Kukunori is a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering and uniting people and ideas to drive positive change. As an innovative community our mission is to develop, test and accelerate solutions that enhance human wellbeing in societies worldwide.
Kukunori establishes contacts between different stakeholders with a view to exploring synergies between them, thus nurturing cooperation, interdisciplinarity and innovation in solving societal problems through an approach based on the promotion of human and civil rights.
We at Kukunori believe that the foundations of mental health are built within communities – not only in healthcare systems. That’s why we have for years contributed to the development and scaling of the Guided Functional Peer Support (GFP) Model in Finland and internationally – an innovative, scalable, and sustainable approach that promotes wellbeing through creativity, participation, and local action.
Kukunori’s projects are working on the fields of culture, social welfare, health and human rights. Kukunori follows the principles of transformative, experimental and systemic design and creates impact through cultural action, collaborating and creating partnerships, networking and leading with data. Kukunori amplifies the unheard voices in society and creates sensemaking and visibility through continuous campaigning, events, training, publications, videos, animations, podcasts and community media. All Kukunori action includes people with lived experience with recovering from mental health problems, people with disabilities, people with history of substance abuse, prisoners and ex-prisoners and other marginalized people. Kukunori employs 15 professionals and a number of freelancers all around Finland.
Kukunori is also a technology organization that creates platforms, digital services and tech solutions for activists, organizations and people in need of help and support. Kukunori produced and coordinates the digital Pokka assessment tool for making wellbeing results and change visible. Pokka is used in over 450 Finnish organizations. Kukunori coordinates collaborative projects that are funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finnish Cultural Foundation and European Union.
