This workshop discusses the development of Community-based research (CBR) and key elements for success at a research university setting. CBR defined as a type of research conducted with and for, not on, members of a community.In that sense, CBR is a partnership of students, faculty, and community in research with the purpose of solving a community problem or leading social change. CBR is collaborative and change-oriented, and it has a blended historical flavor consisting action research, participatory research, popular education, participatory action research, and empowerment research. CBR emphasizes collaboration between the university and the community in which both parties are learners and researchers at the same time. This kind of collaborative knowledge creation validates multiple sources of knowledge including the scholarly one as well as the epistemology of practice, and how do they interact and disseminate to be used for social change and to achieve social justice.