Research in Action is partnering with Constellation Lab (CoLab) to lead a study on solutions to poverty to enable communities to thrive. Working with Co-Lab staff and community organizations, RIA is collaborating with youth and families with lived experiences of poverty to shift investments from philanthropy to align with the visions of directly impacted communities and end intergenerational poverty?

In 2021, the Bush Foundation awarded $100 million to seed two community trust funds for Black and Indigenous individuals facing wealth disparities due to historic racial injustices. Nexus Community Partners is responsible for distributing $50 million to Black individuals living in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Research in Action is working with Nexus to provide guidance on decolonizing evaluations processes to the group’s Advisory Committee, as well as create and execute an Evaluation Plan for the Community Trust Fund.

The West Side Community Organization has conducted a series of interviews on the displacement of residents from the West Side Flats in the early 1960s to begin the work of telling the community’s story. WSCO has now partnered with Research in Action to support the West Side Community Advisory Council in painting a fuller picture of the current state of the West Side neighborhoods for the purpose of identifying what reparative solutions the community seek in order to restore and heal itself.