Joltage

Joltage is a social change design firm that supports the creation of community-driven solutions to complex social challenges.

We believe community members closest to the problems often come up with the best solutions.  We work alongside these community members to design, iterate and incubate micro-ventures: small-scale, community-driven and sustainable projects that respond to complex social challenges. We partner with community-based organizations and institutions to fund, support and scale, when appropriate, these community-driven, proven solutions.

In the course of our work, we use and teach design thinking and strengths-based approaches, techniques, and tools that help community members develop innovative solutions.  We embrace the philosophies of

“Think Big, Start Small” and “Start Local, Go Global”.