Community-based research (CBR) combines service-learning with participatory or applied research and can be a powerful teaching tool in social science methods classes. Incorporating applied research projects into classroom teaching, however, places special demands on instructors. This paper presents one approach to CBR as a pedagogical technique and offers practical suggestions to those who consider adopting it. As research, pedagogy-based CBR demands all the creativity and skill of normal academic research, though the process may be faster-paced. The special skills considered here involve brokering resources among a complex network of partners that includes both students and community organizations.