SOLUTION MAKING THROUGH INCLUSION

Unlocking the collective genius of community to transform people, places & systems

 
 
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Tech-forward innovation and inclusive collaboration for faster, scaled impact

 

 

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We work in partnership on systemic economic, social, and environmental challenges.

shift7 scouts and scales promising solutions and solution-makers, and applies sustainable models for investing resources, talent, tech and capital, especially across under-resourced spaces.

 

News

She led massive change. Know her and share.

With Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls & The Female Quotient, we’re lifting 20 extraordinary achievements by women.

#20for2020

 
 

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shift7
has a constellation of capabilities that we cluster into three buckets:

 

+ Studio

CO-CREATE : CO-BUILD

iterate : activate : empower

  • Sprint : Pilot : Catalyze
  • Deep dives : Prototyping
  • User driven design with cross-functional teams
  • Experiential system upgrades
  • Open innovation : APIs : Data science

+ Ecosystems

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catalytic connections : resource investments

  • Scout innovators solving pressing challenges
  • Interconnect entrepreneurs
  • Build Communities of Practice
  • Surface mentors, funding, partners and more
  • Network the networks

+ Storytelling

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see : learn : engage : believe : act

  • Lift solution-makers
  • Highlight hidden heroes (historic/current)
  • Reduce debilitating stereotypes
  • Engage and amplify under-represented voices
  • Illuminate tech-forward solutions
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Flagship Projects


 
 
 
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Latest...


MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship

SpaceX Crew Dragon docking to ISS — May 2020

Overcoming biases about tech — March 2020

 

Guest editorial with Astronaut Cady Coleman

Los Angeles, CA — February 10-12, 2020

UN Headquarters, NYC — September 2019

Pine Ridge, SD — October 4-6, 2019

Honolulu, Hawai’i — April 20, 2019

Oxford, UK — April 11, 2019

 
 
 
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“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”

— HOPI ELDER

 
 
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