LiderazCo
In 2018, with the MIT Community Innovators Lab, we brought together local leaders and small business owners in Santa Ana to figure out how to make the neighborhood better for everyone. Trust was the most important thing we built. By the end of 2019, 110 community leaders had finished the program and begun organizing their […]
The Esperanza Program
In 2013, we helped start Esperanza to see the potential in young men who had been pushed to the margins. In its early years, it was remarkably successful, demobilizing all four gangs in San Felipe. However, as we tried to scale, we encountered the reality that high-impact social work requires immense focus. In 2020, we […]
Learning with Oxford University
We were grateful to have researchers from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School spend time looking at how we build. They were interested in our “Economics of Mutuality” approach—making sure what’s good for our neighbors is also good for our business. The study looked at things that don’t always show up on a balance sheet, like […]