fostering equitable, sustainable futures ​

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​Three3 (ThreeCubed) is a 501(c)3 research non-profit that conducts innovative and interdisciplinary social science research while offering educational programming, to promote the integrated achievement of the three pillars of sustainability—equity, environment, and economics—in combination. 
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Research/Evaluation

• Program evaluation
• Survey design and implementation
• Data harmonization and analysis​
• Public policy and trends analyses
• Technology assessment and forecasting
• Scenario processes​

Education

• Program evaluation methodology
• Sustainable development planning and design

Cross-sector convening and facilitation

• Societal futures assessment
• Stakeholders meetings on a range of topics from cross-sector trainings on health and housing to more broad sustainability initiatives​​​

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Project Status Updates

"Valuating the Health, Social, and Buildings Resilience Benefits of Improving the Energy Efficiency of Affordable Multifamily Housing"
A collaborative planning grant allowed us to develop robust and exploratory research designs to assess the health impacts and resilience benefits—both building systems and social resilience—of improving the energy-efficiency of affordable multifamily (MF) housing. The study began with assembling stakeholder workshops in these three sectors in order to solicit inputs to numerous questions related to the research designs. After wrapping up the planning phases of this project, we are full speed ahead with the implementation grant.

The cornerstone of the implementation grant involves survey administration to residents of a large sample of multifamily buildings throughout the northeast and midwest United States. Property managers were also surveyed to gain insights on observations of health and resilience status of building residents as well as the resilience of the building systems. We collected over 1900 Phase 1 surveys and have begun Phase 2 of the grant, which includes administering the ~12-month follow up survey to households for both treatment (weatherized building) and control (non-weatherized) buildings. Phase 2 was kicked-off Summer 2019.

This project is being supported by grants awarded by The JPB Foundation and eight utility companies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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New Project

​"Non-Energy Impacts Analysis for Xcel Energy's Low-Income Programs: Phase I"
The purpose of this research project is to conduct a preliminary estimate of possible health and household-related NEIs attributable to low-income residential weatherization programs supported by Energy Cents and Xcel Energy in Minnesota. This initial phase involves the measurement of likely impacts using secondary data resources. These findings are intended to produce evidence to gain support for designing a Phase II project–a robust evaluation of the Energy Cents and Xcel Energy programs using direct data.

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