Services - how can I help you?
Advancing Public Policies
- Designing and implementing successful advocacy campaigns to end inequities
- Training local leaders to become compelling policy advocates
- Building powerful coalitions
- Educating candidates
- Documenting policy campaigns
See Building the Advocacy Infrastructure to Win Equity Victories for Children and Families
Building Business Partnerships
- Building effective partnerships and projects with business, nonprofits, funders and government
- Preparing business executives and advocates to jointly drive impact
- Supporting business leaders to participate in initiatives that improve the current and future workforce and make your community a talent magnet
- Making the business case for a wide range of policy changes and investments
See my work with Under3DC business network
Philanthropic Practice and Fundraising
- Helping philanthropists support advocacy to address root causes of systemic racial, economic and other inequities
- Providing guidance to funders as they work with advocates and policy campaigns as substantive experts
- Effectively stewarding funding for policy advocacy
- Preparing different foundation departments to support policy advocacy
- Designing policy advocacy strategies for foundations, nonprofits and business
- Launching, managing and closing advocacy initiatives
- Selecting and managing grantee partners
- Writing successful grant proposals to support policy advocacy
- Writing funder reports on advocacy in compliance with state, federal and funder rules
See publications list for many new briefs and reports such as Public Policy and Advocacy for Grantmakers, published by the Council on Foundations
Moving Your Organization Forward
- Meeting planning and facilitation, research, analysis, writing, project management
- Child and family policy research and development
- Creating new governance structures
- Strategic planning, logic models, focus groups, surveys, assessment of impact
- Nonprofit mergers (directed three nonprofit mergers)