We believe that people and communities are agents of their
own change and simultaneously everyone in or connected to a community are contributors to its wellbeing.
Our goals are twofold:
- to support your organization, institution or business to leverage your mission, talent and strategies to help make transformative change in communities.
- to provide your staff with the resources, skills, knowledge and confidence they need to work in and with community.
Our practice is to bring a collaborative mindset to all of our projects, working together with institutions, governments and businesses to align purpose with strategies and actions in order to bring change to communities. We offer a suite of comprehensive services to support you in advancing your community goals.
Strategic Planning for Community Impact:
We help you build and strengthen your unique contribution to healthy, equitable and sustainable communities by designing community-centred strategies in order to create opportunities for positive change.
Our services include:
- Theory of Change: Ensuring your mission and vision is aligned with your strategic directions and actions
- Organizational 10 Keys Analysis: Leveraging the Connected Community Approach to guide the development of your strategic plan
- Community Engagement Framework: Exploring a shared understanding of the principles that guide community engagement, building the assets and relationships that are foundational to the local context and designing actions that can be taken to forge sustainable relationships with the community
Organizational Analysis:
We support you to leverage the assets you currently have in order to maximize your community impact.
Our services include:
- Financial & Operational Review: Performing a SWOT analysis of your organizational infrastructure in order maximize your community impact goals
- Internal Asset Map: Conducting an internal inventory of what your organization has to offer your community, including designing a collaboration framework
- Operationalizing Internal Capacity to maximize community impact
Community Context Analysis:
We support you with a “lay of the land” overview of who is trying to improve what in the local community, exploring what exists and who the players are in the community.
Our services include:
- Momentum Surfacing: Mapping the individual talents, collective energy and community mandates to identify and strategize how to capture local momentum for collective goals
- Social Infrastructure Study: Identifying which necessary conditions are in place and which conditions need to be strengthened to foster a healthy, sustainable and equitable community
Implementation & Operational Planning:
We support you to implement strategies and actions that catalyze energy and momentum in your community in order to affect positive change.
Our services include:
- Community Engagement Plan
- Playbook to Activate Your Theory of Change
- Activation Framework to Live into Strategic Plan and Directions
- Business Planning for Sustainable Community Change
Professional Development:
We support you and your teams to operationalize your community impact, while ensuring you stay aligned with your mission, vision and equity goals.
Our services include:
- Learning Journey
- Coaching
- Customized Workshops