SERVICES
Diverse clients require specialized services. Whether it’s supporting a non-profit agency to fulfill its mission, assisting a public agency to serve communities better, or helping community leaders to become change agents, I employ competencies, skills and tools tailored to each client. The issues or subject area can span from affordable housing, to economic development, to human services and can serve specific geographic or ethnic communities.
STRATEGY FORMATION
Whether you are a community group or a government agency, it pays to understand what needs you are responding to, know your own strengths and weaknesses, have a savvy picture of your working environment, set clear goals for where you’re going, and then execute a thoughtful plan. I help clients do this as they build programs, craft policies, mount campaigns, or improve their organizations or communities.
Campaigns
Communities
Programs
Public policy
Public and non-profit organizations
Strategic planning
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
I often provide clients with a specific tool, skill or process to help them achieve their goals. This could mean gathering data or conducting research to inform a decision or plan, facilitating a community’s planning process or an organization's program design, or pursuing resources to bring a program or plan to life.
Assessments
Community and place-based planning
Grant strategy development and writing
Issue- and sector-specific planning
Program design
Quantitative and qualitative research
FACILITation AND CAPACITY BUILDING
The success of any effort lies in the people behind it. I work with groups to nurture effective collaboration – within the group, with other groups, among communities, and between different sectors. Sometimes I plan and facilitate a workshop or series of them; other times I conduct community outreach or help a team build trust, increase cohesion, and create commitment to a shared goal. Whoever the group may be, I tailor an approach that responds to that particular culture, set of norms, and context.
Community outreach
Organization development
Training and workshops
Team and group building
EQUITY-BASED CHANGE
Equity principles are embedded throughout my practice, with a focus on system transformation. I particularly work to apply an equity lens or equity analysis to specific issues, initiatives or policies that clients are working on. I also believe that equity is not just in the “what”, or end result of a project, but also in the “how”, or process of the project, so I work with clients to identify and implement equity-guided processes.
System change
Applied equity analysis
Equitable processes
Equitable outreach and stakeholder engagement
Equitable strategic planning
Equitable research and data analysis