Voices of Change is the foundation’s research and advocacy arm. It exists because the programs we build are only as good as the questions we ask — and the questions are best asked by the people living the answers.
What it does
- Quarterly convenings on the lived experience of loneliness, transition, and community
- Working groups that translate community insight into program design
- Public advocacy on social-connection policy at the local and state level
Why a think tank, in a friendship organization
Real friendship is political — it shapes whose stories get told, whose needs get budgeted for, and which neighborhoods get listened to. Voices keeps the foundation honest, and gives the people we walk with a structural way to push back when we get it wrong.