Collective Impact Labs accelerates ecosystemic change.
Mission-aligned ecosystems face systemic barriers to collaboration, limiting their potential for collective impact. As a result, many initiatives struggle to gain traction — and the collective potential of entire ecosystems remains unrealized.
We empower mission-aligned organizations, contributors, and funders to collaborate at scale through shared infrastructure, healthy ecosystem models, and integrated tools.
challenge #1
Organizations, contributors, and funders often operate in silos, duplicating efforts, missing opportunities to coordinate, and struggling to find the right partners or resources at the right time.
Our response #1
We develop shared frameworks and operating models that help ecosystems align around common goals, clarify roles, build trust, and sustain collaboration over time - without centralized control.
challenge #2
Promising initiatives remain under-resourced because funders, partners, and contributors lack clear ways to discover opportunities, understand priorities, or align resources around shared outcomes.
Our response #2
We create clear pathways and corresponding tools for people and organizations to discover opportunities, onboard, contribute, and collaborate — lowering friction and expanding participation across the ecosystem.
challenge #3
Even when missions align, shared infrastructure and common operating frameworks are often missing — making coordination slow, fragile, and difficult to scale across organizations and contexts.
Our response #3
We co-design and implement the foundational systems (governance, coordination, data, resource-allocation frameworks) that enable organizations, contributors, and funders to collaborate effectively.
Collective Impact Labs supports mission-aligned ecosystems by stewarding shared infrastructure across governance, coordination, and capital — enabling collaboration that is resilient, scalable, and adaptable.
Backbone stewardship in practice
GCA is the first applied context for CIL’s backbone model - a network serving the global Christian ecosystem by uniting ministries, church networks, innovators, and funders around shared objectives. GCA partners are leading interoperability and collaboration initiatives, with CIL providing backbone support through convening, facilitation, and coordination infrastructure. Separately, CIL is developing resource infrastructure models that are anticipated to integrate into alliance contexts as they mature.
GCA and CIL are co-developing three models of shared infrastructure to validate, stress-test, and refine backbone capabilities - not to create parallel centers of gravity.
Interoperability: unlocking silos
Two complementary initiatives establishing shared language, definitions, and coordination frameworks across mission-aligned organizations. By creating common ontology and measurement standards, CIL enables organizations to align, coordinate, and build trust — laying the foundation for interoperability without centralized control.
Innovation: Participation & Coordination
A purpose-built platform enabling mission-aligned ecosystems to connect, coordinate, and build trust. Searchable directories, ecosystem mapping, trust-based attestations, and secure messaging.
Resource Infrastructure
Resource infrastructure designed to test financing models that reinforce long-term ecosystem health.
Ravah transforms one-time donations into self-sustaining, capital-recycling engines through revenue-sharing with local micro-enterprises, demonstrating how capital can strengthen trust and accountability.
Join us to accelerate ecosystemic change.
Shared governance, coordination infrastructure, and tools that make alignment easier than isolation—there are several ways to get involved.
Every ecosystem faces the same structural challenge: coordination that depends on personal relationships doesn't scale. Your investment builds durable infrastructure — shared systems, governance, and tools — that compounds over time and serves entire networks, not just one organization. A $500,000 matching commitment is active through 2026, doubling the impact of every dollar.
We're a backbone organization, not a competitor. We build the shared infrastructure that helps mission-aligned organizations coordinate — and we succeed when you collaborate effectively without our constant involvement. Whether it's platform adoption, co-development, data sharing, or joint pilots, we design partnerships around mutual needs.
For funders considering deeper engagement, our Funding Brief covers the structural problem we're solving, CIL's backbone model, our 2026 focus areas, 12-month milestones, and our path to sustainability. It's the full picture in a single document.
The Collective Impact Labs whitepaper lays out the architecture — from the ecosystem fragmentation problem to our governance model, coordination frameworks, and the technology stack underpinning it all. If you want to understand the thinking behind the work, start here.
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer
Cameron Henrion is a strategist, operator, and mission-driven builder with over 15 years of experience spanning military service, nonprofit leadership, and financial advisory. After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy and earning a master’s in theology, he led sustainability efforts in anti-trafficking initiatives and ran a fractional CFO firm serving businesses and nonprofits alike. Based in Detroit with his wife and four children, Cameron co-founded Collective Impact Labs to equip purpose-driven leaders with the systems and support they need to thrive.
Co-founder and Executive Director
John F. Kim is a technologist, ecosystem builder, and impact strategist working at the intersection of faith, technology, and social good. As co-founder of Collective Impact Labs, he helps lead strategic efforts to explore and design future-ready solutions that unify vision with technology, research, and community-rooted practice. John’s work spans domains including decentralized systems, data governance, ecosystem design, and social enterprise.
Adminstrator
Emily Carminati is a creative strategist and communicator with nearly 30 years of experience across media, content, and operations. As Operations Lead at Collective Impact Labs, she brings clarity to complexity and helps translate big ideas into communication that connects. Emily is drawn to mission-driven work because she believes how a story is told shapes whether people show up for it, and she brings curiosity, kindness, and calm to every team she joins.
Designer
Yan Chen is an interdisciplinary designer with over 10 years of experience building products and services across Asia, Europe, and North America. As a Designer at Collective Impact Labs, she combines strategy, project management, and end-to-end design to distill complex challenges into clear, human-centered interactions. Yan specializes in building unified multi-platform ecosystems for diverse stakeholders and facilitating design thinking to drive innovation.
Operations Assistant
Ayooluniyi Zoe Ojeniyi is a multidisciplinary professional whose work spans creativity, social impact, and organizational support. She is deeply interested in how thoughtful structure, creative thinking, and values can be combined to design better systems, experiences, and futures for people and places.
She leads initiatives that support leadership development, creative expression, and purpose formation, with a background that cuts across nonprofit programs, community work, and creative strategy. Known for her clarity, initiative, and systems-minded approach, Ayo brings both imagination and operational strength to the teams and ecosystems she serves.
Her life’s work is grounded in exploring how creativity and structure can work together to help individuals and communities thrive.
Chief of Staff
Aaron Reuben is a versatile operations and research professional bridging the worlds of theology, social innovation, and investment. He has served as an Operations Administrator at Trinity West Church and an independent consultant. He holds a Master's from the London School of Economics and an Advanced M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Aaron’s diverse background ranges from developing blockchain curricula at Access Ventures to consulting for social enterprises in South Africa, all underpinned by a commitment to translating complex concepts into actionable strategies for mission-driven organizations.