Stakeholder Mapping
Author: Jinelle Piereder, Doctoral Fellow, Cascade Institute
The Cascade Institute uses stakeholder and social network mapping tools to better understand our strategic environment, to identify and engage with key stakeholders, and to better assess our impact. Here, we present a visualization of an ongoing mapping exercise of people and organizations engaged in work on complex systems, climate change and energy transition, green/just recovery, and other fields relevant to CI. We include actors from across academic, philanthropic, civil society, government, and private sectors. Our database is built in Airtable and visualized using a systems mapping tool called Kumu, and functions essentially as a digital network rolodex. The map will continue to evolve as we regularly learn about new efforts and build new relationships.
Our goal in creating this map is not only to provide a useful resource, but also to ensure we seek out the best partnerships and collaborations, are not duplicating the efforts of other organizations, and are working to advance the Cascade Institute’s mandate around fair and sustainable prosperity.
This mapping exercise is ongoing and in no way represents a full picture of any of the sectors or fields represented. If you’d like to submit a new organization, project, or researcher to the map or if you notice an error, please send us an email at contact@cascadeinstitute.org
Zoom in and out by using your mouse’s roller ball or by clicking the plus and minus icons at the top-right of the map. Click the two arrows pointing to each other to fit the whole map in the frame. You can also grab and move the map background with your mouse to reposition your view.
Read an element’s whole profile by selecting it in the map. Toggle the side panel on the left by clicking the 3 little grey dots. In the profile, you’ll see the element’s label, type (which is colour-coded and shown in the map legend), an image/logo, a description, tags, website, city/state, and country. Note that not every element has every field filled in yet (this is an ongoing project!).
Focus: When you have one or more elements selected, the “focus” button will appear at the top-right of the map underneath the zoom buttons. Click it to filter away (hide) all the other map data. Use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the number of connections away from your focus. The number of elements and connections in your current focus is displayed at the bottom of the map.Is your organization missing from the map? Submit your organization here.
