What’s different about what we do? Our technical expertise combined with creative energy and a drive to make the world a healthier place for all is what sets us apart. We offer a breadth and depth of experience in what it takes to create successful social impact programs, coalitions, and campaigns that generate positive impact.
Craft new narratives
Storytelling helps us break down complex topics in ways that resonate and help us learn. From stories about one person’s health challenges to the impacts of large-scale public health initiatives, strategically creating narratives brings different perspectives and experiences to light and creates urgency and energy for change. We collaborate with our partners from start to finish, from developing strategy and identifying audiences to execution and creative production.
Communications
Video storytelling
Campaigns
Websites
Branding and positioning
Issue framing
Communications capacity building and training
Facilitate collective action
Sustainable social change for healthier communities requires finding ways for people to come together. This process of blending different approaches, energies, and resources for optimal outcomes involves creating supportive spaces for ideation and collaboration. We do the essential work of creating the right environment and making collective action possible through facilitating decision making and consensus building.
Community engagement
Network or coalition development and facilitation
Cross-sector partnership strategy
Collaborative action planning
Systems change
Communications capacity building and training
Strengthen strategy and decision-making
Health issues are multi-dimensional, nuanced, and dynamic. They affect people’s lives. We help our partners gather and parse complex information so they can make informed and thoughtful decisions for creating change that has positive impact. From research design and analysis to engaging communities in authentic and meaningful ways, we help our partners turn data and insights into strategic action.
Community research
Market research
Collaborative meaning making
Landscape analysis
Theory of Change
Program design
Build capacity and training
To create change, social impact organizations must inspire, educate, and connect with others. We offer coaching and training in storytelling and community engagement to help organizations, leaders, and coalitions strengthen their skills and capacity to build narratives, engage with different people, and lift community voices.
Storytelling for Change
Community-led storytelling
Audience and communication planning
Message development
Customized training and coaching programs
Cultivating the next generation of food justice leaders
Learn how we co-designed a new, expanded program model by engaging all interest holders in collaborative exploration.
Photo credit: Foodwise
Showcasing impact to build knowledge and inspire change
Learn how we used video storytelling to showcase success stories of community coalitions and multi-sector partnerships that are working to address social determinants of health.
Supporting families and youth in navigating mental health services
Learn how we used community research to inform ongoing development of community-facing activities and content across Health Department programs.
Humanizing the housing crisis to find solutions
Learn how we conducted community-led discovery to uncover what was at the heart of a public health issue and created a campaign to help community members engage.
Select partners
We’re honored to partner with innovative and impactful organizations across sectors
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ACEs Aware California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) California Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) Campaign for Trauma Informed Practice and Policy (CTIPP) Center for Care Innovations Center for Critical Public Health Center for Evaluation Innovation Center for Nature and Health at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CodePath Dibble Institute Didi Hirsch EmpowerU First 5 Orange County Foodwise FrameWorks Institute Gateway Mountain Center |
Healing Together Institute for Family (Children’s Home Society of North Carolina) Kidango Land Together (formerly Insight Garden Program) Mathematica New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP) New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids (NJ InCK) New York Depart of Health and Mental Hygiene Nurture Connection at Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development Partnership for America’s Children (Journey to Success Campaign) Safe and Sound The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) The Community Builders The HOPE National Resource Center at Tufts Medical Center The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Western Youth Services |
