Overview
PopTech initiated research around transforming their organization from a conference to a think tank model drawing on their past successes in bringing multi-stakeholder taskforces together on issues such as violence prevention and HIV public health campaigns. I assisted in analyzing past work and current trends in organizational theories of change to create working guides and programmatic structures that would help them navigate the transition and continue to thrive.
The work primarily consisted of in-depth interviews with thought leaders in the design, philanthropy, tech, and social innovation fields who had worked with PopTech previously on a number of successful large scale public health initiatives. From the interviews we mapped out the PopTech Theory of change and collaborated with PopTech staff to develop internal operating assests to help guide future collaborations.
