Filling a Community Need

Means taking the critical first step to see your effort succeed: define the impact it needs to have.
Once you’ve done that, build the right team of experts and influencers and watch the change start to happen.

If the solution is strategy, policy, or practice . . .

If the solution is to build something important . . .

 

Strategy

creates the guideposts

and

Practice

creates the change

Define

the impacts desired and the challenges to beat

identify community needs and assets, determine measures that matter, confirm outcomes and requirements for success

Develop

goals and strategies for realizing the impact

determine vision and goals, identify influencers and champions, set timelines and targets, build a team

Engage

the community that will be part of the solution

reach those most impacted, gain perspectives, define touchstones, communicate progress

GUIDE

lead the transition from idea to reality

evaluate possibilities, develop roadmap, create the story, build a platform for change

Are you ready?

find a better solution

We have seen too many good ideas fail. One way we overcome this is connecting with the community from the very beginning. It reduces the exclusion that often breeds resistance to a change and aligns the effort with community interests.