Our Offerings
Strategic Planning
Our strategic planning services build your organization’s capacity to focus resources on what is most important and to proactively adapt to change. Throughout the process, we work with you and your team to anticipate, plan, and create your organization's future.
By conducting an organizational assessment and collectively identifying core capabilities for the organization to build on, we strengthen leaders' abilities to seize opportunities, overcome obstacles, and respond to a changing environment.
Our strategic planning process provides the self-knowledge, alignment, and decision-making tools that support organizations as they adapt to a changing environment.
Board Development
A diverse, skilled, and active board of directors is a core component of any nonprofit’s success.
We provide training on board member roles and responsibilities and nonprofit best practices. Our governance capacity-building services include facilitation of board self-assessments, developing a board composition and recruitment strategy to build diversity and needed skills on the board, establishing and implementing board member engagement contracts, designing effective board meetings, and additional board development coaching and consulting.
Facilitation
We facilitate interactive and engaging board and staff retreats, community meetings, and multi-stakeholder collaborations to support team-building, decision making, planning, and collective impact.
We foster alignment among teams of all sizes, including executive teams, boards, and staff teams.
Each facilitation is customized to fit your organization’s needs and is engaging, meaningful, and results-oriented.
Our Approach
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Research
Our research isn’t just a process; it’s a passion. We blend insights from our primary research with the latest local community studies, academic findings, and social sector best practices to craft strategies that are both innovative and deeply informed. By leveraging diverse data sources and thorough analysis, we provide insights that lead to informed decision-making.
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Collaboration
Our consultations are as much about the journey as they are about the destination. Embracing the principles of community organizing, we work alongside your team to foster constituent engagement, co-create solutions together, and build your organization’s capacities. By engaging your leadership team, staff, clients, board members, and other constituents, everyone’s voice is heard.
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Human-Centered Design
We believe in solutions that put people at the heart of the process. Through design thinking and experiential methods, we catalyze creativity and innovation tailored to your specific challenges. By focusing on the insights and experiences of our clients, we create solutions together that are effective, empathetic, and enduring.
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Customization
We know that each organization is unique, which is why we custom-tailor each project to your organization's particular strengths, culture, aspirations, and circumstances. Our processes and tools are flexible so that we can adapt them to best serve your organization. This ensures that every solution we create together is specific to your needs and goals.
“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
— Eduardo Hughes Galeano