Community-centered design toolkit

We offer open-source tools, training events, and curated resources to advance participatory and community-centered practices.

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Community-Centered Design Toolkit

Whether you are an emergent or established practitioner, this Toolkit is for you. Our three Toolkit Tracks offer practical frameworks, exercises, and resources to evolve your community-centered practice.

1/ Changing perspectives

Understand problems in a new way

Tools in this track are designed to help you see and align multiple perspectives in order to reframe a problem you are currently working through and find mechanisms for ongoing learning.

2/ Reimagining futures

Create transformation by design

This track brings together tools for bringing a transformative and emergent lens to your engagement work. They also provide guidance on how to find new pathways from an existing problem.

3/ Institutionalizing change

Build space for transition

In this track, you will find tools that will help you uncover resources and strategies to mobilize them to address your problem. It also includes tools and strategies related to building alliances and collaborating effectively to bring ideas to life.

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Design a workshop for you and your team to build capabilities around a specific community-centered design theme or project challenge.

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