Advisory services for public partners, gardens, parks, and green spaces
Research, assessment, and evaluation
We collaborate with your team to ensure your research, assessment, and evaluation projects are carried out rigorously and ethically while meeting your organizational goals. We encourage organizations to have members of their team working closely with our research experts to learn and grow your organization's capacity to design and conduct research even after our partnership comes to an end.
Interpretive & Strategic communications
Working closely with your team, we strive to deeply understand your vision and mission and to interpret these into holistic, culturally competent, and appealing communications strategies to meaningfully communicate with those you serve.
Strategy & Planning
Before embarking on a strategic plan for your organization, we'll partner with you to help you distill and articulate your organization's vision and mission and provide a strategic roadmap to guide your detailed planning effort. We engage your internal stakeholders in a thorough and organic process that ensures your vision and mission are baked right into your organization's DNA rather than being simply words on a piece of paper.
Community Stakeholder Assessment and engagement
We relentlessly bring your organization back to the question "Who do you serve?", centering your communities and stakeholders in every process and recommendation we put forward. We also believe that community stakeholder assessment and engagement needs to be an ongoing effort, long after our involvement has ended. We provide you with the tools and training to continue to engage the communities you serve ethically, responsibly, and always with the health of your community relationships centered in the work.
IDEA (Inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility) consulting
We understand that, from a distance, the concepts enshrined in IDEA are easy to grasp and close to the hearts of many. We also understand that the work of bringing those concepts to life isn't carried out from a distance. It's a part of every decision, large and small, that your organization and teams make. We bring deep expertise in this realm to help your organization better understand yourselves and the diverse communities you serve as well as strategic and tactical approaches, tailored to your context, that will help you meaningfully engage and communicate with people from historically underserved communities, whether in your internal or external efforts.
training & capacity Building
While many advisors will bring you answers, we instead focus on helping you formulate the right questions to ask yourselves and your community stakeholders. Whether you would like to strengthen your organizations' ability to conduct ethical and rigorous assessments and evaluations or learn how to create your own tailored IDEA strategy, we're here to support you with training and capacity building. We create custom experiences to fit your needs, ranging from one-off training sessions to longer, embedded engagements.
