Cen-Alliance is the next step in that evolution. It builds on Centric’s legacy but goes beyond research - at its core it is a “social broker”: using its ability to navigate both system and communities to build “unlikely alliances” — trusted relationships between and within communities and institutions that bring the tools for change into communities. These alliances are not performative. They are rooted in trust and mutual benefit, shaped by lived experience, and designed to transfer resource, infrastructure and knowledge to the people and places most often excluded from them.
Cen-Alliance is currently bringing its brokership model to life
through Two core workstreams — each
one
designed to shift the power dynamic and make systems more
responsive to the communities they affect.
Global Projects, Local Power: Community-Led Research for Real-World Change
