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Prototyped a new social venture that decreased dependency on grants and donations and increased sustainability.
Prototyped a new social venture that decreased dependency on grants and donations and increased sustainability.
Following a rapid prototyping phase CNTRD helped plan, design and test YWCA’s first social enterprise.
Through prototyping and lean design of a social enterprise, YWCA developed a new system for delivering on its social impact mission.
We can disclose that CNTRD is grateful to work with amazing leadership that pioneered the development of YWCA’s first ever social enterprise intervening in systemic racism. After one week of rapid prototyping and unanimous Board approval, YWCA re-contracted CNTRD to move forward with beta designing and testing the social enterprise prototype.
We cannot disclose more than this YWCA, CNTRD, and the CNTRD innovation ecosystem (experts from MIT, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Creative Reaction Lab, and Theory of Enchantment) developed an intervention that focuses on collaboration and strategic decision making to help organizations increase cultural competency in systemic racism.