Helping Businesses and Communities do Better with Less. The Compression Institute is a non-profit learning organization that can help you create and support vigorous learning work systems to enable organizations and communities to be more responsive and more resilient to global changes. We discover and share ways people and organizations can change the way they work to improve the quality of life of those on whom they may have an effect; to reduce consumption of raw materials and energy; and to eliminate the risk of toxic releases from processes.