Insight Labs

Lab partners in 2013 included Echoing Green, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Community of Democracies with the US State Department, The Creative Coalition, Akerman Senterfitt, Akina,[8] Freeborn & Peters,[9] Hellerman Baretz Communications,[10] Levenfeld Pearlstein,[11] and One North Interactive.

2012 saw Insight Labs partner with Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship, the Illinois Humanities Council,[12] the CAA Foundation,[13] Starbucks, Ashoka, Our Time, Social Capital Markets,[14] The Family Van,[15] and its sponsor, Harvard Medical School, Medical Intelligence, Foundations of East Chicago,[16] and, for a second time, the West Collection.[17]

In 2011 a total of 16 labs were conducted, with partners the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the Silk Road Theatre Project, World Sport Chicago,[18] the League of Chicago Theatres, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Genesis at the Crossroads,[19] Jewish Child & Family Services,[20] Union League Boys & Girls Clubs, the School of Visual Arts, Cannon Design,[21] Akina,[8] the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Generation Generosity,[22] the West Collection,[17] National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the University of Illinois Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

2010 saw the labs partner with the Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago Public Media, the American Parkinson Disease Association's Young Onset Center, the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, 826 Chicago, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Professional Convention Management Association, midVentures,[23] the North South Foundation, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission,[24] and the Illinois Commerce Commission

In 2009, the Labs conducted their first two sessions in their current format, the first with One D,[25] a confederation of Detroit non-profits, to address the gap between local jobs programs and corporate HR interests. Among the conclusions were ""Detroit has a rich, exploitable asset: thousands of men and women who grew up in Detroit and might very well return. Proof: HR professionals say their best odds of hiring out-of-towners come when they report Detroit expatriates."[26] The second lab of the year was held in partnership with Executive Breakfast Club,[27] with a goal of developing ideas to make the topic of business ethics affirmative and appealing, rather than a focus on "what not to do".

In 2010, The Insight Labs collaborated with Manifest Digital to create The New Architect, an ongoing web series following a free-flowing, talk show format that focuses on topics related to human interaction in the digital age.

In 2011, The Insight Labs was a founding partner of the first UX for Good event, a two-day design competition where user experience and visual designers, along with writers, visual artists, and non-profit organizations, were teamed up to develop solutions for systemic social issues such as unemployment, urban violence, and public education.[28]

Following the 2012 lab with Foundations of East Chicago,[16] The Narrative Renewal Project[29] was launched, to gather the inspiring stories specific to a challenged community (starting with a pilot project in East Chicago, Indiana), to put those stories to work, producing tangible improvements in quality of life.[30]