Our Mission
The Center for Common Ground is a skill based virtual and physical nonprofit aimed at producing practical strategies to first equip self and then to drive institutional culture in all sectors. Our focus is to help support equipping self-development to help drive and expand organizations institutions. We want to re-imagine how we re-vitalized community through examining cultural agility.
Identify best practices
Develop future practices
Convene individuals, groups and empower communities
Be a resource to build culture and community
What are we hoping to solve?
Reteach how to listen, learn, observe, and then act on what you learned. We believe the eco-system has been rewarded on the first three steps of a logic model, resources, activities, and outputs when outcomes and impact are what community needs.
Our Approach
The Center is a licensed provider of the Equity Innovation Center and aims to use the research based cultural competency tools to expand and advance the work all sectors to develop innovative solutions for the disruption of social inequities. We have been planning the launch since 2018 alongside the Center of Excellence called the Equity Innovation Center. We don’t claim to have all the answers. Instead, we bring together thought leaders and change agents to build teams, most especially young leaders.
Business Model
Fees and Services through the online Courses
Merchandise
Philanthropic Investment
Partner Investment
Communications
Website and Podcast Set-up
Backbone support/staffing
$50,000
$5,000
$50,000
$20,500
$3,500
$6,000
$75,000
Data we will collect
Our grounding assessment, completed by the Equity Innovation Center has been developed by Dr. Mitchell Hammer and Dr. Milton Bennett, the Intercultural Development (IDI) is a 50 item, theory based on-line instrument that measures intercultural sensitivity as a conceptualized through the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. This DMIS is a framework for explaining the reactions of cultural differences. This model, we believe helps drive your personal eco-system that can lead you to a larger system thinking strategy for team and cultural development. This assessment is confidential, and CCG only uses the aggregate data to create the vulnerable conversations needed to understand where a team is and where it can go.
Theory of Change
Discovery (0-20 percent)
Funds to create next generation programs
Scaling and access (50-75 percent)
Funds to support scaling for first 3-5 years
Enhance/refine existing programs (0-20 percent)
Funds to support adaptations, innovations designed to improve
Infrastructure/Capacity Building (10-40 percent)
Funds to improve organizational efficiency (i.e., data analysis project, shared measurement systems, cultural competency tools, etc)
Project Based Teams for young Evanston Change Makers
The 847 Series - Podcast
Driving into the history through engaging young voices for the future
What will it produce? What will it leave?
Collaborators
Change Agents
Culture change
Investors