Cultivating change through collaborative action.

What we do

Climate change is a challenge that requires ‘systems thinking’ if it is to be meaningfully addressed. We help our partners identify their strategic opportunities that can be leveraged to shape and direct collective action.
Enabling the public to meaningfully participate and influence decision-making processes is difficult but creates opportunities for transformative outcomes. We help our partners design and implement participatory methods to engage and empower communities within their work.
Evidenced-based decision-making is a guiding principle for many organizations but what data is being captured and analyzed can open or close potential trajectories. We help our partners use their long-term goals as the foundation for designing outcomes-oriented monitoring and evaluation frameworks that center learning within their impact analysis approaches.
Solving challenges requires being able to innovate towards a specific objective. We help our partners build capacity for innovation by grounding innovation frameworks within their contexts and developing their practical skills to harness those frameworks over the long-term.
Cities are where solutions to the 21st century’s challenges will be found. We help our partners understand that complex processes within city systems and design solutions to societal challenges at the city-scale.

Help organizations develop language to name the root challenges they are trying to address
Identify assumptions and beliefs about the challenges that constrains action
Define success and imagine potential solutions

Support organizations to design governance frameworks and develop capabilities for collective problem-solving with diverse stakeholders
Facilitate sense-making across multiple perspectives to determine shared values and goals
Organize and analyze different sources of knowledge to determine innovative and creating solutions to complex obstacles

Enabling organizations to understand their challenges and make informed decisions by gathering and analyzing data
Utilize a diverse range of methods to collect qualitative data and share emergent insights with stakeholders
Share findings with stakeholders to produce ‘sense-making’ about their organizations and empower them to make strategic decisions

Guiding organizations to see their work through alternative lenses and use new approaches to shape the process of transformation
Design and test new ideas through a process of prototyping and piloting to produce learning during the innovation process
Improve and refine ideas while taking on acceptable risk to scale practical solutions to complex challenges