Who we have worked with, and what we built together.
Thirty years of program design, evaluation, research, grant development, and training. The organizations below are named on this site's portfolio and publications; a fuller client list, with photos and documents, is being assembled from the archive.
Where the work happened
Health systems and medical education
University Hospitals (community health worker pilot), Northeast Ohio Medical University (HPAC, AmeriCorps, Health Scholars, the community experience course), and the Family Medicine Education Consortium.
PortfolioUniversities and schools
Cleveland State University (BA/MD pathway), Hiram College, Youngstown State University, Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools including Lincoln West and the School of Science and Medicine, Tri-C High Tech Academy, and rural districts across Ohio.
HPAC sitesCommunity organizations
Strengthening Our Students, the Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program, TYWIST, the Florence Matthews Women's Center, Teens Networking Together in St. Paul, and Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland participants.
PartnersFoundations and funders
Work supported by the Cleveland Foundation, Saint Luke's Foundation, the Health Resources and Services Administration, AmeriCorps, and the U.S. Department of Education.
Grants courseState and public health
The Ohio public health ecosystem case studies and dashboard, the Citizenship Health learning management system for the State of Ohio, and the NEO Community Health Worker Program.
PortfolioArts and national networks
The Arts for Learning national evaluation and the self-organized learning environment studies with StartSOLE.
PublicationsSix kinds of work
Program design
HPAC, the Junior CHW program, Healthy Home with SOS, Leadership Foundations, the CHW Academy.
Evaluation
Process and outcome evaluation, social return on investment, national multi-site evaluation.
Evaluation servicesResearch
Infant mortality and bias, rural assets, HPAC alumni, student voices, catalytic capital.
ResearchGrant development
More than thirty million dollars in external funding secured across city government, universities, a medical school, a health system, and community organizations.
The grants courseAnalytics
Predictive models, risk tiers, and dashboards for violence prevention and public health.
Predictive analyticsTeaching and training
Urban studies, public health, biostatistics, grant writing, nonprofit advocacy, bias training for physicians.
Our work