"The 21st century will be the century of the social sector organization.

The more economy, money, and information become global, the more community will matter.

And only the social sector nonprofit organization performs in the community,

exploits its opportunities, mobilizes its local resources, solves its problems.

The leadership, competence, and management of the social sector nonprofit organization

will thus largely determine the values, the vision, the cohesion, and the performance of the 21st century society."

Peter Drucker, Leader to Leader Institute

South Coast Community Collaborative Design Studio (SoCo Design Studio) is an alliance of expert sociotechnical design consultants who build strong boundary-spanning civic and commercial partnerships.

SoCo Design Studio is seeking to build community capacity to deal with complex civic challenges through enhanced collaborative planning.

As communities confront the rising challenges of sustainability and the pressures of competitive funding, collaboration needs to begin earlier and needs to be framed efficiently, effectively --- and with a capacity to retain flexibility for uncertain futures.

South Coast Design demonstrates approaches and installs the capacity to rapidly build shared frameworks to address the complex local and regional challenges of the 21st century.


Founding Partners include:
Decentralized Design (Decentralized_Design@inbox.com)
Critical Design International (Critical_Design@comcast.net)
CWA Ltd. (http://cwaltd.wetpaint.com/)

Affiliations include:
Institute for 21st Century Agoras (http://www.GlobalAgoras.org)
Green Light Foundation , Inc. (http://home.gwi.net/~greenlight)





SoCo Design Studio
SoCoDesign@inbox.com

63 Union Street, New Bedford MA 02740


SoCoDesign APPROACHES:

New Generation Program Design
Scripting Collective Narratives
Root Cause Mapping
Collaborative Decision Making
Stakeholder Identification
Complexity Assessment


SoCo Design was launched as a pilot project of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts (www.CFSEMA.org) in 2007


International TOOL BOX of approaches for community engagement and collaboraiton.