Link Research Organization

Link Research Organization announces LINK. LINK matches university-based researchers to organizations with unmet research needs. LINK allows community-based organizations to post research projects and enables researchers to find meaningful research topics. Projects cover many academic disciplines.

During its pilot phase, LINK is marketing and evaluating its service in three primary metropolitan areas: New York City, Greater Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Using LINK involves three easy steps:

1. Organizations post research projects they would like to have done.

2. Researchers search the site for projects that match their interests and skills.

3. Researchers apply directly to organizations.

The benefits of LINK-facilitated relationships accrue to both sides: organizations benefit from student work and university-based resources, while researchers apply academic learning to real-world topics and projects.

Meanwhile, campuses and communities build productive relationships with each other. More specifically, LINK aims to:

• Provide a research resource that will assist nonprofit organizations and public agencies in their efforts to integrate strategic research, planning, and project evaluation into their work.
• Engage graduate, professional, and college students in projects that utilize their skills to address real needs while building networks in the community.
• Develop new LINKs and reinforce existing ties between universities and communities of which they are a part, thus enhancing the potential for collaborative work and outcomes in the nonprofit and academic sectors.

Community Agencies can register to post projects needing assistance:

• investigating program effectiveness;
• research on background issues;
• accumulating evidence and data to guide your strategic planning;
• surveying constituencies to shape program initiatives;
• concentrate thinking on issues of growing importance to your organization's operations, growth, and sustainability.

Students and Faculty can find opportunities to:

• interpret case studies
• write up literature reviews
• construct curricula
• generate feasibility studies
• produce project evaluations
• assess government policy analyze data
• make recommendations

For more information contact:
Kristin Bosetti
Michael McCrystal
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford Law School, Room 284
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
Phone: 650/ 725-5833
Fax: 650/ 292-2192
Email: Kristin@LINKResearch.org Email: Michael@LINKResearch.org