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Root Cause is a nonprofit consulting team that helps drive effective and enduring social change.

Our mission is to empower communities to build, improve, and sustain social change initiatives that enable all people to thrive. Since 2004, we’ve helped over 400 nonprofits, public agencies, philanthropists, and other funders achieve their goals while advancing racial and economic equity and justice.

 

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Program Quality and CQI Resource Library

This collection of methods, research briefs, case studies, and more aims to help social service organizations and partners learn, improve, and better serve people and communities.

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Field Notes
Staff Spotlight Podcast: A conversation with Consuela Greene

Listen, watch or read Root Cause’s Executive Director, Erin Rodriguez​​​​​​​, interview Principal Consultant, Consuela Greene. Learn about why she is driven to do her work, where her special ability to bring people together and facilitate groups comes from, and her excitement about the future of Root Cause and the social sector.

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Methods
Collective Action Framework

Collective action is the action taken together by a group of people who share knowledge, resources, and effort to achieve a common purpose. This framework summarizes key elements of Root Cause's approach to helping partners design, implement, and measure collective action initiatives.

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Irving Harris Tenets Initiative
Strategic plan to launch the Diversity-Informed Tenets for work with infants, children, and families (The Tenets Initiative)

The Irving Harris Foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children, families and communities by advancing human potential, social justice and equity, and creative experience and expression. Root Cause has worked with the Foundation since 2016, with a special focus on the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work With Infants, Children and Families.

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The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation
Farash Foundation Impact Measurement and Evaluation Plan

In 2020-2021, Root Cause helped the Farash Foundation develop a data collection and impact measurement system. The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation makes grants within Monroe and Ontario Counties, New York, related to arts and culture, education, Jewish life, and COVID-19 relief.

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Zero to Three
Zero to Three Facilitation & Convenings

Zero to Three is a membership organization that supports parents, early childhood professionals, and policymakers with the resources needed to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. In 2021, Zero to Three partnered with Root Cause to identify a cross-sector group of stakeholders who can bring diverse, current, and innovative perspectives about diversifying the infant and early childhood mental health clinical workforce.

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Principles of Engagement

Principles of Engagement guide our work and help us focus on what really matters for more people to experience lifelong success.

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More than 400 organizations - including foundations, nonprofits, public agencies, and more - have partnered with Root Cause to improve people’s lives.

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