The Campbell Collaboration

Campbell Collaboration Partnerships and Affiliations

The international Campbell Collaboration welcomes different kinds of affiliations and partnerships with groups that have aims that accord with those of the Collaboration. These include: producing systematic reviews of evidence and ensuing its quality; encouraging the production of higher quality evidence; and encouraging the use of high quality evidence to assist people in making decisions.

C2 has a Nordic Campbell Center (NC2) in Copenhagen, and partnership agreements with:

C2 also values its strong affiliations with the Graduate School of Education and the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Society for Experimental Criminology (C2 Crime and Justice Group) whose new journal publishes systematic reviews.

Funding and Other Kinds of Support


Since its inception the Campbell Collaboration Colloquium has been generously supported by a number organizations for which the Collaboration expresses its appreciation. Members of the Campbell Collaboration come from many different kinds of organizations—government agencies, non-profit research, universities and research institutes, for-profit research entities, private,  public and voluntary social service organizations. These organizations, in fifteen countries, are an important source of financial, organizational, human resources, and in-kind support.

  • The Norwegian Knowledge Center for Health Services provides ongoing financial support for the Campbell Collaboration and the work of the C2 Social Welfare Group.
  • The University of Pennsylvania has provided C2 with human resources, website development, and financial support for Campbell Colloquia via the Graduate School of Education, the School of Social Work, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the Fels Center for Government.
  • The Swedish Council for Social Research (FAS) and Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare dedicated funds to the Campbell Collaboration's development, including the Colloquium in 2002. The Center for Evaluation of Social Services of the National Board financed a full time Nordic coordinator as well as committing the time of one of its research directors to advance the idea of a Collaboration center in the Nordic countries.
  • The American Institutes for Research provides financial, human resources, and in-kind infrastructural support for the Campbell Collaboration, as well as conference support for the annual Campbell Colloquium.
  • The Jerry Lee Foundation supports the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, the C2 Crime  and Justice Group, and the Jerry Lee Lecture at the annual Campbell Colloquium.
  • The Smith Richardson Foundation has made grants to C2 Methods Center, the C2 Quasi-Experiment group, the C2 Education Group University of Pennsylvania and the Social Welfare Group.
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has invested in the synergy of interests between the Foundation and the Campbell Collaboration. It has augmented the proposal to explore whether and how often-social randomized trials include health variables as outcomes.
  • The Rockefeller Foundation has invested in development of a C2 network and conference on place-based randomized trials, in reconfiguring the C2 website, and in market research.
  • The Knight Foundation has provided a grant to continue development of The Campbell Collaboration Library and make it more accessible to policy makers, practitioners, journalists and the public.
  • The Hewlett Foundation has also contributed to various aspects of the Campbell Collaboration’s work.
  • The UK Home Office has contributed financial and in kind to the progress of the C2 Crime and Justice Group.