A facilitated session where your community designs the program with you. You leave with funding-ready data, tested ideas and a coalition that already backs the plan.
Free: your engagement readiness score, a plan matched to your goals, and our $1,200 toolkit. No sales call required.
2024 Arts & Culture ID3A Jam
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Answer twelve quick questions and get your score on the three things every Jam builds, the biggest gap to close first, and the next step that fits your goals and budget.
Here's something every community can agree on. The people closest to a problem have the best ideas for solving it.
Roots Rising ID3A Jam, 2023Show funders that programs come from the people they serve.
Leadership Grant Ceremony, 2023Find where grant dollars will matter most, before you commit them.
Downtown Pittsfield Inc. Idea Jam, 2018Hear from more than the same few voices at public hearings.
Small Cities Big Futures Idea Jam, 2018Turn resident and business ideas into a blueprint investors can back.
Health & Wellness ID3A Jam, 2025Ground community health needs assessments in real conversations.
Culture Shift Summit, 2025Bring towns and stakeholders to one table and leave with shared priorities.
| Surveys and consultants | ID3A Jam | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Months of fieldwork, then a report | Insights during the session, a report within [X] weeks |
| Data | Numbers without the story behind them | Quantitative and qualitative data from the same room |
| Who's heard | Whoever answers a survey or shows up to a hearing | Facilitated so quieter voices shape the ideas |
| Buy-in | The plan arrives finished and gets pushback | Participants co-design it, so they champion it |
| Funding | You still have to build the case | Evidence and a narrative funders ask for |
More funding, sponsors and investment, because you can show the community asked for it.
Quantitative and qualitative data that supports real insight, at a rapid pace.
Test ideas for programs and services in real time with every stakeholder in the room.
Du Bois Sculpture Project JamWe define the question with you and recruit the right mix of residents, partners and decision-makers.
Du Bois Sculpture Project JamTrained facilitators guide small groups from problems to ideas to votes, in person or online.
Health & Wellness JamEvery idea, vote and comment is captured as data you can see while the session is still running.
Digital Equity JamWe turn the results into priorities, a program design and the story you take to funders.
Planning, recruitment support and expert facilitation.
Every idea and vote, tagged and ready to analyze.
Themes, priorities and direct quotes from participants.
Evidence-backed language for grant applications and sponsor decks.
Clear next steps for the programs or investments that rose to the top.
Participants who helped design the plan and want to see it happen.
Their Idea Jam product has become a great model for bringing together collective voices over common challenges.
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Team R3SET, 2018We started R3SET Agency in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 2021 as a cooperative, so the people doing the work share in what it builds. ID3A Jam came out of our own community work in Berkshire County, where we kept seeing good programs stall for lack of real input and real buy-in.
[One or two lines in your own voice about why you started, like Vinh's "I started as a magician. Seriously."]
[Your guarantee, e.g. if the Jam doesn't produce usable insights, we run a follow-up session at no cost.]
Surveys tell you what people pick from your options. A Jam lets them propose options, discuss tradeoffs and vote, so you get the numbers and the reasons behind them. People who helped design a plan also show up to support it.
A Session works with [N–N] participants. The Accelerator brings several groups together across a series of Jams. We help you recruit the right mix.
Yes. Jams run in person, online or hybrid, and the data capture works the same way in each.
The ID3A Jam Academy is $3,000 and trains your own team to run Jams. Sessions start at $[X] and the Accelerator starts at $[X]. The final price depends on the number of sessions and participants.
Planning templates, our Community & Market Research Whitepaper and the Berkshire United Way case study. It's yours to use with or without us.
The same tools we use to plan Jams, free for your next project.