Shared Platform

LegacyWorks Group is a network of changemakers and impact entrepreneurs stewarding place-based initiatives, social enterprises, projects and programs that address an array of community needs, challenges and opportunities. This diverse set of leaders and initiatives share a common foundation - building community resilience through cross-sector collaborations and public-private partnerships. Community leaders and initiatives that call LegacyWorks home are supported by the LegacyWorks Platform - a shared impact model and administrative support system. We custom built the core elements of the platform to foster the success of innovative thinkers and the networks they weave.

LegacyWorks Group holds space for this mode of leadership, both in communities and within our own structure. We know that each community has the wisdom it needs to confront its challenges and opportunities, but doing so is hard, and organizations often stumble when it comes to initiating and successfully implementing the complex collaborations required. We think every community needs someone to occupy the in-between space to weave connection, catalyze partnerships, facilitate collective action and follow through on project management and implementation. That’s what we are built to do. Our success depends on facilitating initiatives that are truly community-driven and collectively-owned, rather than organizationally-controlled and constrained. While we lead, facilitate and steward many initiatives, we don’t own or organizationally control any of them.

We have co-created LegacyWorks Group’s culture and distributed leadership model to foster the conditions for this work in ourselves, our organization, our communities and the world. We lead our organization in the image of Frederick Laloux’s re-invented organizations that enable people to tap their full potential. The LegacyWorks Platform provides the support and empowerment leaders need to succeed in their dispersed, highly collaborative, catalytic work. 

LegacyWorks Group began as a collection of projects and initiatives led by a handful of dedicated leaders in their home places. We have grown and are now thrilled to offer LegacyWorks as a home to other like-minded and like-hearted changemakers who share our belief that we can achieve deeper impact by collaborating across divides and tapping into the latent potential in our communities. If you share those beliefs and have the courage to embrace complexity and invite community ownership of the work ahead, LegacyWorks may be the right home for you. We can promise that doing this critical but challenging work is far easier in a community of fellow practitioners. We’d welcome a conversation with you about the possibilities of joining the LegacyWorks family. 

Sponsored Programs 

LegacyWorks serves as a home for a portfolio of impact initiatives, programs, projects, enterprises and public-private partnerships that would otherwise fall between the cracks of organizations and agencies or not fit neatly into their requisite categories. Some of those were launched by people on the team, and others were brought to LegacyWorks in various stages of their evolution. If you’re leading - or looking to launch - an initiative that sounds like what we’re talking about here, please reach out to us regarding possibilities in the arena of fiscal sponsorship. You can email our Executive Director, Carl Palmer, at Carl@LegacyWorksGroup.com or our Operations Director, Jessica Elliott, at Jessica@LegacyWorksGroup.com.