Reconsider is a center for thought leadership, serving as an information and connectivity hub for the new economy. We take emerging ideas, particularly around community capital, and do deep research on how we can operationalize them, how we can connect the right partners and stakeholders to get them launched, and how the Great Lakes region can use these ideas to move the social impact economy forward. We provide contracted research services, facilitation, cross-pollination opportunities, and education through speaking engagements and collaborative events. Lastly, as an organization with a front row seat to the new economy, we get to see opportunities before the rest of the pack -- we incubate some of these great ideas within our organization and spin them out as related companies. In June 2012 we spun our first company out -- Revalue -- an investment advisory firm that helps clients connect with their money and their community.