What We Do Subjects
The Center engages in collaborative action-research projects with institutional and community leaders involved in initiatives undertaken to advance full participation and public problem solving. We work with researchers, institutional and community leaders, educators, students, policy makers, and foundations seeking to have collective impact. The Center also develops collaborations across multiple institutions to develop concepts, share knowledge, expand organizational capacities, and support broader policy change.
The Center helps individuals and institutions figure out what full participation looks like in their settings and how they can catalyze change needed to advance toward that vision. We bring a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to this work, through strategic visioning and inquiry, multi-method research, institutional capacity building, systems-level assessment, and education.
Research
Multi-method, collaborative research projects with innovative institutions
Strategic Visioning and Mapping
Broadening impact and building capacity to participate in institutional and systems change
Capacity Building
Systems thinking, strategic visioning and transformative leadership development
Education and Knowledge Sharing
Innovative frameworks, tools, and strategies that build the capacity of current and future leaders
Network Development
A key strategy for advancing our theory of change
Systems Assessment
Indicators of changes that signal shifts in the structure, system, culture or constitution of a setting
