Partners & sectors
Cross-sector collaboration,
compounding evidence.
Ztnexus partners with public agencies, universities, foundations and nonprofits — and connects what each learns into a shared evidence base.
Public agencies
Government teams face the hardest version of the capability problem: high stakes, high turnover, and programs that must work at scale. We design training that survives staff rotation and budget cycles, and outcome frameworks that hold up to public scrutiny.
Universities
Universities produce much of the evidence we synthesize — and often struggle to see it applied. We partner with academic teams to translate research into practitioner curricula, and to carry practice questions back into the research agenda.
Foundations
Funders want grantee capability, not just grantee activity. Our engagements are designed to build training and evaluation into a portfolio, so a board sees documented outcomes rather than anecdotes.
Nonprofits
Mission-driven teams rarely have slack for training that doesn't stick. Our engagements are scoped to thin budgets, delivered fast, and measured against the community-level outcomes the organization exists to produce.
The shared evidence base
Learning in one sector,
strengthening strategy in another.
Every measured engagement adds to a cross-sector evidence base maintained by the institute, and partners draw on it during Synthesize and Design. Each engagement starts a little further ahead than the one before it.
Contribute
Close-out findings are synthesized (with partner consent and appropriate anonymization) into the shared base.
Draw
New engagements start from what has already been tested across sectors, not from a blank page.
Align
Common outcome frameworks make results comparable across programs, portfolios and sectors.
Exploring a partnership?
Whether you're a funder, an agency or a frontline organization, the first step is the same: a discovery conversation.