Since its founding in 1987, Community At Work has been both a think tank and a consulting firm. Our motto is “building models of collaboration and putting them into practice.” AS A THINK TANK Our purpose is to study the actual dynamics of collaboration and group decision-making – and to build more accurate models – in order to support people to find sustainable solutions to the world’s toughest problems. We take pride in combining insights from psychology and the other human sciences with the practical ingenuity of the business community, grounded in a philosophy of social responsibility. AS A CONSULTING FIRM We are organization development professionals. We specialize in providing collaborative approaches that enable our clients to address their most perplexing, system-level challenges. Our services have been put to good use in many different work settings, from high tech to health care. Over time we have developed content expertise in social entrepreneurship, community-based planning, and social enterprise. We also have numerous clients in education, human services, environmental health and international development. To support our clients in their work we employ a variety of consulting competencies: we assess and diagnose; we facilitate; we coach; we create, test and produce relevant models; we project-manage; we advise; we conduct training to build capacity – all this and more, as dictated by the needs at hand. A distinctive feature of our work is a determination to support our clients to think intelligently about the challenges they face. We are committed to helping people learn skills for putting participatory values into practice. To this end we provide clients with training in the concepts and skills of collaboration.