New connections made through Common Purpose led to...

Frankfurt, Germany
Steven Valk is a Drama Turg in Frankfurt, where he regularly contributes to Common Purpose events. The chance to meet a cross section of Frankfurt’s leaders led Steven and a Common Purpose Frankfurt graduate to set up RICE, a strategic consultancy that links up creative organisations, from advertising agencies to Opera companies with social service organisations. RICE helps them devise formats where the service users of Frankfurt’s social services can develop their skills and participate in a meaningful way in its economy by taking up roles in creative organisations.

“For the first two years we didn’t have to do any marketing – the contacts I’d made and the reputation I’d generated on Matrix meant that clients came to me rather than vice versa.”
Dr. Alvina Grosu, Managing Director, Culturewise (Cork Matrix 2004)

“In a country like the Netherlands, where there is little or no tradition of citizenship, Common Purpose has a difficult but important job: to engage individuals from all parts of the community, and inspire them to transform society.”
Els Swaab, Chair, Amsterdam Municipal Theatre, Non-Executive Director, Dutch National Bank