Grounded in community collaboration
Research
We uncover meaningful narratives from data. Through respectful and thoughtful engagement, we help you assess your community’s needs, bridge gaps, and promote local strengths.
Your community already has the answers
They live the local reality every day and know what works and what doesn’t. Our job is to uncover their insights and turn them into something you can use.
Community assessments
Get a holistic picture of your community through community-led surveys, interviews, financial analysis, focus groups, and spatial-asset mapping
Feasibility studies
Discover the viability of your initiatives through in-depth and customized data collection, listening sessions, case studies, and cost projections
Program evaluation
Evaluate the effectiveness of your programs and services by developing clear frameworks for goal setting and achievement
We partner with community leaders to:
1
Identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities in housing, health, food systems, and economic development using our community-driven research.
2
Design strategies for development, sovereignty, and equity using our culturally responsive analysis and collaboration with your community.
3
Translate data into action through reports, assessments, and planning tools that support long-term community well-being and self-determination.
A community-informed look at the housing ecosystem of Laguna Pueblo
We partnered with Laguna Housing Development & Management Enterprise to support culturally grounded, data-driven housing solutions for Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico.
Featured project
Max Van Oostenburg, associate research director, leads an activity at a community meal with Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico.
Helping your organization improve and grow
Our team uses a participatory, whole systems research approach to support long-term development, combining experience and culturally responsive data.
Our work with Sweet Grass has helped us raise the voice of our neighbors who live challenging lives in an area that has been purposefully and historically ignored for generations.
Julie Keel, Mountain T.O.P.
“
Jordin Simons and Halima Mohammed, Sweet Grass interns, facilitate an ice breaker activity with youth from Thunder Valley CDC's Youth Leadership Development Initiative during Sweet Grass' field school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Community members work together to build a fire pit.