We help this global collaboration of NGO’s and funders co-design a more powerful strategy for rapidly reducing methane emissions from oil and gas production, waste, and agriculture. The first convening in 2021 resulted in the development of the Global Methane Hub funder collaboration, which is now both funding and providing backbone support to the group’s ongoing collaborative work.

Funders: Global Methane Hub, Pisces Foundation

We’re supporting the development of this consortium of 6 organizations doing leading work around mindset change strategies for racial and health equity. Each organization is receiving funding to engage in action learning and collaboration in the Consortium.

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

We provide coaching and training to this network of 25+ initiatives across Europe working to convert 1 million hectares of farmland and waterways to regenerative practices by 2030.

Partners: Ashoka Netherlands, Commonland

We supported the successful reboot of this multi-year cradle-to-career initiative in the rural Rogue Valley area of Oregon and the recent co-design of a 5-year child success strategy for the Region.

Partners: Rogue Workforce Partnership

Some Funders: Gordon Elwood Foundation, Ford Family Foundation

This multi-stakeholder network is moving toxic exposures of electronics workers toward zero through a first-ever collaboration including electronics brands, labor rights NGO’s, and workplace safety experts. Participants range from leading brands like Apple, Dell, HP, Sony, and Intel to campaigner NGOs like the International Campaign for Responsible Technology and CEREAL.

Partner: Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

In partnership with a global funder, we developed and launched an action learning network to find, innovate, and develop better forms of governance for people and the planet. The network includes practitioners, scholars, and professionals from across sectors with a shared interest in how governance can work better in a world with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

In partnership with Arare, we supported the reconstitution of a multi-stakeholder collaboration to protect ecological diversity and health in the Orinoquía region of Colombia.

Partner: The Nature Conservancy

In partnership with Arare, we’re supporting the development of a multi-sector, multi-country collaboration to address the social and ecological harm of gold mining in the Amazon Basin.

Funder: Amazon Aid and others

We supported the startup and development of this network of 75 health systems that are working together to more effectively leverage their procurement, investment, and hiring functions to build more racially equitable and resilient local economies.

We supported the co-design of the shared governance framework for this global partnership that is supporting the adoption of national economic inclusion programs that increase the earnings and assets of extremely poor and vulnerable households.

Partners: Co-Impact, GiZ, The World Bank Group

We supported the launch of a new regional ecosystem and platform to drive economic development at the intersection of sustainable agriculture, climate solutions, and inclusive economies across a 5,000-square-mile portion of central California.

Partners: BEAM Circular

We supported the development of this network of African universities that aims to advance research, learning, and capacity building. The goal is to empower Africans to adapt to climate change and foster greener, more sustainable, and more inclusive economies. 

Funder: Mastercard Foundation

In partnership with the Collective Leadership Institute,  we supported two dozen organizations from around the world to co-design a new impact incubator and accelerator network that’s by and for communities in the Global South.

Partner: Villgro USA

We supported the design and development of this global multi-stakeholder collaboration that has built a suite of reliable and accurate country-level human rights measurement tools. It is the first human rights measurement initiative to involve the major global human rights advocacy organizations along with over 1,000 human rights advocates and researchers around the world.

Partners: Motu, University of Georgia, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

We designed and supported the startup of this transatlantic network advancing a portfolio of interventions to align US and European bank lending policies and practices with climate needs. Initiatives include a peer-based learning lab for bank leaders, a progressive charter for banks to align their lending with climate needs, and a shared framework for climate impact reporting.

Partners: Green America, Positive Money

Funders: Hewlett Foundation, Partners for a New Economy

We supported the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders network to co-design a shared strategy to advance U.S. federal policy that supports healthier, more sustainable, and more racially equitable food systems and foster more effective collaboration across food and ag policy work.

Funder: Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

We designed and facilitated an 18-month open and collaborative process involving a diverse range of people from across the US Health System, including patients and patient advocates to redesign RWJF’s flagship leadership program to support collective and systemic approaches to this complex challenge. The process has not only resulted in a completely transformed program design but also new strategic directions and priorities for the foundation as a whole. Racism in the U.S. Health System: The Transformation We Need, shares the key learnings from this project’s research and discovery.

We supported the startup and development of this network that is working to rebuild the child welfare system in Hawai’i so that it’s grounded in Native Hawaiian culture and practices. Public and private partners on the state and local level are working to improve policies and practices, lift up youth and family voice to drive change, maintain strong connections among siblings, and ground their collaborative work in Hawaiian values and culture.

Partner: EPIC ‘Ohana

Members of CoCreative co-founded and served on the initial Stewardship Group for this international network embedding social justice and diverse ways of knowing, being, and doing into the field of system change.

Funders: McConnell Foundation, Garfield Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Lankelly Chase

We provided training and advisory support for this multi-faceted inclusive economic development initiative for South and West Auckland, New Zealand, and providing capacity-building support for the initiative teams.

Partner: The Auckland Council

We supported this collaboration of 5 collective impact initiatives working to ensure lifetime success for all students in Stanislaus County, CA in developing a more powerful systems change approach for their work.

We supported Canadian funders and Ashoka Fellows to co-design a strategy for supporting a healthy, equitable, and resilient recovery for Canada. This was an initiative of the Funder Academy for Collaboration, which was co-designed in 2019 during one of CoCreative’s training courses.

