BLACKSTONE RANCH INSTITUTE

The institute has been designed to be results oriented. We have made a deliberate decision to remain small and lean, and therefore operate with very little bureaucracy. We have successfully used the cross-sector dialogs and gatherings that must take place at early stages of meaningful social innovation as a way to leverage our financial and strategic support to pioneering organizations in ways that yield major social profit... We now know that in many ways we have been far more successful than we might have first imagined. A significant majority of the more than 70 collaborative gatherings, dialog processes and interactive educational modules that we have supported have led to significant action in the world. A substantial proportion of those has led to the creation of new networks, campaigns, and organizational efforts that might not have happened otherwise and have become foundational for the development of environmental and sustainability work in the years to come... We support..

Primary location: El Prado United States