Insights & Evidence

A public library of how we work.

Frameworks we already use with partners. Field notes, impact reports, and case studies will be added when there is work to learn from — not before.

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Criteria

Five tests for a first initiative

Real need, mission fit, a capable partner, a way to know if it worked, and learning that can travel.

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Criteria

The initiative filter

Ten questions we look at with people close to the work before anything becomes a yes.

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Questions

Places people can live, remain, and build from

How do we strengthen housing, neighborhoods, and the civic fabric that makes communities durable?

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Questions

Communities prepared for environmental stress

How do communities prepare for heat, water, energy, and the long life of the built environment?

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Questions

Tools that expand what communities can do

How can research, models, and tools change outcomes — rather than exist for their own sake?

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Roadmap

Four stages of how the work can grow

Los Angeles first. Then the United States and Latin America. Presence follows finished work.

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Guidance

Who we work with

Community organizations, civic partners, universities, companies, and aligned capital — in the same room, with the same questions.

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Guidance

Independent, so we can collaborate widely

We are our own institution. That is how we stay useful with communities, companies, governments, and nonprofits.

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Record

The record of the work

Why an initiative was chosen, who we are working with, and whether anything changed. Open until the first work is real.

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If you are close to a need, look at how we choose — then write.

The library is here so a conversation can start with shared criteria. If a community or partner has already named a problem, we would like to hear it.

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