Founded in 2009, The Global Action Research Center is a social change organization that works to connect grassroots organizing to policy makers and researchers by helping people find their voices in the decision-making and dialogue around their communities.
The Global ARC is guided by a philosophy dedicated to eradicating root causes of poverty, social injustice and environmental degradation. At the heart of this philosophy is a proactively creative commitment to linking knowledge to action for the common good.
We promote research and action focused on community-building and sustainability solutions, and we work to ensure that such solutions are networked, systems-oriented, globally-minded, and ecologically-sound.
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Thinking Globally
Read more about the methodology behind everything we do
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Acting Locally
Learn about our current programs in the San Diego community
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Supporting Research
Find out more about the importance of civically-engaged research
Latest Activity
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Berry Good Food Foundation's Local Food Leader Award
The Berry Good Food Foundation has chosen our very own garden manager, Thi Vo, as one of this year’s Local Food Leader!
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NEWSLETTER JUNE 2024
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OVGG Newsletter 2023
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2nd Annual Wise Elder Changemaker Awards
On May 25th, 2023, the Global Action Research Center’s President/CEO, Paul L Watson Jr., and Associate Executive Director, William T Oswald received the 2023 Wise Elder Changemaker Award from University of California, San Diego. This award is in acknowledgement of the Global ARC’s 10 years of social change work within San Diego.
In 2020 the Global ARC put out a call for submissions, collecting local, domestic, and international community responses to the murder of George Floyd. These responses were compiled in “The Path Forward”, a book exploring how we can look back at our post to move forward.
