- UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY PRIORITIES

The most powerful solutions start with listening to the people we serve.

As a consulting firm, TYTHEdesign works with everything from intraorganizational projects to citywide initiatives, and when we’re really lucky, we get to embed ourselves into a single neighborhood to learn about its culture, community, and rich assets. We can talk to residents and understand their experiences. We can glean insights from folks of all ages and truly learn about the needs and hopes of a community.

In 2017, we had the opportunity to work with Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) on expanding internet access beyond the walls of the library building, which, in a post-COVID world, has become a priority for many. In addition to being on the ground ourselves, we also trained local youth to map the community and brought their insights back to BPL to design the program. What we truly celebrate about this project is the toolkit we created to share the plan with the public–showing that meaningful community engagement does not belong to any one organization. This model of building programs with community rather than just for them is one that TYTHE stands proudly behind and continues to reiterate in our client relationships.