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Mpact:LAB offers flexible options for catalyzing local conversations and momentum

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Mpact:LAB works with local stakeholder groups to open up new angles on local challenges and build understanding among local organizations and leaders about how to move forward. To do this, the LAB facilitates MOVE Roundtables, Stakeholder Convenings and Transit Field Trips. The LAB also supports local stakeholder groups with tailored explainers.

LAB Projects

MOVE Roundtables
MOVE Roundtables

MOVE Roundtables convene a local stakeholder groups to explore a core local challenge or question through the lenses of Mobility, Opportunity, Voice, Equity. During this 6-week program stakeholders share both technical and real-world experience. They develop concrete actions to move forward using a context-based, collaborative approach.
Stakeholder Convenings
Explainers
Transit Field Trips

Featured Places

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  • Advance Transit
  • Tri-Valley Transit
  • Vital Communities
  • White River Junction VT
  • Charlottesville VA
  • AARP
MOVE Roundtables:

Charlottesville, VA

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MOVE Roundtables:

Charlottesville, VA

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MOVE Roundtables:

White River Junction, VT

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Mpact:LAB can help you!

Mpact:LAB convenes, equips and activates local stakeholders by creating the pre-conditions for successful change and collaboration. We can help you:

  1. Galvanize a group by identifying mutual goals and priorities
  2. Boost capacity by providing staggered training opportunities and real-time mentoring
  3. Fuel progress with a series of strategic actions that build toward larger goals
  4. Equip leaders to use an integrated, intersectional approach for regional transit, mobility and development work
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Stakeholder Groups

LAB Projects involve participants from diverse sectors.

The intent is to be targeted and strategic, to enable an exciting conversation about what could happen in that community.

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MOVE Roundtables...

Mpact:LAB’s signature program is the MOVE Roundtable. It convenes a diverse stakeholder group to learn together, organize and prioritize. The group meets weekly for six weeks to address a local issue through the MOVE lenses: Mobility, Opportunity, Voice, and Equity. At the conclusion of the Roundtable, they are on the same page and ready to take the next step, together.

Are Are Not
Cross-sector, interdisciplinary, diverse A group from one organization
Decision-makers and influencers Head honchos
Focused on a locally relevant topic or issue  Cookie-cutter curriculum
Interactive dialogue Passive webinar
Exploring possibilities  Technical assistance 
Knitting together a core group for collaboration Whomever is able to attend that day 
Figuring out what will work in this context  Applying a solution that worked elsewhere 

“I know we wouldn’t have had those conversations  – and know where they stand – if we had not had this MOVE Roundtable.”

Ambre Marr, State Legislative Director, AARP Indiana

“I can tell there’s a difference. People are connecting with AARP on more topics and with one another in new ways because of the Roundtable.”

Sheila Holm, Community Outreach Director, AARP, St. Louis, MO

“The Roundtable created an environment for honest and real conversations, something I hope we can continue to carry forward as we look to the 2023 conference and beyond, in our daily work.”

Tony Belleau, Transportation, City of Tempe, AZ

“We wanted to get a diverse group of stakeholders from along the corridor together to learn more about the transit changes on the way and open up a new sense of the possibilities this could bring.”

Dave Steele, Executive Director, MobiliSE, Milwaukee, WI

“This MOVE Roundtable session changed the way I think about community engagement, and I will be doing it differently from now on.”

Jarice Rodriguez, Transportation Research Manager, Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works, Miami, FL
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LAB Project Hosts

LAB Project Hosts are organizations interested in supporting a collaborative conversation in a particular location. Hosts range from national organizations to regional planning bodies or local foundations. We work closely with each host to develop a roster of cohort members and a plan of action.

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