Partners: Funder Academy for Collaboration, Ashoka Canada

Funders: Philanthropic Foundations of Canada

This network of 60 U.S. market leaders, from seed breeders to consumer packaged goods companies, advanced a robust and resilient food system that restores soil health, water quality, and biodiversity while building food security, farm livelihoods, and better nutrition for families. This network is now a part of the Soil Climate Alliance.

Partner: Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

We supported this network of 2,000 food system leaders from around the U.S. to form a more powerful, connected, and aligned “change system” together, and provided capacity building around systemic collaboration to members of the network.

Partners: Wallace Center/Winrock International

We designed and facilitated the co-design of a governance system for MOSAIC, a collaboration of environmental funders and non-profits to build stronger movement infrastructure for the environmental movement based in equity and justice.

We helped the NAEM network co-design a new strategic vision and new services to help its 5,000 leaders powerfully advance safety, health, and environmental sustainability beyond the boundaries of their individual organizations.

Partner: NAEM, The Association for EHS Management

We co-designed a shared grantee learning and collaboration platform for this international funder collaborative that’s focused on aligning our economic systems with ecological needs.

We designed and facilitated a multi-stakeholder process to develop the standards and business model for STAR Communities, the world’s first comprehensive sustainability standard for municipalities. The standards process involved building consensus on highly complex standards among 270 stakeholders representing cities, towns, NGO’s, foundations, academic programs, and sustainability consultancies. The business model was designed in two days based preceded by deep dive stakeholder interviews by STAR’s board, staff, and funders. STAR Communities is now LEED for Cities and Communities

We co-designed the organization’s Center for Sustainability Solutions, which develops diverse industry stakeholder networks to move supply chains and markets toward social equity and environmental sustainability.

We supported this network of diverse stakeholders to address cancer and high exposures to environmental chemicals in Southwestern Pennsylvania to co-design its strategy.

Currently, poverty, racism, and ableism create barriers to health and early childhood education. This network works across sectors to advance a set of strategic interventions to remove those barriers and building new models of care, so that race, class, and ability no longer predict families’ access to quality early childhood supports and services. We supported the start-up and initial network strategy co-design process.

Partners: Health Share of Oregon

We supported the development and ongoing collaboration of a network of 24 large public and private sector purchasers to develop and advance breakthrough climate solutions in refrigerants, renewable energy, and data centers, and to develop a better framework and shared solution set for measuring supply chain climate emissions.

Funder: Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

This U.S. network is working to reach 50 million employee owners in the U.S. by the year 2050, helping to reverse the growing wealth gap and strengthen economies of communities across the country. Learn more at www.fiftybyfifty.org.

Partner: The Democracy Collaborative

We designed and co-hosted a convening for leading organizations building capacity in the field of systems change to identify key themes in the field, address key challenges, and determine ways to collaborate more effectively to build the field and practice of systems change. Read: Convening the Capacity Builders: Reflections on the Field of Systems Change

Funders: McConnell Foundation, Garfield Foundation, Academy for Systems Change

We supported this network of economic innovation labs across the province to strengthen and expand their individual and collective economic development efforts.

Partners: ONSIDE

We support Ashoka in various ways to expand the capabilities of staff and fellows to lead and support systemic collaboration, including interactive monthly case clinics, an intensive retreat for Ashoka Fellows, and a custom online course. Several regions of Ashoka now employ CoCreative's approaches and methods extensively in their own work.

We supported members of the Blue Sky Funders Forum and NGOs in the areas of environmental education and outdoor access to co-design and advance strategic priorities for the field around racial equity, organizational survival, connecting schools and the outdoors, and supporting BIPOC-led organizations.

With Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a global science philanthropy advancing biomedical research and science education for the benefit of humanity, we provided support to their learning cohorts of colleges and universities to deepen diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

We helped launch this network of spiritually-inspired changemakers to shift the paradigm about the relationship between spiritual/religious belief systems and changemaking for the common good.

Partners: Ashoka Global, Presencing Institute

Together with the United Way and non-profits, companies, universities, and agencies across the Greater Lehigh Valley, we support the co-design of the first hybrid Impact Hub and Collective Impact incubator and community of practice in the U.S. The initiative supports the design and operations of multiple collective impact initiatives working on health, education, economic development, and environmental challenges across the Valley.

Partner: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley

In collaboration with a diverse network of local leaders, we supported the successful reboot this 10-year collective impact initiative to revitalize one of the most rural counties in California. Four connected collaborations focus on local healthy food systems, third-grade reading levels, health career pathways, and Opportunity Youth. Learn more.

Funder: The California Endowment

This multi-stakeholder network is scaling the global adoption of regenerative agronomic programs across diverse geographies and products that capture and sequester carbon and reduce carbon emissions. The collaboration launched a new global standard, verification, and recognition system for climate-positive farming; a global climate agriculture project accelerator; and a new fungal-microbial approach to soil health with strong climate, water quality, and economic benefits for farmers. This network is now a part of the Soil Climate Alliance.

Partners: Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

We helped Skoll Foundation pilot a highly collaborative virtual “action lab” format involving 800 participants addressing the dual challenges of COVID-19 and climate change.

Funders: Skoll Foundation