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Causes: Social Science
Mission: To see a world where all individuals and institutions work together to create a common good. Thriving cities group provides thought leadership and practical tools to equip a new generation of city leaders and institutions to reimagine and re-engage city life.
Programs: Tech platform is a web-based technology that employs the city voice ensemble method and is designed to enable community-oriented foundations to map social data, highlight community needs and assets, amend to resident feedback, and eventually evaluate community investment projects using our groundbreaking form of social analytics.
data & technology: thriving cities group harnesses the power of social data through technology to better inform and assess what interventions are most equitable and effective.
consulting: thriving cities group developed the human ecology framework, a new civic paradigm for understanding and assessing urban thriving for the 21st century. Our civic paradigm is comprised of six fundamental community endowments.
community engagement: thriving cities group is committed to learning from residents and research practitioners through high context, face-to-face engagement that allows ground-level insight to guide wiser community investment decisions. Community engagement that seeks to build the will and ability of city residents to be decision-makers in their communitys renewal and thriving. Its four-step process aims to create investable opportunities, especially in divested areas, and to do so in a way that empowers local residents to lead and sustain change in their communities.