.

The Robin Hood Approach explained

We keep sharing our research findings in a series of creative videos. This time, the ICBOs express the Robin Hood Approach:

Community researchers found that many community organizations will put up with collaborations and partnerships that are untrustworthy, inequitable, frustrating, and lack transparency in order to obtain funds and opportunities that they feel can be channeled directly to their communities - ICBO Research.

Video edited by Guava Rhee (Engaged Cornell student). Actor: Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, director of La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino, Inc., and community researcher member of the ICBOs.

ICBO Research results: Trust and Transparency

Our research shows that developing genuine trust is one of the most important parts of a successful partnership between a STEM institution and a community-based organization. Because of a long history of inequities, developing trust needs to be a long-term commitment. There has to be continuity, openness, and a real desire to make it happen. Working through challenges successfully and spending time getting to know each other personally (socially outside of the project) increases trust.

Download our ICBO Community Review Board Agreement of Non-Negotiables

What is non-negotiable as we undertake community-based participatory research?

Click on the image above to download the ICBOs  Community Review Board Agreement of Non-Negotiables that guide research and evaluation in our communities. We believe these key agreements will guide equitable, inclusive research that ultimately benefits our communities. This agreement will guide our work -- much like Institutional Review Boards might do so at universities and research institutions, but from the community perspective.

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