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Beyond the Dots: A Conversation with the IAC Berlin Network
April 9, 2026 / SnapshotOn January 22, Root Change’s Rachel Dickinson joined a networking call with members of the IAC Berlin community to offer an introduction to Social Network Analysis (SNA)— what it is, why it matters, and how network coordinators can put it to practical use. The session was designed as a hands-on
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Introducing Rooty: A Digital Ally for Movement Leaders
December 16, 2025 / AnnouncementsAt this year’s AI for Development and Impact conference, hosted by DevelopMetrics in Barcelona, Spain, Root Change’s Social Technology Lead Aaron Leonard introduced Rooty – an AI-powered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) powered chatbot. Rooty is part of Root Change’s social tech portfolio, and has transformed how we work as a team by helping us address a
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Introducing the Youth Equity Index: Measuring What Really Matters in Youth Engagement
August 12, 2025 / White PaperToo often, youth are invited to the table only to be handed a script someone else wrote. At Root Change, we believe it’s time to flip that script and the Youth Equity Index (YEI) is our latest step in doing just that. Developed under the USAID-funded Youth Excel program (2020-2025),
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Root Change Leads Capacity Strengthening for USAID’s $99 million Inclusive Development and Equitable Assistance (IDEA) Leader with Associate Award
November 9, 2023 / AnnouncementsRoot Change serves as the Capacity Strengthening technical lead for the $99 million Inclusive Development and Equitable Assistance (IDEA) Leader with Associate Award funded by USAID’s Inclusive Development Hub. The IDEA Award seeks to enhance the technical and organizational capacities of organizations led by and serving marginalized and underserved communities including people with disabilities, LGBTQI+
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Measuring and Assessing Capacity: A Landscape Review
May 25, 2022 / ReportThis landscape review was developed for MOMENTUM, a major USAID-supported health sector program, but is of interest to all capacity development practitioners. The review describes different levels and types of capacity that can be measured; clarifies the distinction between capacity and performance; identifies key capacity measurement tool types; and, assesses the suitability of different tool
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Introducing Dynamic Reporting for Strengthening Development Ecosystems
May 3, 2022 / AnnouncementsThree and a half years ago, Root Change launched the Pando platform. Using collective intelligence to crowdsource relationship and feedback data, Pando is an online participatory network mapping tool that makes it possible to visualize, learn from, and engage with the systems where you work. The technology is the culmination of more than a decade
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Pando Equity Mock Report
May 3, 2022 / ToolkitThe Pando Equity Report is part of our Pando tool suite and draws from social network analysis (SNA) and feedback data to help users learn more about equity and local ownership in the systems where they are working. Analytics included in this report are based on our Pando Local Learning
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Pando Network Foundations Mock Report
May 3, 2022 / ToolkitThe Pando Network Foundations Report is part of our Pando tool suite and draws from social network analysis (SNA) and feedback data to help users learn more about key actors in the systems where they are working. It includes network analysis of four key actor roles: resource hubs, active networkers,
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Launching the Global Youth Excel Network Map
June 9, 2021 / AnnouncementsWhat if you could connect with other youth-led and youth-serving organizations out there who are passionate about the same cause? What if you could access additional knowledge, skills, or funding to advocate for youth in your community? Or what if you could share what you’ve learned with important sector leaders? Could you grow your impact?
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Youth Excel: Using Feedback to Foster Equity and Collaboration
May 10, 2021 / Program UpdatesThe USAID-funded Youth Excel program officially launched last week! Youth Excel will support young leaders and youth-led and youth-serving organizations to conduct implementation research to improve youth programming, build youth networking skills, and generate dialogue between young people and adult decision-makers to shape better policies, programs, and development agendas. To do this well, Youth Excel
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DPMI Moves to Its New Institutional Home: Root Change
February 26, 2021 / AnnouncementsWe are thrilled to announce that the Program in Design, Partnering, Management, and Innovation (DPMI) has transitioned to a new institutional home in 2021, Root Change! Launched in 2003 at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the 3-week intensive program now has 2,200 alumni. The shift from a graduate school to an innovative,
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