Keeping a donor happy is not enough… period. What do you want donors to actually do to achieve your mission? This no-holds-barred session deconstructs donor relations into each element and then provides...
You know that moment when everyone agrees something is wrong…but everyone keeps swirling because no one agrees on what the problem actually is? This session helps participants slow down before...
What does resilience look like in communities facing constant change—and how do leaders help cultivate it? This panel brings together visionaries from business, culture, science, and nonprofit leadership to explore...
Many well-intended initiatives fall short because decisions are made for communities rather than with them. This session focuses on building practical skills for listening to residents, partners, and lived experience...
Impact Labs are structured like facilitated office hours for professionals working on a real project, initiative, or challenge. In this first lab, participants receive targeted support applying the skills from...
When you’re deep in the work, it’s easy to default to familiar solutions…even when they’re not working. This session helps participants break out of “we’ve always done it this way”...
Remember in Finding Nemo when they’re told by those sassy fish, “When you get to the trench, swim through it…not over it.” That trench is implementation. Most people don’t struggle...
This final Impact Lab is designed as advanced office hours focused on refinement, decision-making, and next steps. Participants bring their active projects, draft concepts, experiments, or implementation plans and receive...
Since no single organization can solve big social problems alone, Collaboratory is using its community leadership role to bring together local organizations and people from different sectors (like businesses, nonprofits, and government) to work on common goals. This collaboration aims to improve Southwest Florida and make it a better place to live, work, learn, and play.
The impact dashboard shows key regional goals that everyone is working toward, with the aim of solving social issues by 2040. It provides a point-in-time snapshot of progress by tracking important indicators that show how the community is changing over time. While these changes take time and there is often a delay between when the data is collected and becomes available, the dashboard helps us understand where we need to focus our efforts to achieve our shared goals.
In 2022, in concert with hundreds of individuals and organizations, we collectively identified the issues of housing and health as the next most-pressing areas of need. Based on that data, we’ve modeled FutureMakers Coalition, our nine-year initiative, to establish two new regional coalitions: Home and Health & Wellness.
If you would like to dive deeper into each of the coalitions, visit each coalition website.
