Our close friends and colleagues, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall oversee the Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme (MTP) in Community-based research.  This programme offers learning opportunities for university and community knowledge workers to take a 21-week course in teaching Community Based Research, and has been operating for five years.

Rajesh and Budd have discovered that community knowledge workers seldom can find funding to benefit from the MTP.  So they have created the Community Scholars Fund, a crowd funding initiative, to provide funding for community-based practitioners to pay for the Mentor Training Programme. Budd celebrates his 80th birthday in October 2023 and is aiming to raise $100,000 CDN for the Community Scholars Fund. Here is the donation location, and a flyer with further information is attached. We hope that PASCAL subscribers might consider making a donation.