Community knowledge is intelligence.
Sunroot Systems is a community intelligence company helping organizations understand communities and build systems with the people they serve.
Communities already hold knowledge about what they need, what is working, what has been lost, and what is possible.
Community Intelligence
Sunroot Systems creates processes for gathering, interpreting, validating, and activating that knowledge.
Our work brings together community-based research, participatory methods, facilitated dialogue, qualitative analysis, and systems thinking to turn lived experience into actionable community intelligence.
What We Do
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Understand community experiences, assets, priorities, relationships, and opportunities through rigorous, participatory research.
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Design meaningful processes for communities to participate in conversations, decisions, planning, and change.
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Translate community knowledge into strategies, programs, policies, resources, and systems.
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Equip organizations, researchers, facilitators, and community leaders with practical methods for community-centered inquiry and engagement.
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Use oral history, documentary, cultural research, and other forms of storytelling to preserve and share community knowledge.
Our Approach
Listen. Interpret. Validate. Translate. Activate.
Listen
Gather knowledge through dialogue, storytelling, participatory research, interviews, observation, Objectvoice, and other community-centered methods.
Interpret
Identify patterns, relationships, assets, priorities, tensions, and opportunities.
Validate
Return findings to communities for reflection, correction, and collaborative meaning-making.
Translate
Transform community knowledge into research findings, strategies, tools, stories, policies, programs, and recommendations.
Activate
Support organizations and communities in putting what was learned into practice.
Contact Us
Work with Sunroot to build research, engagement, and strategy rooted in community knowledge.