Partners
MIT Partners
CoLab works with individuals from centers, departments, and schools across the Institute to support communities working on equitable, democratic, and sustainable development in the U.S. and globally. Below is a list of some of the Lab’s most engaged partners at MIT.
- Biodiesel@MIT
- Center for Future Civic Media
- D-Lab
- Housing Community and Economic Development Program Group
- International Development Group @MIT
- Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar Program
- MIT Center for International Studies
- MIT Center for Real Estate
- MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
- MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- MIT Energy Efficiency Strategy Project
- MIT Energy Initiative
- MIT Engineering Systems Division
- MIT Political Science Department
- MIT Public Service Center
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- SENSEable City Laboratory
Community Partners
CoLab works with numerous individuals from local, statewide, national, and international organizations. Below is a list of some of the Lab’s community partner organizations.
| Name | Location | Website |
|---|---|---|
| 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East | New York, New York | http://www.1199seiu.org/ |
| Advancement Project | Washington, DC | http://www.advancementproject.org/ |
| Beloved Community Center | Greensboro, NC | http://belovedcommunitycenter.org/ |
| blueEnergy | Bluefields, Nicaragua | http://www.blueenergygroup.org/?lang=en |
| Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU) | Bluefields, Nicaragua | |
| Center for the New Economy | San Juan, Puerto Rico | http://www.grupocne.org/ |
| Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | http://csrpc.uchicago.edu/ |
| Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University | Chicago, IL | http://www.luc.edu/curl/ |
| City of Bellevue - Environmental Stewardship Initiative | Bellevue, Washington | http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/environmental.htm |
| City of Cambridge Community Development Department | Cambridge, Massachusetts | http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/climateandenergy/municipalsustainability.aspx |
| City of Las Vegas | Las Vegas, Nevada | http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/sustaininglasvegas/ |
| City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development | Minneapolis, Minnesota | http://www.minneapolismn.gov/cped/index.htm |
| Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico | San Juan, Puerto Rico | http://fideicomiso.org |
| Consortium for Worker Education | New York, New York | http://www.cwe.org/ |
| CUNY Public Science Project | New York, NY | http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/groups/psp.html |
| The Earth’s Keepers | Philadelphia, PA | http://www.earthskeepers.org/ |
| EcoDistricts (formerly Portland Sustainability Institute) | Portland, Oregon - ecodistricts.org | http://ecodistricts.org |
| Emerald Cities Collaborative | Washington, DC | http://emeraldcities.org/ |
| The Enabling City | Global, based in Toronto, Canada | http://enablingcity.com/ |
| Fundacion Gertulio Vargas | São Paulo, Brazil | http://portal.fgv.br/ |
| Giral | São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Green Worker Cooperatives | Bronx, New York | http://www.greenworker.coop/ |
| Kentuckians for the Commonwealth | London, KY | http://www.kftc.org/ |
| KGS Buildings | Cambridge, MA | http://www.kgsbuildings.com/ |
| Konbit for Haiti | Miami, FL | http://www.konbitforhaiti.org/ |
| Mississippi State Chapter, NAACP | Jackson, MS | http://naacpms.org/ |
| Mothers on the Move | Bronx, New York | http://mothersonthemove.org/wordpress/ |
| Municipality of Bluefields | Bluefields, Nicaragua | |
| Municipality of Corn Island | Corn Island, Nicaragua | http://www.cornisland.gob.ni/ |
| Municipality of El Rama | El Rama, Nicaragua | http://www.elrama.gob.ni/ |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts | Boston, MA | http://n2nma.org/ |
| New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Boston | Boston, MA | http://www.nerche.org/ |
| New York City Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability | New York, New York | http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/about/who-we-are.shtml |
| Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights | New York, New York | http://www.nmcir.org/ |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition | Bronx, New York | http://northwestbronx.org/ |
| Passaic County, New Jersey | Passaic County, New Jersey | http://www.passaiccountynj.org |
| PathStone Development Corporation | San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico | http://www.pathstone.org |
| The Point CDC | Bronx, New York | http://thepoint.org/index.php |
| PolicyLink | Oakland, CA | http://www.policylink.org |
| The Polis Blog | Global | http://www.thepolisblog.org/ |
| Presencing Institute | Cambridge, MA | http://www.presencing.com/ |
| Prodepour | Port au Prince, Haiti | |
| Proyecto Enlace del Caño Martín Peña | San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| PUSH Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | http://www.pushbuffalo.org/index.html |
| Raons Públiques | Barcelona, Spain | http://www.raonspubliques.org/ |
| Rede Catasampa/Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Materiaes Reciclavels | São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Regional government of the RAAS (Southern Atlantic Region) | Bluefields, Nicaragua | |
| REOS Partners | São Paulo, Brazil | http://www.reospartners.com/ |
| SAGE Publications | http://www.sagepub.com/home.nav | |
| Serrafix | Boston, MA | http://www.serrafix.com/ |
| Service Employees Internationa Union | Washington, DC | http://www.seiu.org/ |
| Tallories Network, Tufts University | Medford, MA | http://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/ |
| UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access | Los Angeles, CA | http://www.idea.gseis.ucla.edu/ |
| UCLA Labor Center | Los Angeles, CA | http://labor.ucla.edu/ |
| Union of Minority Neighborhoods | Boston, MA | http://www.unionofminorityneighborhoods.org/ |
| United Nations Development Programme | International, in coordination with Managua, Nicaragua program | ttp://www.undp.org/ |
| Universidad del Rosario | Bogotá, Colombia | http://www.urosario.edu.co |
| Universidad del Valle | Cali, Colombia | http://www.univalle.edu.co/english/ |
| University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras | San Juan, Puerto Rico | http://www.uprrp.edu |
| University of São Paulo (USP) | São Paulo, Brazil | http://www.usp.br/internacional/home.php?idioma=en |
| USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration | Los Angeles, CA | http://csii.usc.edu/ |