What is it?
The Community Research for Health Equity (CRHE) initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), supports community-led research that identifies and addresses health inequities rooted in structural racism. CRHE strengthens the capacity of community organizations, researchers, and advocates to define research priorities, design studies, and share findings in ways that reflect community context, culture, and experience.
What Change Matrix does
Change Matrix (CM) leads the learning and evaluation strategy for CRHE, co-developing tools and approaches grounded in Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE). We facilitate:
- Cross-site learning among grantees, funders, and partners
- Support communities in using data to tell their own stories
- Identify shared patterns across projects that inform systems-level insights.
Our role bridges individual project learnings with collective understanding, helping to shape how funders and institutions engage with community-led research as a driver of health equity.
Why we love this work
This work centers community knowledge as evidence and reinforces our belief that the people closest to the issues are best positioned to lead change. CRHE embodies what it means to co-create learning grounded in trust, reflection, and equity—helping to shift how research is defined, conducted, and used to advance healthier, more just communities.
