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Growing Community-Building Organizations

We help community-building organizations grow holistically through integrated strategy, fundraising, design, and wellness


Strategy

Think more clearly

Design

Create valuable programs and services

Fundraising

Find aligned resources

Wellness

Thrive through the process


Our Mission

Is to sustainably grow community-building organizations.

We believe that a healthy entrepreneurship ecosystem can drive sustainable growth and well-being for people and the planet.

All of our work centers this principle - increasing collective well-being.

Our Vision

We envision thriving, innovative entrepreneur ecosystems in the Southwest and beyond, where people are supported in creating strong, lasting businesses that improve life in their communities and amplify the spirit of their place.


We Work With Those Who Make Entrepreneur Ecosystems Special

Community-Driven Businesses


Entrepreneur Support Organizations

Funders


What We Can Do Together

Community-building requires holistic growth - organizational strategy, sustainable funding, compelling design, and emotional capacity.

Our services integrate these elements to support your sustainable development

Strategy

Expand your vision and ground it into the current context for practical, developmental action.

Design

Create services, brands, and experiences that activate the potential of your community.

Fundraising

Access funding that fits your strategy & mission.

Wellness

Craft wellness experiences that nourish and connect your team.


Strategy

Cohere your outer context, essential purpose, and inner development through inspired action. Services: Strategic planning for new initiatives, programs, or ventures Scenario planning and ecosystem mapping for a shifting landscape Facilitation for collaborative visioning and coherence Launch and go-to-market strategy for early-stage efforts Partnership mapping and engagement strategies Connect With Us

Design

Bring your ideas into form through design that’s rooted in community context. Services: Design of technical assistance and support programs Co-creation & engagement with community Brand identity and website design Mission aligned business model design Event design for gatherings that activate connection and insight Connect With Us

Fundraising

Find funding that fits Strategy to identify and pursue aligned grants or investors Development of case materials and proposals Coaching on funder engagement and storytelling Support with budgeting and financial framing for projects Guidance on capital strategies that match your structure and stage Connect With Us

Wellness

Nourish your team and community with holistic wellness experiences Strategy and wellness sessions that integrate body, mind, and work Custom-designed retreats or restorative team experiences Access to a network of practitioners offering practices like breathwork, movement, or reflection Ongoing support for personal grounding and resourcing Connect With Us

See the Bigger Picture with Living Systems Thinking

Connect with and amplify the unique people, projects, and the places you're rooted in.

Our approach helps you uncover what’s working, what’s missing, and where your unique role can create the most impact.

This helps you build more effective partnerships, programs, services, and uncover new resources to activate your mission.

Get Insights To Advance Your Innovation Practice

We weave ancient wisdom, innovation practice, and living systems thinking to help you generate new insights and advance your work.


Recent Articles

What If Innovation Meant Becoming More Alive?

Social Innovation: A New Path for Entrepreneurs, Changemakers, and Weavers in a Time of Evolution.

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Turning Conflict into New Potential with the Law of Three

How to leverage your obstacles to turn compromise into inspired co-creation

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Patterns for accelerating systemic evolution

Shifting the way we co-create, fund, and govern initiatives to benefit living, shared prosperity.

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Our work

Silvi

Goal: Go from Reforestation Pilot → Community-Driven Reforestation Platform

Results:

  • Funded 5,000+ farmers in Rural Kenya to plant trees
  • 100 → 600 users
  • $50,000 in grants → $100,000+/year in earned revenue in beta stage
  • Launched website with 70 leads from form
  • Expanded from single reforestation pilot to platform model with 20+ pilot projects

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Reforestation for everyone. Silvi is accelerating global reforestation through building a platform for community-driven reforestation

Next Rung Technology

Goal: Transform a sustainable technology engineering brand and online presence, creating team cohesion, and strategic clarity.

Results:

  • 0-8,000 impressions on Google search over 2 years.
  • Grew the team from 6-14 members over 2 years.


