Values & Practices
In all our work, we strive to adhere to the following values and practices:
- Integrity: To act in the interests of the whole - our partners, stakeholders, and society at large
- Respect: To behave as equals in all relationships - with partners and stakeholders.
- Expertise: To be the pre-eminent experts in stakeholder engagement on controversial, complex issues.
- Feedback: To share mutual feedback with our partners and stakeholders, even if disagreeable.
- Self-improvement: To constantly seek to improve our skills and systems.
- Reliability: To under-promise and over-deliver, meeting our commitments on-time and within organizational budget
- Value: To deliver more in value than our partners and stakeholders provide in support
- Adaptability: To change course instantly, as needed to better serve our mission and the social need.
- Embedment: To transfer our skills and systems to our partners and stakeholders, so that they can do our work without us.
- Systemic: To seek to solve problems and meet needs at their root.