Complex challenges. Practical ways forward.
Pineapple Flags brings together strategy, research, community engagement and systems thinking to help communities and organizations understand what is getting in the way, identify opportunities and move change forward.
Different Perspectives Bring Better Possibilities
Complex challenges rarely have one cause or one solution. We bring together research, lived experience, community knowledge and systems thinking to understand the bigger picture and find practical ways forward.
Understanding the Whole Picture
Looking beyond individual services or issues to understand the systems, relationships and conditions shaping them.
Lived Experience Matters
Making space for the knowledge of people closest to the issue.
Bringing People Together
Connecting perspectives, expertise and relationships across communities and sectors.
Turning Insight Into Action
Moving from what we know to what can actually change.
Our Impact in Numbers
Years of experience, relationships and community engagement have shaped how we approach complex work and help move meaningful change forward.
Experience That Connects Strategy to Action
Pineapple Flags works across the continuum of systems change by offering support in these areas:
Building Services: Turn ideas and identified needs into practical solutions, from new programs and services to pilots, business cases and implementation.
Redesigning Systems: Build the resources, relationships and partnerships needed to move good ideas further and create meaningful change.
Amplifying Impact and Influence: Strengthen advocacy, funding, partnerships and scaling strategies so promising work can reach its full potential.
Shifting Policy and Practice: Bring research, community knowledge and lived experience into policy and practice to create stronger, more equitable systems.
Sharing What Works:Capture learning, translate knowledge and create practical resources that help good ideas take hold and grow.
The Right Approach for the Challenge
No two challenges are the same. We draw from research, strategy, facilitation, policy, engagement and systems thinking, bringing together the approaches and people needed for the work in front of us.
Sometimes the work needs a clear strategy. Sometimes it needs better questions, stronger relationships or a different way of seeing the problem. We adapt the approach to what the work actually requires.
Complex Work Requires More.
- Grounded in lived experience
- Informed by research and evidence
- Focused on practical action
- Rich in diverse perspectives
We work alongside the people closest to an issue, while bringing the strategic, research and systems knowledge needed to understand what is happening around them.
The goal isn’t simply to produce another report or strategy. It’s to create something useful: a clearer direction, stronger relationships, better decisions or a practical path forward. We have the team to get help you get ideas on paper and then off again and into action.
What We Can Work On Together
From understanding a challenge to building a strategy for change, we bring the right combination of research, engagement and practical expertise to the work in front of us.
Homelessness and Housing
Bringing systems thinking, community knowledge and practical strategy to housing and homelessness challenges, from service design to coordinated systems change.
Gender Equity and Intersectionality
Supporting more equitable systems by bringing feminist, intersectional and lived experience perspectives into strategy, policy and organizational change.
Gender-Based Violence, Anti-Hate & Community Safety
Working alongside communities and organizations to strengthen safety, belonging, advocacy and responses to gender-based violence and hate.
Ideas Worth Sharing are Coming Soon
Pineapple Flags is building a space for thoughtful ideas about communities, systems, leadership and social change.
We’ll share reflections, useful resources and perspectives from the work we do alongside communities and organizations.
Our Commitment to Indigenous Allyship
Allyship is a continuous process; it is not a designation that one can earn and hold forever or a label one can give themselves. Allyship is earned through actions. We have a responsibility, as beneficiaries of this land, to acknowledge and understand its history and the current experiences of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and to be accountable to the violence they continue to face. We use this understanding to inform our work to ensure we do not perpetuate the harms of colonization and to begin to repair them and we invite our partners to do the same.