IDEAS. ACTION. IMPACT.
It sounds easy.
From our decades of experience, we know it’s not.
However, new methods and perspectives can help shift systems to work better for everyone. At Foresight Collective, we partner with diverse clients to foster more vibrant, just, and sustainable organizations and communities. We are a cooperatively organized consulting firm with more than 35+ years of combined experience applying traditional and emerging approaches to creating a better world.
From Strategy to Implementation
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Launch
Define vision and identify opportunity. Mitigate and navigate challenges. Execute.
Can look like: new philanthropic initiatives, nonprofit programs, collaboratives.
Our difference: Broad experience with standing up new undertakings in both nonprofit and private sectors, from concept to launch. -
Optimize
Get unstuck. Refine, align and overcome. Navigate change. Grow.
Can look like: organizational development, process improvement, alternatives to strategic planning.
Our difference: Nonprofit veterans and active listeners with broad perspective, diverse toolkit, and commitment to helping clients define and achieve true progress. -
Convene
Design and facilitate meaningful gatherings. Surface insights. Deepen connections. Assemble.
Can look like: staff retreats, grantee convenings, ecosystem strategy sessions.
Our difference: beyond “meeting planning,” we design experiences that are more engaging, productive, and fun.
We have particular experience with…
ISSUES
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Collective efforts to work across organizations and sectors.
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Including family, community, and corporate foundations and donor collaboratives.
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Essential entities providing connectivity, capacities, and resources to the nonprofit ecosystem.
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From community groups to universities.
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Affordable Housing, Nature-Based Solutions, Land Use, Arts and Culture.
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Entrepreneurship, Workforce Development, Corporate Sustainability & Education, and Economic Justice.
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Climate (mitigation & resilience), Energy (renewable, smart grid), Water, Agriculture, Land Conservation.
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Disability Issues, Education Justice, LGBTQIA Communities, Literacy, Food Access, Youth Leadership Development, Racial Wealth Gap.
ENTITIES
Co-Founders
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Principal & Co-Founder
Janai was inspired by her personal experiences and observations growing up in a low-Income community to pursue a career in the social impact space. For more than 10 years she worked on initiatives focused on capacity building, community and economic development, and advancing racial equity across the Metro Detroit nonprofit community.
Key Values: people-centered, inclusive and equitable, collaborative.
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Principal & Co-Founder
Peter pivoted into sustainability and social impact challenges wanting to apply his study of Innovation and Design to meaningful pursuits. For more than 20 years, he led Foresight Design Initiative as it evolved and offered popular public programs, forward-looking educational programs, and uniquely-informed consulting services to clients ranging from community groups to large institutional nonprofits and foundations.
Key Values: enabling, learning & sharing, committed to belonging.
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Professional Network
Foresight possesses a large, informal network of diversely skilled professionals from across the region and world whose knowledge and expertise often informs our work.