What We Do

Organizations tackling complex problems often rely on knowledge that is dispersed across people, institutions, and sectors, creating challenges for shared learning and collective action. Practitioners often hold deep knowledge and experience but have limited time and few opportunities to collaborate and share. Funders can't always see how individual investments connect across a wider system. Even the most effective solutions don't always spread beyond the organizations that pioneered them.

You're not alone in this — and it's where we can help.

At Solutions Insights Lab, we start with conversations. Through in-depth virtual and in-person interviews, we surface knowledge that exists only in the heads of the people doing the work, reveal patterns across organizations, and identify what's actually working. Then we bring people together, creating communities of practice where isolated actors become collaborative ecosystems. We stay engaged to ensure insights translate into action: tracking implementation, facilitating peer learning, and building shared narratives that shift how entire sectors operate.

Most partnerships draw on several of these building blocks at once, custom-built around your goals.

Research and intelligence gathering

We begin partnerships with in-depth interviews and analysis to surface patterns, gaps, and opportunities across your field or portfolio. This is the foundation everything else builds on.

We use the solutions reporting framework: understanding not just what responses exist, but the evidence behind their effectiveness, their limitations, and what others can learn from them. This distinctive approach produces nuanced, action-oriented insights that identify what problem-solving approaches practitioners, innovators, funders, and community leaders are actually using, and concretely how to replicate and scale them.

For *Rippleworks**, we conducted dozens of interviews with social venture founders worldwide to illuminate fresh entrepreneurship models for tackling some of the world's thorniest problems.*

For the Rippel Foundation, we spoke with home care workers and their partners in Philadelphia to help all stakeholders understand what's needed to foster collective leadership and shift power in a place-based healthcare ecosystem.

In partnership with Amazon Conservation Team, we studied what is working to protect the rights and territories of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI), and what it would take for those approaches to succeed elsewhere, drawing on interviews with dozens of Indigenous leaders, advocates, and researchers across South America and Asia.

Peer learning and connection

We bring people doing similar work into relationship with each other, building the collaborative ecosystems and shared momentum that isolated organizations can't create alone.

For the Livelihood Impact Fund's presbyopia work, we united organizations across the sector, from pharmacies to community health workers to independent entrepreneurs. This community has moved government to action in multiple African countries and supported the WHO in making eyecare a global priority.

For *To Zero**, we hosted a convening for funders to demonstrate that childhood sexual violence is a solvable problem that intersects with their priorities.*

For the Enlight Foundation, over five years, we are helping build a global community of practice for youth mental health, interviewing hundreds of stakeholders, from founders to funders to young people themselves, and leading working groups among the 25 organizations in the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab.

Narrative strategy development and storytelling

We turn op-eds, framing, and messaging into a story worth telling, built to move funders, policymakers, and the public.

For the IKEA Foundation's first integrated communications campaign, developed in partnership with Greenhouse Communications, we interviewed IKEA Foundation grantees and developed first-person narratives communicating the impact of their work on the ground. The campaign reached audiences through The Mirror, The Guardian, and the Financial Times timed to London Climate Action Week, alongside digital advertising on Meta and LinkedIn.

For *Digital Divide Data**, we consolidated 25 years of stories across three countries into one clear narrative marking their anniversary milestone.*

Event and workshop facilitation

We facilitate convenings, panels, and hands-on workshops, including sessions on solutions storytelling and framing, that bring your ecosystem into the same room.‍

For the *Skoll Foundation**, we convene climate ecosystem stakeholders — Indigenous leaders, regional organizations, government officials, media, and funders — at events like COP30.*

Websites, videos, and media

We build systems maps, searchable knowledge hubs, videos, and interactive tools that make complex findings usable and shareable.‍

For the *Livelihood Impact Fund**, we create videos and presentations to showcase insights at events like World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly, creating momentum for sector-wide change.*

For *To Zero**, we assembled a database of actionable wisdom from interviews with leaders on how to shift childhood sexual violence prevention worldwide.*

Results

Across our partnerships, we aim for outcomes like:

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Faster, clearer insight into what's worth scaling, and what to avoid

Connected ecosystems, where collaboration replaces isolation

Sector-level change, including policy shifts and coordinated funding

Stronger investments, directed toward proven, high-return approaches

Greater visibility for effective solutions, helping organizations attract the resources and partnerships they need

Stronger strategies, grounded in evidence, practitioner knowledge, and insights from across sectors

What we do

You're not alone in this — and it's where we can help.

