Research That Informs Action and Possibilities
What is working, whose perspectives are missing, and where are the opportunities for change?
CURE helps organizations, communities, government agencies, and funders ask meaningful questions, understand what is working, and determine what comes next. We bring research, program evaluation, and policy analysis together with community knowledge to inform strategy, strengthen programs, and guide decision-making and action.
We conduct landscape analyses, surveys, community asset mapping, interviews, focus groups, convenings, and listening sessions to understand complex challenges, assess program effectiveness, and identify promising approaches. CURE translates research into impact reports, issue briefs, data dashboards, toolkits, policy analysis rubrics, and resources partners can use. Each engagement begins with your goals and the people whose experiences are essential to understanding the issue. Whether assessing a program, exploring community priorities, or examining organizational practices, we develop an approach that connects rigorous inquiry with practical application.
Our Research and Evaluation Services
Research Design and Planning: Clarifying research questions, selecting methods, and developing surveys, interview guides, and assessment tools.
Community Needs and Asset Assessments: Identifying priorities, strengths, resources, and gaps through research and engagement with residents and community partners.
Program Evaluation and Learning: Assessing implementation, participant experiences, and outcomes to help partners strengthen programs and plan next steps.
Organizational Assessments: Examining policies, practices, and stakeholder experiences to identify strengths and opportunities for change.
Landscape and Policy Analysis: Reviewing research, policies, programs, and funding environments to inform strategy and investment.
Data Collection and Analysis: Conducting surveys, interviews, focus groups, listening sessions, and document reviews, alongside qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Reporting and Tools for Action: Translating findings into accessible reports, dashboards, toolkits, recommendations, and facilitated discussions that support learning and decision-making.
The projects below show this expertise in action: documenting organizational impact, informing equitable development in DC, advancing racial equity within nonprofits, and expanding access to community economic development loans for Black and Brown businesses and organizations.
Relevant Case Studies
Judy Lubin
Dr. Judy is an applied sociologist, racial equity changemaker, yoga and mindfulness practitioner, author, auntie, bestie and beach lover. Judy’s elemental nature is water, and with her she brings calming, reflective energy to hold space for deep listening, inner work and transformative dialogue.
The curator of the Embodied Justice program, she hosts the accompanying podcast and co-facilitates events and dialogues focused on the collective healing and sustainability of Black changemakers.
At CURE, Dr. Judy has built transformative racial equity frameworks and change management processes that have impacted thousands of lives. She began her career focused on health disparities, recognizing that stress from societal racism can become embodied and manifested through “weathering” that prematurely ages the body and shortens the lifespan of racially marginalized communities.
She is unapologetically committed to centering Black people and the communities that have inspired her life’s work. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she grew up in South Florida surrounded by music, her grandmother’s herbal garden, and the struggle to make it in a country that saw her family as outsiders.
In 2022, after experiencing multiple health emergencies coupled with burnout from the intensity of the “racial reckoning” that increased demand for CURE’s racial equity services, Judy began a process of listening to the wisdom of her body, healing old trauma wounds, and reclaiming rest and her love of mind-body healing. During this time she explored somatics, indigenous and and ancestral healing practices and earned certifications in multiple healing modalities including yoga and energy medicine.
Emerging from a place of rest and listening to what her soul wanted to share, she now weaves mindfulness, body-awareness and spiritual activism to support changemakers and organizations to regenerate their leadership and give to the world from a place of ease and wholeness.
Long committed to promoting women’s health and wellness, she is the author of The Heart of Living Well: Six Principles for a Life of Health, Beauty and Balance.
Find Judy on instagram or linkedin at @drjudylubin, where she (occasionally) shares posts celebrating Black joy, healing and well-being.
Shawn J. Moore
Residing at the intersection of leadership and mindfulness, Shawn creates sacred spaces for stillness and self-inquiry to help social impact leaders align their strengths, intention, and impact. Through his integrative approach, he holds transformative containers for self-renewal, personal discovery, and capacity-building that ease clients on their journey towards peace, clarity, and freedom.
Shawn is committed to empower changemakers to become embodied leaders – unified in mind, body, and heart – with the tools to mindfully pause, reconnect to their inner knowing, make strengths-driven decisions, and lead the change they believe the world needs.
Reckoning with his own contemplation of burnout, purpose, and alignment, Shawn transitioned out of his role as Associate Dean of Student Life & Leadership at Morehouse College in the fall of 2021 to focus more on mindfulness and stillness-based training programs and workshops.
While leadership resonates with him deeply, it is his personal and spiritual practices that allows him to continue to show up for himself and others. He is a yoga teacher (E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®), sound and reiki practitioner, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra facilitator, and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, all focused through a Buddhist lens and 17 years of personal practice. He has contributed workshops, practices, and educational opportunities for celebrities like Questlove and Dyllón Burnside, and various yoga studios and colleges, Yoga International, Omstars, Melanin Moves Project, the Human Rights Campaign, Spotify and Lululemon. He currently serves as the Facilitation and Community Manager for BEAM (Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective).
Shawn hosts a podcast called The Mindful Rebel® Podcast that creates a platform to continually explore this unique intersection of leadership and mindfulness. Find him on instagram @shawnj_moore
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