Our Offerings

Freedom’s Revival

America is steeped in an idea of freedom that celebrates toxic individualism, independence, and the absence of responsibility for others. Our connectivity becomes hidden behind capitalist structures that separate us from our own humanity and each other. Next River recognizes that true freedom can only be fulfilled in connected, caring, and accountable community.

Freedom’s Revival will map a long-term plan that will show us how to get there through research, collaborations with culture change experts, movement building, and meaning making. Our strategy will detail how to deploy the activations for change, and how to become the people who can create a future where we are free.

Freedom’s Revival uncovers the path toward authentic freedom that embraces our inherent interdependence.

We are harvesting the seeds of collective liberation.

In Development

  • Capital, Connection, and Climate

    While we understand shelter as a basic human right, the experience and concept of “home” is also vital. As social animals, we long for the safety and belonging we find in connected communities. Home is more than a dwelling, it is family and relationship, it is safety and protection, it is a point of interconnection with neighborhood and community.

    Finding Home will consider capital, community, and climate to create possibilities for marginalized people to secure their futures. This work begins with a research and design phase to create a collective home ownership pilot for a group of Black women.

  • Too many brilliant leaders are under-resourced and overlooked lacking the resources and support they need to flourish. Too many future practitioners are creating non-profits that they don’t want to run or taking on light-dimming consulting projects to fund their work in the world, and to just keep themselves fed and housed. While they are bogged down by IRS audits, managing staff, and fundraising, we are missing out on the fullness of their brilliance.

    Next River want to enable expansive, visionary thinking and experimentation by providing an institutional home for the architects of the future. The Quarter is an opportunity to liberate the creativity and energy of people who have typically not received these opportunities, so that their brilliance can grow, flourish and seed itself widely in the world.