Research and intelligence gathering

For *Rippleworks**, we conducted dozens of interviews with social venture founders worldwide to illuminate fresh entrepreneurship models for tackling some of the world's thorniest problems.*

For the Rippel Foundation, we spoke with home care workers and their partners in Philadelphia to help all stakeholders understand what's needed to foster collective leadership and shift power in a place-based healthcare ecosystem.

Peer learning and connection

For *To Zero**, we hosted a convening for funders to demonstrate that childhood sexual violence is a solvable problem that intersects with their priorities.*

Narrative strategy development and storytelling

For *Digital Divide Data**, we consolidated 25 years of stories across three countries into one clear narrative marking their anniversary milestone.*

Event and workshop facilitation

For the *Skoll Foundation**, we convene climate ecosystem stakeholders — Indigenous leaders, regional organizations, government officials, media, and funders — at events like COP30.*

Websites, videos, and media

For the *Livelihood Impact Fund**, we create videos and presentations to showcase insights at events like World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly, creating momentum for sector-wide change.*

For *To Zero**, we assembled a database of actionable wisdom from interviews with leaders on how to shift childhood sexual violence prevention worldwide.*

Results

Across our partnerships, we aim for outcomes like:

Bring Solutions Insights Lab to your organization

What we do

You're not alone in this — and it's where we can help.

Research and intelligence gathering

For Rippleworks, we conducted dozens of interviews with social venture founders worldwide to illuminate fresh entrepreneurship models for tackling some of the world's thorniest problems.

For the Rippel Foundation, we spoke with home care workers and their partners in Philadelphia to help all stakeholders understand what's needed to foster collective leadership and shift power in a place-based healthcare ecosystem.

Peer learning and connection

For To Zero, we hosted a convening for funders to demonstrate that childhood sexual violence is a solvable problem that intersects with their priorities.

Narrative strategy development and storytelling

For Digital Divide Data, we consolidated 25 years of stories across three countries into one clear narrative marking their anniversary milestone.

Event and workshop facilitation

For the Skoll Foundation, we convene climate ecosystem stakeholders — Indigenous leaders, regional organizations, government officials, media, and funders — at events like COP30.

Websites, videos, and media

For the Livelihood Impact Fund, we create videos and presentations to showcase insights at events like World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly, creating momentum for sector-wide change.

For To Zero, we assembled a database of actionable wisdom from interviews with leaders on how to shift childhood sexual violence prevention worldwide.

Results

Across our partnerships, we aim for outcomes like:

Bring Solutions Insights Lab to your organization

For *Rippleworks**, we conducted dozens of interviews with social venture founders worldwide to illuminate fresh entrepreneurship models for tackling some of the world's thorniest problems.*

For *To Zero**, we hosted a convening for funders to demonstrate that childhood sexual violence is a solvable problem that intersects with their priorities.*

For *Digital Divide Data**, we consolidated 25 years of stories across three countries into one clear narrative marking their anniversary milestone.*

For the *Skoll Foundation**, we convene climate ecosystem stakeholders — Indigenous leaders, regional organizations, government officials, media, and funders — at events like COP30.*

For the *Livelihood Impact Fund**, we create videos and presentations to showcase insights at events like World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly, creating momentum for sector-wide change.*

For *To Zero**, we assembled a database of actionable wisdom from interviews with leaders on how to shift childhood sexual violence prevention worldwide.*