Who We Work With

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At the Innovation Center, we work with an array of organizations, from large foundations to grassroots community organizers.

• Funders

• Communitiy Groups and Organizations
   
• National and Regional Non-Profits
   
• Youth Leaders
   
• Researchers/Evaluators
   
• Trainers
   
• Corporations

Funders

We partner with foundations to design, launch, manage, and evaluate major initiatives. We also offer focused training programs and consulting services to address specific needs at any point throughout a project. Our expertise in youth-adult partnership enables us to involve young people in a meaningful way in any initiative.

Partner with the Innovation Center to:

• explore, seek, test, and refine best practices in community and youth development programming around the world;
• study and evaluate the impact of innovations;
• coordinate training programs, learning exchanges, design team meetings, and other events in youth and community development;
• create and conduct feasibility studies for new projects and initiatives;
• manage relationships with grantees, including site visits and proposal reviews.
• work more effectively with young people and communities;

Community Groups and Organizations

Whether you want to start a youth advisory board, build youth-adult partnerships, create a new initiative or try a more holistic approach to evaluation, the Innovation Center can work with you to achieve your goals. The Innovation Center offers tool kits, training, and technical assistance that is creative, culturally sensitive, and proven successful to help local organizations achieve their goals.

Partner with the Innovation Center to:

• contribute to and learn from best practices in youth development programming around the world;
• participate in training programs, learning exchanges, and broad scale initiatives resulting in measurable change;
• improve outcomes in youth leadership, youth-adult partnership, organizational development, planning, and evaluation;   

National and Regional Non Profits

The Innovation Center partners with national and regional nonprofits to support young people and strengthen communities. We can help you design, implement and evaluate large scale projects and focused initiatives. We can provide customized training to your members or local partners and develop curriculum to strengthen your work.  We have experience working on both local and national levels. We will also work with you to measure outcomes and to share your results with the field.

Youth Leaders

Do you have ideas to make your community better? Are you getting the support you need to make an impact? If you are looking for resources and advice for your community change projects, look no further. The Innovation Center works with young people and adults to develop new projects, build new relationships and guide youth and adults to work effectively as equal partners.

Researchers/Evaluators

Want to study new ways to involve hard-to-reach youth? Improve local government? Bring youth voices to the table? The Innovation Center partners with researchers to study new and inventive approaches to youth development, community change and social justice. We assess best practices, emerging trends and new opportunities to strengthen young people and communities. We bring networks of connections to community organizations around the country and the world.

Trainers

Are you looking for creative and effective training materials on topics like youth-adult partnership, youth leadership, civic engagement, program evaluation, organizational development and strategic planning? We have hands on activities, curricula and tool kits that have been tested and refined to be effective. We also offer train the trainer workshops and an on-line trainers discussion forum.

Corporations

The Innovation Center works with major corporations to integrate youth perspective into philanthropic programs and to help youth-oriented programs achieve their goals. We help design, launch, manage, and evaluate major initiatives. We also offer focused training programs and consulting services to address specific needs at any point throughout a project. Our expertise in youth-adult partnership enables us to involve young people in a meaningful way in any initiative.

For a list of funders, community organizations, and other partners with whom we are delighted to work, please click here.