Focus Areas
We focus our work where complex systems, urgent challenges, and community priorities come together, surfacing practical pathways forward for shared value and lasting resilience.
Corporate Resilience
Climate change is putting unique stress on corporations as they look to become more efficient and nimble in the face of rapidly-changing conditions. Organizations can be slow to respond and tied to the past, struggling to overcome bureaucratic complexity and systemic inertia.
We lead a multi-step process to identify and train change makers, equip internal sponsors to support innovators and help organizations identify the most compelling projects to support.
Wildfire Resilience
Wildfires are burning hotter and moving faster — our communities are more threatened than ever, as insurance companies exit vulnerable areas and people worry about their safety
We run catalytic convenings, bringing a community together for open productive dialogue, then leverage social technology to crowdsource fire preparation, with the goal of creating transparency and action needed to prepare a community and its surroundings
Farm Resilience
Across the U.S., farmers are navigating a convergence of pressures—changing weather patterns, declining soil health, rising input costs, water constraints, grid instability, and the need to sustain both livelihoods and local ecosystems. Meeting this moment requires solutions that do more than solve a single problem; they must strengthen the entire farm system.
We connect leaders and mobilize resources to accelerate agrivoltaics, the creative interweaving of solar with agriculture, with the goal of preserving farmland, generating renewable energy, reducing water usage and helping farmers stay in business
Storm Resilience
Storms are getting stronger and more destructive. All along the East and Gulf Coasts and throughout Tornado Alley, there is an unprecedented need for communities to work together in fresh ways.
We connect diverse leaders and drive catalytic dialogue to prepare communities for catastrophic storms, bringing together civic and business leaders, emergency professionals, environmental, church and other community groups —people who need to talk and work together before the next hurricane or tornado hits
Community Resilience
Large infrastructure projects, from data centers to clean energy buildouts, are arriving in communities faster than most local governance structures can adapt. Residents often absorb the costs and risks of this growth while having little say in how it unfolds or how its benefits are shared.
We create space and structure convenings that bring residents, local leaders, infrastructure operators, and investors to the same table, identifying a path forward built on genuine shared value: durable, contracted community benefits, strategic advantage for operators, and financial opportunity for investors.
Through these convenings, we create tools and resources that scale the shared value model, community by community, building on and reinforcing each community's own agency to co-create its economy, business models, and priorities, so that local character shapes the outcome.