Table 1.

Quotations describing supports identified by respondents

Support	N (out of nine)	Quote (institution code, respondent code)
Funding	Nine
CTSA funding used to incentivize CE	“Partly, some of the reward is just that's what we use our CTSI funding and some of the institutional matching funds is to actually support people who do just that. So you know, we will say, you're funded five percent time not to do a study on childhood obesity but to take what you know from your research and your knowledge of the literature and work with these community groups to try to help them in this process. So partly, it's being able to fund that in a way that's very hard to fund if it's just the, you know, it's very hard to get a grant funded for that. You do need more of these kinds of core resources from a CTSI award and some of the matching institutional funds.” (Respondent 7.1)
Importance of non‐ CTSA funding sources	“And I have to also say that for example we have a community space…about 1800 square feet, half a mile removed from the medical campus, and the funding to maintain the space is not through the CTSA, it's funded through our endowment.” (Respondent 1.2)
Existing relationships	Eight
Prior relationships through core	“It became more of a discussion about what could we realistically achieve because we had a lot of stuff already on the ground, so what was the next step we ought to take, which is really about a more formal process of needs assessment with over 100 community partners. . . . We brought 100 groups we were already working with, we weren't starting from ground zero.” (Respondent 2.1)
Prior relationships through staff	“<Community Co‐Director>, who is our CEO through the Urban League of <City>. So she's on board to help us with connections and her mission is to improve quality of life for African Americans in <County>.” (Respondent 7.2)
Leadership and partnership approach	Nine
PI “gets” CE	“First of all, he gets what we're doing in the community engagement side of things so there's not a huge, lets to say, translational gap within our CTSA, in terms of this being completely alien territory for him. . . . He just philosophically is supportive of this and it is one of our three major cross cutting CTSA initiatives for this current five year grant period, so it's a very high profile initiative now in terms of what we are doing around the community engagement piece so that he is very invested in its success because it is actually one of the key things we've told the NIH that is going to be a featured initiative for this five year cycle.” (Respondent 7.1)
Broader institutional support	“Well we had, about the time our CTSA was first funded we had just about that time established at the chancellor's level. . .a university community partnerships office. And at the time, that was set up by the provost. . . . He had a very strong vision around <Site> being a more civically engaged institution. . .and then once our CTSA was funded those kind of worked hand in glove on related activities on community engaged research and other forms of civic engagement at <Site>.” (Respondent 7.1)
Partnership approach	“So, we have a rich history of being corporate citizens and having long standing relationships with lots of groups, but it's tended to be one off sorts of efforts, often times people don't know what somebody else is doing with the community so people are stumbling over each other. . . . So I think a lot of what we are trying to do is organize all that, a little more strategic thinking about what are we really trying to do here and can we really provide the most long lasting benefit to our community. And then from our standpoint at the CTSA how do we use research as a tool within this effort to actualize what we are doing. So lots of good things happening, just trying to get it organized.” (Respondent 3.1)