Community Research and Learning Network
 Major
funding for Trinity’s Service-Learning Program
is provided in part by the DC-area CoRAL (Community Research and
Learning) Network.
Founded by Sociology Professor Sam Marullo (then-Director of the
Volunteer and Public Center at Georgetown University) the CoRAL
Network is a consortium of community-based organizations and higher
education institutions in the Washington DC metro area engaged in
community-based learning and research to promote positive social
change and advance their social justice missions in the national
capital region.
The CoRAL Network started off as a project at Georgetown University
with a five-year grant awarded by the Bonner Foundation in 1997
to the university's Volunteer and Public Service Center (which is
now the Center for Social Justice, Research, Teaching, and Service)
with a goal of encouraging the use of Georgetown's resources and
research abilities to further the social change efforts of local
community-based organizations and thus strengthening university-community
ties.
CoRAL University Members:
- American University
- Catholic University
- Georgetown University
- George Washington University
- Trinity
- University of the District of Columbia
- University of Maryland
The CoRAL Network’s Executive Director is Elizabeth Shrader.
Prior to joining CoRAL in 2003, she most recently served as the
Policy and Development Director at the Council of Latino Agencies
(CLA) in Washington, DC. Ms. Shrader has lived and worked throughout
Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. She has researched and
published on a wide range of topics, including: adolescent fertility
and reproductive behavior in developing countries; the health and
economic impacts of gender violence; urban social policy and social
capital accumulation; gendered dimensions of complex humanitarian
and natural disasters; and organizational management for the non-profit
sector in developing countries.
Visit the CoRAL Network online: www.coralnetwork.org
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