The Forum is a new, multi-state initiative—now running in South Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Designed to help people be heard, find common ground and turn shared priorities into legislative action. Residents in each state are invited to join a state-dedicated online platform, participate in face-to-face deliberative forums, and advocate for broadly supported recommendations with elected leaders and fellow community members.

Common Good AI partnered with SHiFT to launch a pilot project in Tripoli, Lebanon with funding from IOM to test a more dynamic approach to civic engagement. Instead of a static survey, residents shared priorities in real time through a WhatsApp chatbot (via Twilio), with AI-powered analysis in Talk to the City (T3C) to synthesize community infrastructure needs across ten neighborhoods.

The primary goal of this digital collaboration was to enable the nonprofit organization to efficiently review and ideate strategies to simplify and streamline their internal performance management business processes. It demonstrates how AI can enhance—not replace—human insight by surfacing shared perspectives within a nonprofit team, shifting their mindset from individual frustration to collective problem solving—and help democratize organizational decision-making.

A group of thinkers in the Sustainable Development Goals Thought Leaders Circle (SDG TLC)  were inspired by United Nations’ (UN) General-Secretary António Guterres’ call for “deep and rapid transformation.” The group wanted to leverage the UN and its member states’ openness to new ways of working to propose radically new approaches. They used CrowdSmart and one facilitator commented, “The technology lets participants observe the universe from a different place, to see what's happening in the world from a different perspective.”

Village Media is a leader in community-based journalism who reach five million subscribers in over 150 small communities across North America. They collaborate with local news outlets to generate successful business approaches and high integrity journalistic content to build  profitable and sustainable local news sites. They are dedicated to making community news sustainable in markets of any size through a combination of industry-leading technology, community-based marketing programs, and award-winning editorial. 

As we learn and grow as an organization, we return to early collaborations to identify success factors and continue to improve our processes. This early case study is not a rigorous academic study, rather documentation of lessons learned based on key informant interviews.  When asked about how CrowdSmart helped bring participants to agreement around root causes, Dr. Garcia said, “this changed their minds… the term that comes to mind is empathy.”