Advanced learning & strategy for social innovation

Openfields provides adaptive learning, analysis, and entrepreneurial capacity to help you imagine and accelerate a more creative and just future.

Offerings

Collaborating, learning, and innovating across systems

Strategy

Foresight

Scenarios

Planning

Advising

Data

Data Strategy

Database Design

Analytics

Visualization

Research

Impact Models

Landscape Analysis

Program Evaluation

Community Voice

Systems Intelligence

Research & Policy Tracking

Trends Mapping

Learning Cohorts

Design

Facilitation

Capacity Building

Leadership

Executive Advising

Executive Residency

Work

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FUSE Corps | Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defenders Office

Racial equity data for criminal justice reform

As a FUSE Corps Innovation Partner, Openfields worked with LA APD on possibilities/plans to integrate racial data into resentencing programs

Missouri Foundation for Health

Evaluating Firearm Suicide Prevention

A developmental evaluation of a statewide, multidimensional firearm suicide prevention investment strategy

Missouri Foundation for Health

Firearm Suicide Prevention Learning Cohort

A statewide learning cohort to develop human-centered, data-driven firearm suicide prevention programs

The Alliance for Early Success

Right for Kids Community of Practice

A strategic community of practice to advance policies that support children and families

“Our work with Openfields has helped us see the limits in our own thinking and begin to generate ideas and alternatives to challenge and transform the status quo."

Dr. Jackie Counts • Director of the Center for Public Partnerships & Research at the University of Kansas

Journal

Ideas and insights from across our fields of work and learning

Grady Powell

Imagination: the root of justice

A reflection on cultivating imagination for systems change

October 20, 2023

Openfields

Openfields Equity Journey

Our commitment and learning towards equity

Jared Simmons

Embracing Diversity in a Contested Culture

An interview with Jared Simmons CEO of Outlast Consulting and Openfields DEI Innovation Advisor

Openfields

Planning for children in a warming world

Findings from a review of climate action plans of the predicted ten most populous cities in 2100

Tim Green PhD

Stay-at-Home Fathers: Liberalizing Social Norms or Economic Desperation?

The growth in men choosing to stay home to take care of children reflects two positive changes in society, but this is not the only story

Grady Powell

4 Insights from Wendell Berry for Social Impact Leaders

Can industrialists act from a motive of love?

Interview by Grady Powell

Evolving Philanthropy with Kristy Klein Davis

An interview on the future of philanthropy with the Chief Strategy Officer of Missouri Foundation for Health

Clients

Organizations we work for and with to imagine and accelerate change

Philanthropy

Dogwood Health Trust

Missouri Foundation for Health

Arthur M. Blank Foundation

Kauffman Foundation

Hollingsworth Funds

Mary Black Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

NPOs + Intermediaries

United WE

Reach Out & Read

Roca, Inc.

Capita

Space for Humanity

United Way

Leadership Foundations

Universities + Think Tanks

Stanford GSB

University of Kansas

Furman University

Shi Institute for Sustainability

The Biophilic Institute

GTUx

Institute for Child Success

Corporate Impact

Michelin

Pathwright

Sustain SC

Your Creative People

SIM Consulting

Slate Advisors

Social Impact Networks + Cohorts

Network for Southern Economic Mobility

Mission 85

OnTrack

Alliance for Early Success

Missouri Collaborative for Firearm Research