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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Food is Medicine SC and Institute for the Advancement of Community Health at Furman University

Visualizing Food Insecurity Risk for South Carolina

Openfields developed the South Carolina Food Insecurity Risk Map to help local partners target root causes of food insecurity.

LIIF

Mapping the Child Care Crisis in Multnomah County

Addressing Multnomah County's childcare crisis by providing comprehensive data analysis and interactive GIS tools

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

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Transforming Veteran Mental Health: Insights from the Mission 85 West Creek Summit

The West Creek Summit united stakeholders to tackle veteran mental health crises

“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

Cordell Carter II, Esq.

Philanthropy and a Culture of Belonging: An interview with Cordell Carter

Exploring the role institutional philanthropy can play in advancing a culture of belonging.

December 10, 2024

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 & partners

Organizations we work for and with to imagine and accelerate change

Philanthropy

Dogwood Health Trust

Missouri Foundation for Health

Arthur M. Blank Foundation

Chicago Beyond

Hollingsworth Funds

Mary Black Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

NPOs + Intermediaries

Spartanburg Academic Movement

Reach Out & Read

Roca, Inc.

Capita

United WE

Low Income Investment Fund

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

Networks + Cohorts

Network for Southern Economic Mobility

Mission 85

OnTrack

Alliance for Early Success

Missouri Collaborative for Firearm Research