Services
Strategy. Success. Sustainability.
Think and act strategically to advance and sustain your mission. We work alongside your staff, board, and stakeholders across three connected services.
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Strategic planning
We help you assess your current situation, identify assets and challenges, envision your future, and build a strategic pathway to get there.
A strong assessment and planning process engages your staff, board, and key stakeholders, and gives them the vision to take your organization to its next level of success.
Organization-wide planning
Goal-based plans built from an asset-focused assessment of where you stand, using customized SWOT analysis, online surveys, and visioning exercises. The plan works like a GPS, adjusting as conditions change.
Project planning
Focused strategies and detailed action steps for a specific initiative, with accountability built in so the plan gets carried out.
Planning retreats
Board and staff retreats that build shared understanding and set direction for the work ahead.
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Capacity building
Strengthen the leadership, structures, and partnerships your organization or coalition needs to carry out its mission and sustain its growth.
We work with boards, staff, and coalition members to clarify roles, build working relationships, and put in place the systems that let good plans become lasting results. We specialize in large public-private coalitions, from local to statewide.
Areas of collective action
- Early childhood development
- Housing and homelessness
- Crime prevention
- Adolescent health
- Substance abuse prevention
Board development
Board roles and responsibilities, recruitment, orientation, and training, so your board can govern and lead with confidence.
Organizational development
A clear look at your structure, systems, and operations, with practical recommendations for strengthening them.
Coalition building
Engaging key community partners, building consensus on a collective plan of action, and a coalition structure that holds up over time.
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Grant writing
Access the funding you need to put your strategies into action and reach your goals.
Our successful proposals have brought in many millions of dollars in direct funding and leveraged millions more, supporting work from affordable housing to crime prevention to early childhood education.
Grant research
Finding the federal, foundation, and other funding opportunities that fit your organization and goals.
Federal and foundation grant writing
Complex federal grant applications and large foundation applications, plus an expert review of proposals against funder requirements.
Grant training and coaching
Grant seminars and one-on-one coaching that help new and experienced writers reach their next level of success.
Our Board was guided through a thoughtful, step-by-step process to develop a three-year strategic plan that truly reflects the needs and future direction of our organization… We are now positioned with a clear, focused plan and the shared understanding needed to successfully move our priorities forward.
Access Dental Care
Strategic Plan, 2026