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The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)/Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS), in partnership with Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) announces the recipients of our 2^nd cycle of 2023 seed grants that support the development, capacity, and work of community-driven partnerships to improve health equity.  

·       Community Research Capacity-Building Grants support Chicagoland community organizations to build community research capacity

·       Partnership Development Grants support newly developing partnerships in relationship building, creation of partnership structure, exploration of shared areas of interest, and research capacity development

·       Research Pilots support to collect and analyze data and conduct other research activities collaboratively



Click here for summaries of the grants.

In Round 16, ARCC awarded $139,000 for 15 seed grants. Over our full 16 years of seed grant funding, ARCC has distributed almost $1.5 million to over 100 community-academic partnerships. The funded partnerships have led to increased community and academic capacity for engagement and research, new health improvements and policy changes, over $33.6 million in subsequent grant funding, and 45 peer-reviewed publications. To learn more about previous ARCC grants, scroll down on this webpage. Request for applications for 2024 ARCC Seed Grants will be released in Fall 2023.

ARCC seeks to recognize exemplary community research partnerships that use a community-driven or -engaged research approach and are working to improve health and equity. Partnerships must be nominated (self-nomination allowed). Nominations must be submitted by, or on behalf of, a team that includes the participation of at least one community collaborator and at least one Northwestern University faculty member (regular or adjunct). The partnership will be awarded a $500 prize and $100 to cover costs of printing a partnership poster to be exhibited at Northwestern’s Medical School Research Day (Sept 14, 2023).

Deadline: Friday, August 4, 2023

Details about the award and nomination process. Info about the award and past winners. 

CCH is saddened by the recent death of Dr. Katherine Kaufer Christoffel—a pillar of public health and pediatric advocacy in Chicago—who passed away on June 10, 2023. Kathy served as the inaugural director for our Community-Engaged Research Center (CERC), which was central to the creation of Northwestern University’s Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute in 2006. The CERC was one of nine vanguard centers critical in the formation of IPHAM in 2012, when it was then renamed the Center for Community Health (CCH). 

In addition to her leadership emphasizing the critical role of community engagement in research, Kathy had a passionate and unflagging determination to address health disparities on a community level that sparked numerous organizations and initiatives at Northwestern and Lurie Children's Hospital and throughout the Chicagoland area. She was associate director for Northwestern's Master of Public Health Program from the late 1990s through 2014 and helped establish numerous efforts within Lurie Children's Hospital including forming the Pediatric Practice Research Group (PPRG) in 1984, one of the nation’s very first primary care practice-based research networks, and founding the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicagoland Communities (CLOCC) in 2002. For her entire career, Kathy was a leader and advocate who stood firmly at the forefront of change. She was a trailblazer, mentor, and role model, and her career and life should be remembered as a shining example for all of us who strive to advance population health and health equity through research, education, and advocacy. Please join us in honoring the remarkable life and memory of Dr. Kathy Christoffel