The César E. Chávez Institute (CCI) is housed off-campus on the top floor of an office building located on the corner of 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco’s Mission District -- in the heart of one of the City’s most multi-ethnic, working class neighborhoods, with many important community service organizations for neighbors.

CCI is a fully functional research center with offices for over 20 faculty, staff, fellows and student workers and interns. Unlike most offices, our Center’s interiors are painted with rich, warm colors and comfortably furnished so as to make staff, study participants and visitors alike feel welcomed and at home. In addition to offices, the Center has a comfortable meeting room, which doubles as a focus group facility. We are also able to comfortably house qualitative and quantitative data collection activities, such as individual facd-to-face interviews and computer-assisted self-administered interviews.

Although national in scope, CCI strives to serve as a vital contact between academia, research, and some of San Francisco’s most disenfranchised communities: We made our home here precisely to reflect that truly progressive and effective social research must be inseperable from the populations it aims to serve.