Partner With Us
Move complex work from intention to action
Root Change partners with funders, civic institutions, community organizations, coalitions, and mission-aligned teams to strengthen strategy, learning, collaboration, and the infrastructure needed for lasting social impact.
Find the Right Starting Point
Whether you are building a coalition, designing a learning process, launching an initiative, or strengthening strategy, Root Change can help you identify the right path forward.
Build or strengthen a collaborative network
For coalitions, ecosystems, cross-sector partnerships, and movements that need stronger trust, coordination, or shared action.
Design a learning or evaluation process
For funders and initiatives that need dashboards, reflection loops, action research, findings briefs, or adaptive learning support.
Facilitate a convening, retreat, or strategy process
For groups that need inclusive design, skilled facilitation, participatory decision-making, strategic adaptation, or action planning.
Clarify strategy and implementation
For organizations or initiatives that need roadmaps, team alignment, experimentation processes, or adaptive strategy support.
Launch or house a mission-aligned initiative
For collaborative projects that need fiscal sponsorship, financial administration, compliance support, and strategic accompaniment.
Explore a custom partnership
For partners working on complex challenges that require a tailored mix of strategy, learning, technical, and implementation support
Root Change is trusted by partners across sectors
We work with foundations, community organizations, civil society, government institutions, public agencies, mission-aligned companies, b-corps, coalitions, networks, researchers and academic institutions to move complex social change work from idea to action.
Ways to Engage
From focused projects to long-term partnerships, we shape each engagement around the challenge, context, and support needed to move the work forward.
Project-Based Work
For partners with a defined scope, timeline, and deliverable, such as a strategy process, evaluation, retreat, network analysis, facilitation engagement, or implementation roadmap.
Grant-Funded Partnership
For funders, nonprofits, and collaboratives seeking an implementation, learning, or design partner for grant-funded work aligned with Root Change’s mission and expertise.
Learning Partnership
For initiatives that need ongoing learning infrastructure, evaluation, coaching, synthesis, reflection spaces, and adaptation support over time.
Technical Assistance
For organizations, coalitions, and networks that need practical guidance, tools, coaching, facilitation, or implementation support to strengthen strategy, systems, collaboration, and learning.
Fiscal Sponsorship
For mission-aligned initiatives that need a trusted nonprofit home, financial administration, compliance support, grant management, and strategic accompaniment.
Interested in exploring a partnership?
Tell us what you are working on, what kind of support you need, and where you are in the process. We will help determine whether Root Change is the right partner and what kind of engagement may make sense.