People. Possibility. Public benefit.A 501(c)(3) nonprofit · U.S. & Brazil
Opportunity should not depend on who you know.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping underrepresented founders, researchers and communities test ideas, develop ventures and build new capabilities. Our programs, people and platforms connect learning with action across the U.S. and Brazil.
See possibility become practice
Try something real.
Bring people together.
Learn by making.
Shared possibility.
From possibility to practice
Think. Build. Change.
A great idea is only the beginning. People also need the confidence to test it, the tools to develop it, and a community that helps the work continue.
We bring those pieces together, with equity, sustainability and public benefit shaping the questions we ask.
See how an idea takes shapeStart with a question worth asking.
Listen to the people affected. Separate what is known from what needs a useful test.
A clear challenge brief
- People
- Who experiences the problem?
- Question
- What would make their experience better?
- Next move
- Choose one assumption to investigate.
Make the learning tangible.
A conversation, model or small prototype gives people something to respond to. Learn before the commitment becomes too large.
A practical experiment
- Make
- A small version of the idea.
- Try
- Put it in front of the people it is for.
- Notice
- Record what changes your thinking.
Help the work take root.
Carry the learning into a real setting. Share the tools, responsibilities and experience people need to keep going.
A next-step plan
- Decide
- What should continue or change?
- Prepare
- Who will carry the work forward?
- Share
- What can another team learn from this?
Where would you like to begin?
There is a place for you here.Give your idea its next step.
A useful conversation starts with the problem you want to solve. Tell us who it affects, what you have tried, and where support could help.
The problem, the people affected and what you have tried.
Choose one assumption to investigate.
Bring what you know. Help someone move forward.
Experience becomes more valuable when it is shared. Explore mentoring, teaching, and practical collaboration with innovators and teams.
The experience you can share and the questions you enjoy working on.
Explore a mentoring, teaching or collaboration role.
Build your team's capacity to create change.
Start with the challenge your organization is working on. We can discuss practical learning, innovation programs, and partnerships shaped around your context.
Your team, community and a challenge that needs a clearer path.
Discuss a program, platform or shared experiment.
Our capabilities
More ways to move
good work forward.
From the first question to the next useful step.
A program for a team
Innovation programs
Build the ability to turn a community challenge into a useful experiment.
Workshops, challenge framing, validation and pilot design.
A challenge brief
Understand the situation. Design a small test. Decide what to learn next.
Support for an idea
Founder & venture development
Give an idea the structure, evidence and support it needs to move forward.
Customer discovery, business models, mentorship and venture decisions.
An experiment plan
Name the assumption. Talk with potential users. Choose the next useful test.
Research with a route to use
Research to real-world use
Explore where a technology could create value, and what needs to be tested first.
Technology assessment, use cases and commercialization pathways.
A technology-use brief
Explore a use case, supporting evidence and the questions that deserve further work.
A clearer use for AI
AI & practical digital tools
Put useful intelligence within reach of the people making the decisions.
Guided analysis, research discovery and practical AI support.
A practical workflow
Start with one real task. Consider the input, a useful draft and the human review.
A better way to work together
Leadership & collaboration
Help people work through complex questions across disciplines and institutions.
Facilitation, systems thinking and shared plans for action.
A shared agenda
Make goals, responsibilities and the next shared experiment explicit.
Knowledge moving both ways
Connections across borders
Bring local knowledge into conversations between the United States and Brazil.
Cross-cultural learning, ecosystem connections and collaboration.
A collaboration brief
Connect local context, complementary experience and a practical purpose.
In the room. Across borders.
The work gets better
when people meet.
Ideas develop in conversation, in a workshop, on a visit, and in the space between different experiences. Our community connects people building across the United States and Brazil.
Explore our communityPeople, practice and platforms
Support that
fits together.
A program can build a team’s capability. A platform can bring structure to a decision. A collaboration can bring a missing perspective into the room.
We connect them around the people and question at hand.
See the platform familyOne neighborhood repair idea.
Explore what each part of the support could add.
Learn from a recent repair decision.
Ask a resident to describe the last item that broke, what they did and what got in the way.
A question grounded in someone’s experience.
Give one assumption a small test.
Sketch a simple repair-day invitation. Ask residents and repair providers to respond before building an app.
A way to learn before investing in software.
Bring structure to the next decision.
Use a structured venture assessment to organize the evidence, gaps and next questions around the same service idea.
A clearer brief for what to investigate next.
360-owned platforms
Better questions.
More useful tools.
Assess a venture. Explore a technology. Find a relevant connection. Share what you are building.
Our platforms extend the work beyond a single conversation. They are owned by 360 Social Impact Studios and offered through Arkus Innovation Studios, an AI studio operating in the U.S. and Brazil.
Explore our platformsReal people.
Shared ambition.