Want to start a Kudoz site?
Bring Kudoz to your community! We’ve designed Kudoz to scale, and built technology, training & tools that are totally adaptable to your area.
A desirable mission
Do you see inclusion as a big and unrealized ambition? In your area, how many youth & adults with and without disabilities spend their days isolated from each other and from meaningful experiences in the community? Set-up Kudoz in your area, and break down barriers to deeper human connection. Purposeful interaction is the basis for strong, reciprocal communities.
A proven theory of change
Kudoz measurably improves outcomes: strengthening mental health, increasing independence, building skills for employment, expanding social networks, and reducing stigma. For the last five years, we’ve invested in robust design and development to understand what works, for whom, when. These lessons are built into the model so you can hit the ground running. volume_up
Training and tools
Kudoz is always evolving in collaboration with the people who use the platform. We’ve designed state-of-the-art training and tools. When you bring Kudoz to your community, you receive support from our team of designers, social scientists, and evaluators. Each site gains access to a dashboard to track what’s changing, and to ongoing professional development to bring human-centred design principles into practice.
Collaborative partnerships
Kudoz works best when two to four organizations in a local area come together to host the platform and share the costs. We provide licenses to collaborative partnerships with shared values. We can help you set-up your partnership: we’ve got templates for MOUs and partnership meetings.
Local team, shared support
With a license, local partnerships gain access to all the technology, training, tools, data analytics, and physical materials to run Kudoz in their area. We work with each partnership to adapt the model to their context. Each local partnership is responsible for hiring a team of at least two people (or re-allocating existing staff positions), modest operations costs, and a yearly licensing fee. In exchange, local sites are part of the Kudoz learning network, gaining access to HR functions, ongoing professional development & coaching, evaluation, and design. volume_up
Expanded model
Kudoz was developed with and for adults with developmental disabilities—but research with newcomers, young people struggling with mental health, and older adults suggests that many of the challenges are the same: few sources of meaningful interaction in community. We are keen to work with local partnerships to expand the user base of Kudoz, working together to develop new component parts to fit more population groups.
Build community, in a smarter way
Kudoz bridges the online and offline worlds, leveraging technology to bring people together around shared passions. The research is clear that face-to-face interactions are the best way to foster mutual understanding, reduce stigma, and build the conditions for employment and independence.
Set your organization apart from others
Kudoz isn’t another program or service. It’s a platform that brokers connections between people, tapping into fresh community resource. By bringing Kudoz to your area, you’ll build brand recognition with new audiences. Plus, the design and social science methods behind Kudoz enable the model to stay innovative over time, giving your organization an edge.
Be part of a network of future focussed organizations
When you join Kudoz, you join a network of other organizations with a developmental and curious mindset. Your staff team will feel part of something bigger. Kudoz attracts a diverse range of people that share the values of real inclusion and a passion for learning and growth. Through our professional development offer, we enable design methods & social science ideas to take hold.
