Attract more funders.Build the buy-in that brings them.
If you want to attract more funders and gain more buy-in, this is the process. Your community designs the program with you, so you walk into every funder conversation with proof people want it and partners already behind it. Need survey-style data too? You get that along the way.
Free: your engagement readiness score, a plan matched to your goals, and our $1,200 toolkit. No sales call required.
$1.3M+Funding unlocked
1,000+Residents engaged
1,000+Data points
2024 Arts & Culture ID3A Jam
Trusted by
Berkshire BankBaystate HealthBerkshire United Way1BerkshireGreylockMass MoCABabson CollegeMassHireThe MountWestern Mass EDCDowntown Pittsfield Inc.Berkshire BankBaystate HealthBerkshire United Way1BerkshireGreylockMass MoCABabson CollegeMassHireThe MountWestern Mass EDCDowntown Pittsfield Inc.
Free · 2 minutes · 12 questions
How ready is your community engagement?
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.
Your readiness score for Attract, Collect and Innovate
Two specific fixes for your biggest gap
A matched plan, plus the $1,200 toolkit free
Capital raised,
Money the Jam process has helped bring in.
Funders back what a community clearly asked for. Here is what partners raised after running ID3A Jams.
$[TOTAL]Raised by Jam partners since [year]
$[X]Berkshire United Way
[What it funded, e.g. a new youth program]
$[X][Partner organization]
[What it funded]
$[X][Partner organization]
[What it funded]
What we believe
Here's something every community can agree on. The people closest to a problem have the best ideas for solving it.
Small Cities Big Futures Idea Jam, 2018
Who it's for,
Organizations that answer to a community.
Roots Rising ID3A Jam, 2023
Nonprofits
Show funders that programs come from the people they serve.
Leadership Grant Ceremony, 2023
Community foundations
Find where grant dollars will matter most, before you commit them.
Downtown Pittsfield Inc. Idea Jam, 2018
Municipalities
Hear from more than the same few voices at public hearings.
Small Cities Big Futures Idea Jam, 2018
Economic development
Turn resident and business ideas into a blueprint investors can back.
Health & Wellness ID3A Jam, 2025
Hospitals and health systems
Ground community health needs assessments in real conversations.
Culture Shift Summit, 2025
Regional planning
Bring towns and stakeholders to one table and leave with shared priorities.
The old way,
Months of work, and you still miss people.
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
The ID3A Jam way,
Three things happen in every Jam.
Attract
More funding, sponsors and investment, because you can show the community asked for it.
Collect
Quantitative and qualitative data that supports real insight, at a rapid pace.
Innovate
Test ideas for programs and services in real time with every stakeholder in the room.
Du Bois Sculpture Project Jam
1Weeks 1–2
Engage
We define the question with you and recruit the right mix of residents, partners and decision-makers.
Du Bois Sculpture Project Jam
2Jam day
Facilitate
Trained facilitators guide small groups from problems to ideas to votes, in person or online.
Health & Wellness Jam
3Live
Collect
Every idea, vote and comment is captured as data you can see while the session is still running.
Digital Equity Jam
4Weeks 3–4
Strategize
We turn the results into priorities, a program design and the story you take to funders.
What you walk away with,
Everything you need to act on what you heard.
✓
Facilitated Jam sessions
Planning, recruitment support and expert facilitation.
✓
Raw and organized data
Every idea and vote, tagged and ready to analyze.
✓
Insights report
Themes, priorities and direct quotes from participants.
✓
Funding narrative
Evidence-backed language for grant applications and sponsor decks.
✓
Strategy roadmap
Clear next steps for the programs or investments that rose to the top.
✓
A coalition
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.
BLBen Lamb Vice President of Economic Development, 1Berkshire
Proof,
What happens after a Jam.
PHOTO Berkshire United Way Jam add case study photo
Case study · Berkshire United Way
[One-line outcome headline]
Before[The challenge they faced]
After the Jam[Result, with one number]
[# participants] participants · [# ideas] ideas · [$ or program outcome]
We 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."]
CooperativePart of a certified B CorpBerkshire County since 2021
Good questions,
Before your first Jam.
Our promise
[Your guarantee, e.g. if the Jam doesn't produce usable insights, we run a follow-up session at no cost.]
Why not just run a survey?
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.
How many people do we need?
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.
Can it run online?
Yes. Jams run in person, online or hybrid, and the data capture works the same way in each.
What does it cost?
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.
What's in the free toolkit?
Planning templates, our Community & Market Research Whitepaper and the Berkshire United Way case study. It's yours to use with or without us.
Free · $1,200 value · Skip the diagnostic
Just want the toolkit? It's yours.
The same tools we use to plan Jams, free for your next project.
2024 Arts & Culture ID3A Jam
Roots Rising ID3A Jam, 2023
Leadership Grant Ceremony, 2023
Downtown Pittsfield Inc. Idea Jam, 2018
Small Cities Big Futures Idea Jam, 2018
Health & Wellness ID3A Jam, 2025
Culture Shift Summit, 2025
Du Bois Sculpture Project Jam
Du Bois Sculpture Project Jam
Health & Wellness Jam
Digital Equity Jam
