Our Services

 
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Core Knowledge Areas

We have knowledge and experience in a number of social issues areas, including:

 
 
 

We partner with organizations to achieve transformational change that addresses structural inequities and systemic oppression and builds power for public sector decisionmaking.

 
 
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EQUITY-FOCUSED RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

We are trained social science researchers who enjoy working with staff, board members, community stakeholders, and others to develop strategy, learning, and dissemination tools such as program evaluations, organizational equity assessments, and program briefs to answer questions and guide organizational actions. We partner with you to produce accessible and useful recommendations, case studies, issues briefs, and other items to support your decision making, and we have a strong network of designers and data visualization experts that support us in making sure we are bringing information to you in ways that you can put into practice immediately.

 
 
 
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Organizational & COALITION Development

We are passionate about equity-focused nonprofit organizational development and can provide planning, research, insight, support, and facilitation for such areas as board strategy and development, shared leadership culture development, organizational equity action planning, organizational and program alignment, leadership team development and coaching, and executive director coaching and mentoring.

 
 
 
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PROJECT DESIGN

Based on research, experience, and relationships, we partner with you to design programs that systematically address structural inequities and systems of oppression. We can work within your existing organizational resources to develop a project “from scratch” and take it through pilot, including developing recommendations for the next iteration. We can also work with your existing programs to provide or strengthen authentic alignment with diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, and are happy to work with your staff to build their competencies to deliver the redesign.

 
 
 
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Strategic Planning

We love working with clients and their program stakeholders to articulate theories of change and put strong plans into action to make those theories real. We can work with you to design a strategic planning approach that makes the most use of your organization’s time and other resources and that is centered on your mission, vision, and values. As part of this process, we will provide you with simple, practical documentation to put your plan to work, and we can even support your managers in aligning their team-member work plans with the resulting strategic plan.

 
 
 
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Meetings, Trainings, and Convenings

We enjoy bringing groups together — in real space and virtually — to effectively address societal issues through shared interests or goals, and we have a strong record as a community of practice convener and facilitator, particularly for geographically dispersed stakeholders with imperfectly aligned interests and motivations. We develop strong, participant-centered curriculum and can facilitate associated trainings or train your staff to do so. We can also work with you to design and facilitate productive, interesting retreats and other types of internal convenings for your staff and board.