Site map

Everything on this site, in one place.

Forty-two pages, grouped by what they are for. If you know what you want to do rather than what it is called, start with the task list below.

The centre

About the centre: who we are, how we work, and the commitments we publish.

  • index.html

    Home

    The centre at a glance: the five practices, recent research, and where to start.

  • about.html

    About and purposes

    Our objective and the seven not-for-profit purposes that govern the centre's research, training, partnership, and equity work.

  • team.html

    Our experts

    The disciplines we assemble around an engagement: researchers, evaluators, accessibility specialists, facilitators, equity practitioners, and…

  • work-with-us.html

    Work with us

    Join the CometX associate network, or apply for a supervised graduate placement. Paid, contracted, credited work across research, evaluation,…

  • contact.html

    Contact and proposal requests

    Send an enquiry about training, consulting, EDIA, accessibility audits, research partnership, or open resources. Scoping calls are free.

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    En français

    CometX est un centre de recherche et de formation sans but lucratif en Ontario. Prestation bilingue, documents sur demande en français.

What we do

What we do: five practices, the Academy, and two services aimed at small organizations.

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    All services

    Five practices you can hire separately or in sequence: training and capacity building, consulting and advisory, EDIA, accessibility audits,…

  • method.html

    The CometX Method

    Scope, Evidence, Build, Transfer — the four steps every engagement runs through, published under CC BY 4.0 so anyone can use them.

  • training.html

    Training and capacity building

    Workshops, institutes, cohort programs, and train-the-trainer delivery in research methods, evaluation, knowledge mobilization, facilitation,…

  • academy.html

    CometX Academy

    Free learning materials, courses in development with associations and SMEs, and a route to request training.

  • consulting.html

    Consulting and advisory

    Evaluation design, rapid evidence reviews, strategy and program design, knowledge mobilization plans, and community engagement, on fixed-fee…

  • edia.html

    EDIA and women's leadership

    Equity assessments, inclusive hiring and promotion systems, EDIA strategy, bias-interrupting training, and sponsorship programs advancing…

  • accessibility.html

    Accessibility and audits

    WCAG 2.2 and AODA conformance audits, document remediation, accessible procurement, multi-year accessibility plans, and staff training.

  • research.html

    Research and knowledge mobilization

    Applied research on how evidence travels, plus open frameworks, toolkits, and briefs published free under Creative Commons.

  • ethics-review.html

    Research ethics review

    Independent, proportionate ethics review for community organizations with no access to a research ethics board. Two weeks, written feedback,…

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    Evaluation office hours

    Forty-five free minutes with an evaluator, monthly, for small non-profits and community organizations. No pitch, no follow-up sales call.

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    1,000 Hours digital support

    A commitment of 1,000 hours of free web development, social presence and creative work in 2027, built accessible and handed over. Open to any organization; assessed on need.

Research and publications

Resources: everything we publish, free to read and reuse under Creative Commons BY 4.0.

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    Report library

    Every CometX research report and open resource, free to read online and download as an accessible PDF.

  • plain-language-summaries.html

    Plain-language summaries

    Every CometX report and resource summarised in two short paragraphs, so you can tell in twenty seconds whether the full thing is worth your time.

  • research-agenda.html

    Research agenda

    What CometX is working on next, and what we know we do not know. Published so that people who know more can say so before we publish, not after.

  • research.html#resources

    Open resources

    The six resource types — framework, toolkit, checklist, brief series, template and guide.

  • request-a-copy.html

    Request a copy

    Ask for any CometX report or resource as a PDF, large print, easy read, audio or tagged document. Free, and no justification needed.

  • register.html

    Register for updates

    Reports stay free to read. Register to get the CometX research newsletter and new publications by email.

Built Here

Profiles of businesses of every size and how they make a difference where they are.

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    The programme

    Built here. Building here. How businesses of every size make a difference where they are, in their own words. Nominate a business.

  • built-here.html#series

    Sector series

    Six businesses from one sector, then a short synthesis of what they had in common.

  • built-here/kanata-business-drivers.html

    Kanata Business Drivers

    The first profile: a technology and training firm that designs itself to be leavable.

  • built-here.html#nominate

    Nominate a business

    Your own or one you admire. No fee, and you approve the piece before publication.

Policies and accountability

The commitments we can be held to, published rather than kept internal.

  • privacy.html

    Privacy

    What CometX collects, why, who else touches it, and how to have it deleted. No analytics, no advertising tracking, no cookies set by us.

  • accessibility-statement.html

    Accessibility statement

    How cometx.ca meets WCAG 2.2 AA, what we know still falls short, and how to report a barrier. Alternative formats free on request.

  • about.html#accountability

    Accountability

    Annual impact reporting, the public research agenda, and how corrections are handled.

  • work-with-us.html#standards

    Standards of practice

    The six commitments every associate signs up to.

Every publication

All 20, listed in full.

Free to read online. Any of them can be sent to you in PDF, large print, easy read, audio or a tagged document at no cost.

Forms

Every form on the site, and where it goes.

All five reach contact@cometx.ca. What each one collects and how long it is kept is set out in the privacy policy.

  • Copies

    Request a copy

    Any publication, in any format, free and with no justification required.

  • Updates

    Register

    The research newsletter, about once a month. Optional — nothing is gated behind it.

  • Nominations

    Built Here nomination

    Put a business forward. No fee, and nobody is written about without agreeing first.

  • Associates

    Work with us

    Associate work, peer review, or a supervised student placement.

  • Clinics

    Evaluation office hours

    Forty-five free minutes with an evaluator, monthly.

  • Proposals

    Request a proposal

    Tell us what you are trying to change and we will say whether we are the right fit.

Or just ask

The Ask CometX button at the corner of every page will find a report, explain a service, take you to the right form, or put you through to a person.

Utility pages

The three pages you reach by accident.

Listed for completeness. None of them are linked from the navigation, because you only ever arrive at them from somewhere else.

  • site-map.html

    This page

    Linked from the footer of every page, and offered when a page cannot be found.

  • thanks.html

    Thank you

    Where every form lands after it is submitted successfully.

  • 404.html

    Page not found

    Shown when a URL does not exist. It offers this map as the way back.

For search engines

A machine-readable version lives at sitemap.xml, and crawler rules are in robots.txt. Both are kept in step with this page.

En français

Les pages françaises.

All 24 French pages are listed below. Use the EN / FR switch at the top of any page to move between languages. The research reports themselves are published in English; any of them can be supplied in French on request, free of charge.