GLOSSARY
- Multisolving Multisolving is a way of understanding and approaching this complex reality so that we can prioritize the most impactful solutions. In the simplest terms, multisolving is the practice of identifying and advocating for policies and investments that can solve multiple problems, often across sectors.
- Shared Stewardship A growing network of people and organizations see themselves—and one another—as interdependent stewards in a movement for well-being, equity, and racial justice. Stewardship is never a solo enterprise. Stewards, by definition, work together to create conditions that everyone needs to thrive together, beginning with those who are struggling and suffering. When changemakers join in a movement of shared stewardship, they can transform legacies of injustice and create a system in which everyone has a fair chance to participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. Stewardship is broader(...)
- Stewards Stewards are people or organizations who work with others to create conditions that all people need to thrive, beginning with those who are struggling and suffering. Stewards have or want to develop an equity orientation in regard to purpose, power, and wealth.
- Systems Thinking A holistic approach to analysis and problem solving that focuses on the big picture to see how parts of a system connect as well as how our mindsets and actions shape consequences over time.
- Thriving Together More and more changemakers are organizing around a single unifying and measurable expectation: All people and places thriving together—no exceptions. Efforts to thrive together focus simultaneously on well-being, equity, and racial justice. Often used as the north star or moral compass in an intergenerational movement, our quest to thrive together affirms both dignity and plurality—we are unique people in a common world, each trying to live in a way that lets others live as well. When we translate that aspiration into action, it becomes a commitment to create communities in which all(...)
- Urgent Services Urgent services are services that anyone under adversity may need temporarily to regain or restore their best possible health and well-being. They include acute care for illness or injury (either mental or physical), addiction treatment, crime response, environmental cleanup, homeless services, as well as unemployment and food assistance.
- Vital Conditions Vital conditions are properties of places and institutions that everybody needs all of the time to reach their full potential for health and well-being. They include a thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, as well as belonging and civic muscle. When one or more vital conditions are absent or impaired, people tend to struggle and suffer, driving demand for urgent services. Urgent services are essential, but they are temporary fixes that don’t directly produce thriving lives.