Social Impact Lab

Good ideas for a community often stall for lack of structure: no entity, no budget, no process to carry the work. The Social Impact Lab gives charitable projects that structure. We also run projects of our own here, so what we advise comes from doing the work.

Current projects

Pop Commons: an experimental practice space to rethink community and economic development, exploring models of collaboration, cooperation and leadership development.

Toolbox: a tool we built for underrepresented founders, with free tools and referrals to service providers gathered in one place.

Lansing Makers Network: strategy and planning support for a volunteer-run community makerspace in Lansing.

AOTA (All of the Above Hip Hop Academy): capacity building for a hip hop arts academy.

Prior projects

Remake Project: redistributed excess industry materials to Cincinnati makers and turned them into useful things for the community.

Precious Plastic Cincy: a community plastic recycling project in Cincinnati.

Have an idea for your community but no structure to carry it? Book a consultation.