Who We Are
A Strategy Hub for the Fight against Division and Bigotry
The Foundation for Inclusion (FFI) is taking on just about the hardest problem there is: changing society to build cohesion and inclusion — and resist the forces that divide us.
Whether you’re conservative or liberal, an investor or a philanthropist, in business or in advocacy, progress on just about any issue you care about is at risk when your country is as divided as it’s becoming today.
How do you change contempt, bigotry, and division at mass scales?
You do it collectively and strategically.
We’re making that possible.
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We're all in this together — Help us now!
History shows entire societies can change when small groups of people act collectively and strategically toward a shared goal. Changing deep-seated divisions, contempt, and bigotry in society as a whole might seem like an impossible fight. But the tools and techniques needed to win that fight already exist — we just need to pull them together and start using them! We've already started pulling them together. If we can raise just $60,000 by the end of June 2017, we can start making these advanced techniques available to fight the good fight as early as this summer!
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You’ve been generous in your support to charity and political action but are afraid it might all be for nothing if current trends continue. Become an Inclusion Partner today and help us build sustainability into social progress.
What We Do
We discover and incubate powerful innovations, high-level strategies, and shrewd coalitions that build civil, peaceful, and inclusive communities and societies—at home, abroad, and online.
We collaborate with nonprofits, social enterprises, philanthropists, impact investors, communities, and multi-sector coalitions — as long as you’re serious about promoting social cohesion or defending disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, we’ll help you discover new and better ways to achieve your objectives.
We’ll use, retool, or develop advanced techniques — dynamic modeling and strategy design, rapid prototyping, a/b testing, behavioral nudging, collective-impact organizing, etc. — to help you build or redesign products, services, media content, and strategies in ways that measurably achieve social good.
Keeping a society together takes collective effort, and our three programs are designed to make collective strategies successful — by focusing, respectively, on the whole, the parts, and the gaps:
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Collective Strategy: The Whole
Making implicit collective strategies explicit: How does your work fit in to the bigger picture?
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Impact Incubator: The Parts
Helping nonprofits, social enterprises, and businesses discover their best contributions to social cohesion
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Inclusion Incubator: The Gaps
Filling gaps in collective strategies with in-house initiatives and a social-enterprise startup incubator
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Our Programs
FFI’s staff and principal advisers have the experience and expertise to retool private sector and social science techniques — a/b testing, dynamic modeling, rapid prototyping, etc. — to help nonprofits, social enterprises, and mass-market products and media live up to their potential as unifying forces in society. We use these tools with coalitions (to see the whole picture), with organizations (to strengthen each part of the picture), and in our own initiatives (to fill in the gaps). Tap or hover for more.
Collective Strategy
Collaborating with philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, organizations, coalitions, investors, and business leaders working toward related goals. We make implicit collective strategies explicit.
"The Whole"
FFI's Collective Strategy Program helps paint the big picture so you can see more clearly how your work fits in to the collective effort
Impact Incubator
Collaborating with nonprofits, social enterprises, and businesses. We help you discover what impact you're really having on cohesion and inclusion and experiment with tweaks to strengthen it.
"The Parts"
FFI's Impact Incubator is like your personal trainer: you're still doing the heavy lifting, but our techniques make you even stronger.
Inclusion Incubator
Identifying and filling gaps in collective efforts. We launch in-house initiatives (and spin them off later as independent organizations or movements) and incubate social-enterprise startups.
"The Gaps"
FFI's Inclusion Incubator uses "lean" methods to test, tweak, and validate ideas, initiatives, product designs, and business models
Our First Initiatives
The Foundation for Inclusion is advised by a score of experts, and our Inclusion Incubator is already working on nearly a dozen technology, coalition, and other partnerships. These will enable us to build capabilities and launch initiatives such as the following.
Impact Accounting
How can organizations achieve the most social good with the capabilities they have?
Impact Accounting
A platform and service linking internal capabilities to societal dynamics to test and monitor strategies and discover highest-leverage paths of influence
Empathy Trolls
What is the most effective way to counter Internet trolling and outrage media?
Empathy Trolls
Large-scale, automated experiments testing a range of strategies for neutralizing hateful and divisive speech online
Bridge Identities
What is the most effective way to overcome personal biases based on identity differences?
Bridge Identities
Networks of multiracial families (and supporting organizations) in divided communities, testing strategies for reducing bias through personal connections
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We’d love to welcome you as a volunteer or collaborator! If you are interested in working with us or have any other thoughts you’d like to share, please fill out the form below. We will never sell your email address.