NextPlays is a social innovation agency

Designing and implementing impactful projects,
programs and enterprises.

Discovery Practice
Discover areas of opportunity by building a deep appreciation of community needs and aspirations.
Generation Practice
Collaborate across the community, government and commercial sectors to generate solutions and strategies.
Prototyping Practice
Design prototype value propositions and business models, then test their viability in the community
SEED Mexico
A community development project to help set long term objectives, identify new social projects and enterprises, so communities can take charge of their own economic development.
Isitia
Isitia is a development program designed to help youth envision a future they want and develop the plans and skills required to deliver on it.
NextPlays 100X
A 100 day proof of concept program tailored specifically for entrepreneurs so they can prototype, test and plan the success of their social project.

Current Programs

NextPlays 100X

The 100X is a one hundred day proof of concept program that continuously creates, prototypes and validates new social enterprises or social project, so that have a far greater success of being funded and supported to deliver on their social mission.

What it does

It helps you continuously improve and validate the quality of your idea and business model through needs assessment, concept development and business planning stages.

It helps you know what you need to do next and how to create a simple business plan and an easily understood presentation to take you there.

It builds connections with investors, grant funders and businesses to provide the support or resources required to get you to the next stage.

The intent of the program

The program has been designed to increase the pool of viable social projects and enterprises that can be supported by development, business and government partners.

Past Projects:

News

Isitia Amigos in Oaxaca

The team at  Fundacion ORB are going to partner with Amigos de las Américas to deliver the ISITIA program to communities in Oaxaca. Founded in 1965, Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) is an international, non-profit organization that empowers high school...

Unreasonable Mexico

Peter Salmon from NextPlays recently attended the Unreasonable Weekend in Aguascalientes, Mexico as one of the Mentors in the program. The Unreasonable Weekend assembled a group of local university students, social entrepreneurs and mentors (including Tom Chi, former...