Client: Indianapolis/Marion County Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention
Project: This project was created following a year-long effort that failed to engage key stakeholders and proposed untenable recommendations. Our team of Anne Carroll and Sara Peterson was selected following a rigorous and tiered search during which we demonstrated our commitment to an extraordinarily collaborative, transparent, and inclusive decision-making process.
We began our collaboration by working with key community stakeholders to design an inclusive and transparent process to engage the full spectrum of participants and build much-needed community trust.
Jointly with a community-selected Process Accountability Team, we used crowd-sourcing techniques, highly participatory workshops, and community gatherings.
Stakeholders worked closely and transparently to identify the needs and opportunities, build a cohesive and broad-based collaborative committed to a common vision, goals, and strategies, and successfully launch the Blueprint to prevent and end homelessness in the community.
Collectively developing the overall process design and plan 
Stakeholder mapping 
Creating meaning in teams to report out to larger group 
Creating meaning 
Creating meaning (with the local press closely watching!) 
Teams presenting out, in preparation for vision-goals-strategies 
Large group working on vision-goals-strategies 
Developing strategies 
Moving from strategies to implementation 
Final community session — and overwhelming support
