Initiative

Orchard: AI-enabled Systems Intelligence for Social Impact

See the whole system.
Act with wisdom.

Imagine having a regular landscape analysis snapshot delivered to your inbox which allows your organization to accelerate learning. Orchard is a process and platform for disciplined learning from individuals, teams, and networks.

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To enable trust and collaboration through information and innovation equity, Openfields creates mechanisms to consistently share information and listen across systems. Without the ability to see the system, systems change efforts struggle to:

Link learning across sectors

Imagine futures beyond the experience and expertise of a team

Consistently listen to local communties

Diversify the voices that inform a team's values and worldview

Keep up to date on new research, insights, and creative cases

Distribute leadership and ownership

Evaluate impact

Designed and managed by social science and social impact experts, the landscape analysis is multiplied, magnified, and accelerated by AI-allowing you to see what is going on across a system in real time with Orchard.

Orchard provides systems intelligence: high-resolution, real-time insights across a system and a disciplined, research-driven process for making sense of and sharing those insights

Systems Intelligence Strategy

Align Systems-level insights and engagement with your organiztion's mission and metrics

Strategic Evidence Feeds

AI-driven tracking of stories, cases, research, interviews, news, events, funding, and policies across a system

Curated Insights + Dashboard

Weekly briefs and a sortable, searchable database for defined user groups

Thought Leadership + Network Engagement

Custom newsletters, whitepapers, and workshops to educate and engage your community

Products

What’s (generally) included in an Orchard subscription?

Strategy Kickoff

Insight Briefs

Insight Dashboard

Sensemaking Sessions

Synthesis Briefs

Custom Products

Cases

How have clients used Orchard?

JOHNS HOPKINS, BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Food insecurity media tracker

Inventory of stories of food insecurity and community solutions across South Carolina

GEORGIA HEALTH INITIATIVE

Health advocacy partner network pilot

Scan of local and national policy landscapes to empower GA advocates

REACH OUT & READ

Building the field of early relational health

Tracking emerging research and innovative practice in pediatric care

THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP

Trust-based philanthropy & power sharing

Following how perspectives and practices in the social sector evolve