Research: 2006 Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON)

Innovation Insight provided yearlong research consultation services in partnership with the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning for the Barr Foundation of Boston. The purpose of the research was to develop a research program that spanned three languages and several Boston communities, to empirically document the “social capital” of grantee organizations and how strategic network analysis could help them better leverage their network resources for policy change. The research included development of a novel hybrid “name generator / position generator” research instrument to simultaneously map networks and social capital