Youth Outside
To root out racial injustice, we studied the litany of structural barriers that impede the rise of racially inclusive and representative leaders in the outdoors.
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STRENGTHEN YOUR STRATEGY
We live our values
Intelligence, integrity, compassion, and the pursuit of social justice guide the who, what, why, and how of our work.
Our job is to help changemakers learn from the work they do and share the power of their learning with the communities they serve.
Featured projects
Stanley Center for Peace and Security
Our learning cycles with the Center’s climate change, nuclear weapons, and mass violence and atrocity teams tested their assumptions and informed ongoing adjustments to their policy advocacy strategies.
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The benefits—and challenges—of working across program teams surfaced tensions between the urgent need to work across sectors and long-held grantmaking practices structured by content area.
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In-person outcome mapping sessions and deep dives with Fellowship participants revealed how investment in individual health care leaders rippled out to changes in organizational culture and even state policy.
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We ask good questions
Whether helping you define your strategy, getting feedback from community members, or making sense of your data together, our questions aim to deepen our collective understanding of what you’re trying to accomplish and how you’ll get there.
We listen deeply
Every person is an expert on their own life, and we value this expertise. Listening is our greatest tool in transforming these individual lived experiences into an interwoven source of insight and power.
We clear the noise
In our increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world, there have never been more ways to create change or more data to gather. When we listen, reflect back, and synthesize with you, we’ll surface what’s important to both learn and, ultimately, do.
Our clients
We’ve partnered with over 100 foundations, nonprofits, public agencies, coalitions, and networks working in and at the intersections of education, youth engagement, community development, health and wellness, and human rights. Some of our recent clients: