Design

Make the ecosystem legible on one page.

Custom-designed maps and visuals built with your partners. Two anchor deliverables: SourceFinder™ posters for the full-ecosystem view, and Resource Rail™ maps for the stage-by-stage journey.

Delivered as

Print-ready files + digital companions

Co-design session at a whiteboard mapping an ecosystem

Two ways to see the same ecosystem.

Most engagements include both. Which one you lead with depends on who's in the room and what question they're trying to answer.

Greater Kansas City Ecosystem Map

SourceFinder™

The full ecosystem on one wall.

A large-format poster designed for the wall of a partner org, a legislator's office, or a funder's lobby. Every resource organization in the community, clustered by what they do and where they fit.

  • Full-ecosystem view at a glance
  • Print-ready files delivered to your organization
  • Digital version that partners can share
  • Annual refresh option for long-running engagements

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Iowa Entrepreneur Journey

4 stages · 42 partners

Resource Rail™

The entrepreneur journey, stage by stage.

A stage-based map that shows which partners help at which point in a founder's journey. It makes resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial journey easy to navigate.

  • Stage-by-stage partner assignment
  • Print-ready files delivered to your organization
  • Digital version that partners can share
  • Place on your SiteConnex website or partner websites

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Physical, digital, and accessible.

You get the visual artifact itself in both in digital and print-ready formats.

Entrepreneurs will find the most value from resources that are easily accessible. The SourceFinder and Resource Rail tools each make an excellent hands on companion piece when paired with The Resource Navigator online search system.

  • Print
    Large-format posterPress-ready PDF, 24×36 or custom dimensions.
  • Digital
    Web companionResponsive digital version, embeddable on SiteConnex or any existing website.
  • Data
    Partner data Data captured through a workshop with your community is analyzed and transformed into information for the poster.
  • Report
    Optional reportData pulled for the print pieces can also be analyzed and presented in a short report to share with stakeholders and community members.
The Colmena66 Resource Rail poster, a bilingual ecosystem map for Puerto Rico

Case study · Resource Rail

Colmena66 · Spanish-first visualization

A bilingual Resource Rail poster the community actually hung up.

Colmena66's partners span public, private, and academic orgs across Puerto Rico. Licensing our design, their team created a Spanish-first poster for their community.

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Let's draft your ecosystem on the wall.

Meet with me and let's talk about the partners you already have, the ones that need surfacing, and what a finished artifact would let your team do.

Krista Markley

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Director of Business Development · kmarkley@joinsourcelink.com