Next Rung Technology

Next Rung Technology

Engineering consultants helping sustainable technology companies effectively scale their business and engineering processes

Just Learn

Goal: Improve ecological learning platform go-to-market with website design + messaging

Results:

  • $15,000+ in new revenue from partnerships with schools after website launch.
  • Empowered thousands of kids to understand living systems through PlanetBox

Think Regeneration

Goal: Find high-leverage partnerships for a regenerative agriculture hub and capacity builder for farmers.

Results:

  • 10+ powerful partnerships discovered
  • Nourished the minds, hearts, and operations of dozens of pioneering regenerative farmers through their programs

Think Regeneration

Think Regeneration

Accelerating change in the food supply through our regenerative agriculture programs, expertise, and partnerships.

B-CIITY

Goal: Birth a data sovereignty co-op within a coalition of Black-led non-profits working on trauma and youth.

Results (ongoing project):

  • 50+ community members engaged in the design process
  • A prototype for story-centered civic tech platform.
  • $150,000 in grants raised from our work together.
  • Forming partnerships with established community institutions in Baltimore

B-CIITY

B-CIITY

We exist to incubate, catalyze and maximize the efforts and impact of Black-led, youth serving organizations in order to build thriving communities.

Orchard Community Learning Center

Goal: Create a refreshed brand identity and online presence for a staple of the South Phoenix community.

Results:

  • Created a new website that got 1000's of new visitors.
  • Drove an increase in donations
  • Supported creation of an e-commerce platform

The Orchard

Our Ecosystem - Phoenix Sustainable Living - The Orchard

Join The Orchard for locally grown produce and wellness education. Empower your Phoenix community towards sustainable living.

Innov8Social

Goal: Support the design and go-to-market for an "Impactathon" experience that activates communities to solve difficult problems.

Results:

  • Clarity on pricing, experience design, and go-to-market.
  • 17 Impactathons completed

Innov8Social

IMPACTATHON® by Innov8social | social impact hacakthon experiences

How might we empower the next generation of problemsolvers? IMPACTATHON® – social impact hackathon experiences by Innov8social.


Teacher Solution Summit

Goal: Create an immersive and collaborative experience for communities to gather around solutions that support teachers in their schools.

Results (in-progress):

  • Established partnership with Center for the Future of Arizona
  • Scoping partnerships with education funders and schools
  • Designed a facilitation protocol





Our Collaborative Ecosystem

We're an adaptive and distributed team of subject matter experts with diverse experience across many facets of building and growing community-driven organizations.


Adam French Aurora

Founding Visionary

Worked with dozens of social entrepreneurs as an advisor, strategist, designer, and most recently, regenerative practitioner.

His toolkit converges influences from design thinking, business model innovation, regenerative design, yoga, qi-gong, and is always expanding!

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Sandra Coveny

Fundraising Flow Artist

A former non-profit founder on a mission to improve how non-profits raise money for abundance and flow, Sandra has worked with organizations around the U.S. to raise millions of dollars on a local, state, and federal level.

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Pooja Mehta

Investment Intelligence Agent

Building the solidarity economy as a lawyer, entrepreneur, investor, and trusted advisor. After selling a family business, she leverages decades of experience understanding how businesses work to support their success.

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Sam Chavez

Marketing Maven

Sam Chavez is a queer, Latine, New Mexican American activist who’s passionate about a livable planet, belonging, and equitable societies. She founded The Roots of Change Agency to harness my storytelling and 12+ years of marketing experience to cultivate connections that lead to lasting social change. She does this through strategic coaching, workshops, consulting, podcasting, and writing. 

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Vance Mckewen

Business Design Wizard

Vance guides social entrepreneurs through ambiguity as a facilitator, coach, and mentor by combining the polished steel of business with the colorful paper of design thinking.

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Stephen P Ben

Content and Connection Curator

Stephen is a motivated social enterprise founder that uses his skills in project management and content creation to support our process of forging new connections and maintaining a powerhouse content calendar

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Hannah French Aurora

Connection Specialist

Hannah is an artist, administrative assistant, and creative connector. She weaves relationships, operations, and artistic details to create a memorable experience.

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