Community Intelligence

Community Intelligence is the collective knowledge, lived experience, relationships, histories, assets, and insights held within a community. It recognizes community members as knowledge holders and creates intentional ways to gather, interpret, validate, and translate findings into decisions, strategies, and action.

Community Research

Design and conduct community-centered research that generates rigorous, useful knowledge.

Services may include:

• Community-based research

• Qualitative research

• Community asset mapping

• Objectvoice

• Interviews and focus groups

• Community conversations

• Data collection and analysis

• Member-checking and community validation

• Research synthesis and reporting

Community Engagement

Create engagement processes that move beyond simply asking communities for feedback.

Sunroot supports:

• Community engagement strategy

• Dialogue and conversation design

• Public and stakeholder engagement

• Participatory planning

• Community advisory processes

• Facilitator development

• Collaborative decision-making

• Community validation

Community Intelligence Strategy

Build systems for continuously learning from and with the communities your organization serves.

Sunroot helps organizations answer:

• What do we need to understand?

• Who holds that knowledge?

• How should we gather it?

• How should communities participate in interpreting it?

• How will what we learn influence decisions?

Research-to-Action

Already have interviews, surveys, community feedback, meeting notes, or qualitative data?

Sunroot helps organizations move from information to insight.

Services may include:

• Qualitative coding and analysis

• Thematic analysis

• Community validation

• Findings synthesis

• Strategic recommendations

• Research reports

• Learning products

• Decision-making frameworks

Research-Driven Storytelling

Preserve and communicate community knowledge through research-informed storytelling.

Projects may include:

• Oral histories

• Documentary research

• Cultural research

• Community storytelling

• Historical research

• Story collection

• Exhibits and public-facing learning experiences

• Research and development for documentary projects