Bringing out the best in organizations.


Our Mission

To be a catalyst for nonprofit impact through collaboration & experimentation.


We believe nonprofits are essential to building thriving communities. As a 501c3 private foundation, reDirect helps organizations build capacity through grant funding and coaching in our framework. Through this work, we envision a transformed nonprofit sector in which people flourish.



OUR PROGRAMS
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The Big Idea

Effectiveness starts with our environments.

In other words, our context can help or hurt our ability to achieve our goals and do our best work. While simple, this idea is extraordinary. It means that organizations can transform themselves by understanding how to create more supportive environments for their people.

Our Framework At a Glance

Our evidence-based framework, Supportive Environments for Effectiveness (SEE), is built on decades of research in the field of environmental psychology. We condensed all the science into a flexible framework with three guiding principles:

Bandwidth. We need to feel competent and clear-headed to navigate the world of information we encounter every day.

Being Capable / Bandwidth domain icon for the SEE framework.

Meaningful Engagement. We need to know that our efforts matter, and have opportunities to participate in things we care about.

Meaningful Action / Meaningful Engagement domain icon for the SEE framework.

Understanding. We care deeply about understanding and exploring the world around us.

Model Building / Understanding domain icon for the SEE framework.
OUR FRAMEWORK

What’s Possible With SEE?

Placing supportive environments at the center of organizational decision-making helps nonprofits realize the potential of their staff, communications, and programs.

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Supported Staff

Working in a nonprofit can be an incredibly rewarding experience—and an incredibly exhausting one. SEE helps organizations identify what’s working and what isn’t in the organizational culture, developing strategies that enable staff to feel energized, equipped, and valued.

reDirect grantees from our 2024 East-Central Iowa cohort collaborating and learning about our SEE framework, and sharing small experiments they have tried during their training.

Productive Communications

The way nonprofits share information matters—too much or too little can both lead to undesirable outcomes. Our process helps organizations understand the ways people engage with information, and rethink “business as usual” communications.

Group of diverse volunteers from Habitat for Humanity Metro Denver in construction helmets, holding a colorful welcome home banner outside a house under construction.

Impactful Programs

Program work is at the heart of every nonprofit’s mission. Our process can help organizations clarify program aims so they’re clear and actionable, and develop environments ripe for collaboration and innovation.

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