UNLOCKING COLLECTIVE GENIUS
Institutionalizing open, tech-forward, shareable practices to drive direct impact.
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We work in partnership, catalyzing then scaling, together.
Our portfolio spans a broad range of contexts including expanding the pipeline of innovators, empowering legacy orgs, activating youth engagement, mobilizing the city as an ecosystem, and networking the (often too siloed) networks — especially integrating across economic, social, and environmental domains.
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Our teamwork is organized across three practices:
+ Creating
iterate : activate : empower : bolster : make
- Sprint, prototype, iterate : begin as a way to begin
- Research / deep dive / audit the state of the art
- Design and pilot with cross-functional teams
- Leverage open innovation : APIs : data science
- Bolster organizational capacity
+ Connecting
catalyze : cross-pollinate : (re)source
- Scout innovators already solving challenges
- Build Communities of Practice
- Surface mentors, funders, partners, and more
- Network the networks
- Placemake (physically and digitally)
+ Storytelling
see : learn : engage : believe : act
- Lift solution-makers
- Highlight hidden heroes (historic/current)
- Reduce debilitating stereotypes
- Inspire creative confidence
- Illuminate tech-forward solutions
Flagship Sectors
Explore.
MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship
SpaceX Crew Dragon docking to ISS — May 2020
Entrepreneur.com “The Playbook“ Interview
With Astronaut Cady Coleman and Susan Alzner
2020 Makers Conference - Los Angeles, CA
UN General Assembly (UNGA), Sept 2015 - 2019
Pine Ridge, SD — October 4-6, 2019
Spotlight: Honolulu, Hawai’i Program
Skoll World Forum - Oxford, UK
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
— HOPI ELDER
