The Global Action Research Center

The Global Action Research Center (Global ARC) is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego, California, registered in SAM.gov and dedicated to bridging academic research and community engagement. As a tax-exempt corporate entity, the organization specializes in facilitating collaborative research initiatives that create meaningful connections between academic institutions and local community stakeholders. Global ARC serves as a critical intermediary that helps design and implement community-focused research projects, with a particular emphasis on creating bi-directional learning systems that enable community residents and academic scientists to collaboratively identify and address critical community issues.

Through its federal grant sub-awards with the University of California, San Diego, Global ARC has consistently provided specialized community engagement and research coordination services across multiple projects. Their recent grant work includes designing and facilitating community advisory board meetings, recruiting and onboarding community research partners, coordinating research presentations, and supporting Spanish-speaking advisory board members through translation and interpretation services. Specifically, in recent awards dating from 2020 to 2025, Global ARC has been instrumental in supporting research implementation strategies, monitoring program effectiveness, and ensuring authentic co-creation between community members and scientific research teams. Their work has involved detailed activities such as developing meeting agendas, moderating collaborative sessions, conducting team-building activities, reviewing research materials, and offering recommendations to investigative teams about implementation strategies across various research domains, with a particular focus on public health and community-driven research initiatives.