Active programs
Each program turns governed knowledge infrastructure into practice: the agreements, tools, stories, and implementation habits that help communities and institutions keep public work alive.
SDOH infrastructure
Community Health Commons
Community Health Commons builds shared infrastructure for SDOH-focused work: community health partnerships, neighborhood-scale data practice, stewardship agreements, and implementation capacity that can survive beyond a single grant.
Civic innovation
Government Service Corps
Government Service Corps helps public agencies, universities, and community partners organize practical service capacity around real civic problems. The program is built for applied learning, public accountability, and durable institutional memory.
Narrative infrastructure
Civic Story Lab
Civic Story Lab documents civic work in ways communities can use: stories, archives, public learning products, and communications practices that make shared work legible without reducing it to a campaign.
Cross-cutting domains
Focus areas the programs draw from
Knowledge Stewardship
Governance, preservation, and long-term access for community-anchored knowledge, so applied learning does not disappear when a project ends.
Civic Research Partnerships
Accountable co-design among residents, civic institutions, and research teams, with partnerships structured for usefulness rather than extraction.
Community Technology
Digital tools, access strategies, and platforms that meet people where they are and are maintained as shared civic infrastructure.
Community Data Governance
Practical rules for ownership, transparency, consent, and use of data in neighborhood and community health decisions.
Community Design
Planning, services, housing, and public-space practices where residents hold meaningful voice and institutions remain accountable for follow-through.