Building communities beyond structures
Communities by Design helps organizations intentionally design communities and ecosystems where people, partnerships and ideas flourish.
The core message
Communities are not managed.
They are designed.
Strong communities ecosystems emerge when purpose, people, trust, structure and growth are intentionally connected. Communities by Design is a framework, a canvas and a growing body of research to help you shape them.
Purpose
Why we exist together.
People
Who we bring together.
Trust
How we behave together.
Structure
How we organize together.
Growth
How we stay alive together.
The Business Community Canvas
A guided journey through five chapters of community design.
An interactive digital experience. Walk through Purpose, People, Trust, Structure and Growth. Receive a Community Design Report with your strengths, weaknesses and next steps.
Start the Canvas
Community Baseline
A baseline study of how your community or network actually works.
Where the Canvas helps you design, the Community Baseline helps you understand. We start from what your community or network wants to achieve, and read population, governance, direction, design and structure against that ambition. No score — a shared starting point.
Discover the Community Baseline- Ambition and goals
- Population
- Governance
- Direction, position and type
- Design
- Six structural aspects
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Bring the Communities by Design method to your organization, network or country.