Toolkit for Neighbor-led Systems Change
Goal
Transforming Cincinnati Children’s “Neighborhoods as Systems” concept into a replicable, community-accessible framework and toolkit for neighborhood-led systems change.
Strategy & Alignment • Process Facilitation • Framework Development • Theory of Change
Role
Designed emergent process to surface insights and co-design a theory of change to articulate how neighborhood-level interventions create systems-level impact
Conducted discovery interviews with active community project teams to surface learning, patterns, promising practices and co-create a process journey map
Gathered broad feedback to ensure usability, replicability, community accessibility and organizational scalability.
Translated process and tools to interactive website to support accessibility and reach
Outcomes
Developed comprehensive "People, Place, and Progress" toolkit and website documenting a four-phase process with 26 tools for neighborhood-led systems change. Created replicable framework positioning communities to identify leverage points, redesign inequitable systems, and build cross-sector coordination that scales upward to influence broader policy and practice changes. Model is being piloted with Cincinnati’s Neighborhood Changemakers Network, a community coalition for collaborative change.
Explore the web toolkit.
Download the pdf toolkit.
“ You navigated this complexity and team engagement in a way that would go unappreciated — it was so seamless… The team is buzzing seeing that they really have something important to contribute to the field.”
— Client partner