Welcome to your Change Lab dashboard — your central hub for civic tools, local impact, and connection. Whether you’re dipping your toe in or doubling down on change, this is the space to begin, grow, and organize your momentum.
Choose from four Engagement Levels that meet you where you are — from getting curious to organizing for impact. Explore eleven civic Pathways rooted in what matters: food, housing, justice, education, systems change, belonging, and more.
Use the Content Types to filter by what moves you: stories, events, toolkits, podcasts, books, partners, and more. The control panels on the sides help you navigate, explore, and plug in.
Collaborating with Teens Toolkit
Young people already want to work alongside adults to solve community issues—but often lack spaces with real power or connection reciprocal collaboration.
COGENERATE
Generational divisions are deepening just when collaboration is needed most. CoGenerate addresses this by building intergenerational bridges that spark innovation, expand belonging, and nurture mutual understanding—offering a replicable model of age-integrated social progress.
Workshop Foundations of Collaboration: The 3-Month Collaboration Lab
Real change requires real collaboration. This program helps participants move beyond vague partnerships toward structured, intentional, and inclusive collaboration practices. With a sliding scale model, it's also financially accessible for grassroots organizations and frontline leaders.
Summer Learning Toolkit
Summer learning loss disproportionately impacts students from low-income communities. This toolkit offers research-backed strategies and practical tools to help bridge that gap—ensuring that summer becomes a time for growth, not regression.
Gamestorming 2.0
The Change Lab exists to cultivate civic imagination and collective action. Gamestorming 2.0 offers the facilitation tools to help us get there—by helping people connect across difference, think in systems, and create shared pathways forward. Whether designing workshops, guiding coalitions, or prototyping new futures, this book is a core tool in our civic toolkit.
We’re a brand new organization focused on connection, civic participation, and shared understanding. This is our temporary website while we build out a full online platform to better serve our community. In the meantime, we’d love your support and input as we grow. You can support our work or schedule a conversation to learn more and get involved.