The Society’s work is organized around interdependent capabilities: generating community knowledge, building digital infrastructure for social impact, and implementing programs and initiatives that improve resilience, innovation, and collective well-being.
We conduct applied, participatory research to generate practice-based evidence that supports more effective planning, stronger service design, participatory evaluation, and asset-based community development and regeneration.
We develop and operate digital tools, data systems, and collaborative platforms that enable organizations, policymakers, and communities to access, share, and use information related to community development and social impact.
We design and implement initiatives that strengthen resilience and innovation through interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and community-led approaches to real-world social, health, and environmental issues.
The Society may develop initiatives across a wide range of interconnected domains, always with a focus on co-creation, inclusion, community resilience, and long-term public benefit.
Supporting mental, physical, and collective well-being through community-connected models, experiential therapies and learning, and initiatives that link people to local supports, activities, and relationships.
Advancing regenerative and climate-responsive community solutions that improve preparedness, local stewardship, adaptation, and the sustainability of community systems and spaces.
Supporting collaborative and evidence-informed responses to housing insecurity, homelessness, and the social conditions that affect stability, dignity, and belonging.
Encouraging equitable access, connection, and healthy movement through community-centered mobility initiatives, active transportation, and place-based design that improves everyday participation.
Creating programs and experiences that bring people together through recreation, skill-building, community-based learning, and shared participation in public life.
Building local capacity for regeneration through interdisciplinary processes that connect infrastructure, social systems, public spaces, cultural strengths, and community imagination.
The Society develops and delivers programs designed to support co-creation, inclusion, community resilience, and long-term public benefit, adapting to evolving community needs and priorities.
Dementia Co-Creation Academy (DCCA) started in 2024 as a citizen-driven space for planning and implementation of Asset Based Community Development and empowering projects that enhance social citizenship of people living with dementia and their family/friend care partners through intergenerational engagement in meaningful, fun, recreational, co-creative, therapeutic, artistic, and uplifting social activities.
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TrueNetwork platform is a collaborative digital environment designed to enable organizations, communities, and partners to access, share, and co-create knowledge, data, and initiatives for social impact. It supports participatory planning, program co-design, and evidence-informed decision-making by bringing together stakeholders across sectors into a unified, data-driven ecosystem.
Through integrated tools and shared infrastructure, the platform empowers communities to design and implement initiatives that strengthen resilience, enhance well-being, and foster innovation across social, health, and environmental domains.
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Whether you are a nonprofit, municipality, community partner, policymaker, or researcher, the Society is designed to support collaborative, evidence-informed action.
