1. Defining Your Community – thinking "outside of the box" when defining what constitutes a community

2. A Step Back: From Disease to Risk Factors – changing the primary care medical model focus from disease to the root causes of disease, i.e., risk factors

3. Community Research Design Flexibility – being flexible in design given different research needs (Bryant "Cross of Gold" speech; one research design does not fit all

4. Inclusive Research Planning – including community partners early in the process of research development and planning

5. Linking Community Engagement and Political Support – understanding how garnering community and political support can lead to structural changes

6. Reaching Out to Provide Care - providing medical care outside of the walls of the academic medical center

7. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel – relying on existing resources, information, and tools that have been effective in community engagement

8. Innovative Recruitment – using non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities

9. Community Etiquette – displaying culturally-appropriate manners when approaching and working with communities

10. Community Worker Pay and Compensation – developing and using tools to promote and negotiate community worker compensation for services with a research study

11. Information Dissemination – using effective and innovative methods and strategies for communicating study findings, results, and implications

12. Communication and Education Types – identifying various modes of communication an education styles to implement with communities and different segments within communities

13. Practices Are Teams of People – understanding how to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers

14. Collective Identification of a Research Agenda – understanding that a research agenda should be developed as a collaborative effort with community members

15. Leveraging Methods of Engagement – understanding and implementing high-technological and low-technological methods of engagement

16. A Different Look at Data Acquisition and Sharing – taking a broader perspective on data acquisition, measurement, and sharing within and without the academic institution

17. No Helicopters Allowed – actively and consistently working with communities long-term; learning how to refrain from coming in and out of communities for singular gain

18. Starting Small Is OK – learning how to take small steps for large gain in building strong relationships with communities that lead to better research collaborations

19. Sharing the Funds – understanding how, what, and when to communicate regarding to the availability, distribution, and sharing of research funds with communities

20. Building Trust – learning how to build internal and external trust with communities at various stages of the research process (initial conversations, IRB consent, defining research, defining community, etc.)