Vision: Catalyze the evolution of individuals and organizations making a profoundly positive impact on people and planet.
Mission:
- Put into action the best ideas, systems and technology that creates a more just and sustainable world.
- Deliver unique impact by providing a physical home that integrates Boulder’s communities in social innovation.
- Pollinate the top ideas, lessons and opportunities among the sub-groups of experts in Boulder and Colorado, creating new companies and jobs, while firmly connecting Boulder with the global networks of change-makers.
Values:
- Action: Beyond simply appreciating new ideas, and models pioneered elsewhere, we focus on implementation and measurable outcomes.
- Community: At its core, the HUB is a diverse collection of people and organizations brought together by their common interest in collective impact on society and the environment.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Foster the creativity and innovation that supports the drive and determination necessary to make new ideas come to fruition.
- Inclusivity: Ensure the HUB is welcoming to people from radically different backgrounds offer a safe place for people from diverse faith, fields of interest, sectors, backgrounds, points of view, and political and spiritual affiliations.
- Collaboration: Actively promote and catalyze learning, sharing, cross-disciplinary dialog and new business opportunities among individuals, organizations, sub-communities, and sectors.
- Learning: We want to question existing assumptions and continuously seek new knowledge/wisdom through a “learning” community.
Impact Metrics: While we know our metrics will evolve with our understanding, we will start measuring these impacts:
- Productive collisions
- Newly catalyzed initiatives and companies
- Increased local impact investment dollars
- Increased awareness of social impact in traditional business
- Increased knowledge and deployment of social innovation practices by members
- Gross regional happiness (leveraging progress index from Kingdom of Bhutan)
