1. Finding Community Voice in A Global World: Linking Grassroots Projects

2. Collaborative Research as an opportunity to challenge the “global trump card”  Increasingly decisions made beyond the local level pgovernment decisions pcorporate decisions  National and world events have impact at local level  But local events also have and can have an impact at regional, national, and international levels

3. Collaborative Research as an opportunity to challenge the “global trump card;” it’s a matter of….  not sitting back since “it’s all decided somewhere else”  creating a grassroots voice at local, regional, national, and international levels  strengthening networks in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and other areas

4. Loyola University of ChicagoCenter for Urban Research & Learning Community voice is missing in national and international policy-making process  National policy developed by “inside- the-beltway” think tanks and elite universities  Difficulties in community-based organizations accessing national/international policy-making circles

5. We have the potential for creating “local-to-local” international policy making networks by weaving together university:community collaboratives at the community level.

6. Loyola University of ChicagoCenter for Urban Research & Learning Creating grassroots-anchored international policy-making networks This is made possible by….  improved access to sophisticated communications systems  increased sophistication of community-based organization leadership, national/international connections more possible  increased access of faculty and students to resources to connect them to international networks

7. What are the implications for local-to- global networks?  For community organizations: pregularizes communication with other organizations with possible different, but useful, problem-solving strategies pprovides information from other cities/countries that increases political influence locally pelevates the work of CBOs in eyes of potential supporters

8. What are the implications for local-to- global networks?  For universities: pprovides comparative perspective/data which is at the heart of most research pallows researchers to counter the bias in academia that sees community-based research as parochial and unimportant pcreates opportunities for students and faculty to increase knowledge base

9. Loyola University of ChicagoCenter for Urban Research & Learning Examples of growing linkages:University of Birmingham UK  Exchange visits of faculty, students and community leaders  Formal university exchange  Association House/Birmingham Settlement House project  Developing housing, racial/ethnic diversity projects

10. Loyola University of ChicagoCenter for Urban Research & Learning Examples of growing linkages: University of Technology Sydney  UTS Shopfront psimilar approaches to community- anchored research psharing project information pparallel interests in racial/ethnic diversity ppotential for interdisciplinary work: social sciences to engineering pPossible faculty, staff, community leader, student exchanges

11. Loyola University of ChicagoCenter for Urban Research & Learning Examples of Growing Linkages: LivingKnowledge Network  Science Shop Network  European Union connections  Differences between European & other approaches in U.S. and Australia