Our vision and values enable bottom up strategies that add up to real change:
Grassroots Leadership: We build grassroots partnerships that are rooted in the power of communities working together to build their own solutions and determine their own futures.
Power of Partnerships: We ensure that the full range of community residents and their partners from all sectors of society are at the forefront of designing and implementing social change efforts.
Efficient & Effective Organization: We stay nimble and focused by launching and supporting innovative projects and help local communities leverage our resources to scale up proven initiatives through partnerships.
Strategic & Organic Growth: Our work is strategic as we utilize our resources to engage critical leverage points and build partnerships as well as organic as it evolves from relationships we develop with grassroots leaders and their communities. Tempest works in cooperation with local partners to host gatherings on issues identified by members of our network. Our local partners cooperatively invite teams to participate in these gatherings to focus on challenges related to both the global and regional dimensions of each issue, as well as developing concrete and actionable plans within and across partnering communities.
We build innovative partnerships to address critical issues and design new strategies on behalf of our clients. Our services, educational opportunities and consultative support directly serves communities, grassroots organizations, and the philanthropic sector to implement