UCR Center for Community Solutions

The Center for Community Solutions is a research center housed within the UCR School of Public Policy.

Our mission is to answer challenging public policy questions that are of the utmost relevance and importance to communities in Inland Southern California. We believe in the promise of our region and aim to contribute to its growth and prosperity by helping to ground public decisions in credible research, fostering knowledge exchange across diverse constituencies, and developing the next generation of policy leaders.

The Center for Community Solutions strives to embody the School of Public Policy’s motto—solutions for the region, solutions for the world—by providing research services and resources to improve the lives of residents in our local region, while cultivating generalizable knowledge that can improve public policy in communities throughout the world.