What We Do

STRATEGIC PLANNING & EVALUATION

Establish values, build vision, grow organizations.

We provide strategic guidance, technical assistance and program design to support organizational management and growth.

What kind of community do we want to live and work in? What are the results we wish to see? Who will be our partners? What processes will we adopt to collaborate? How will we evaluate, discuss, know when we have achieved success?

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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, POLICY & SYSTEMS CHANGE

Build trust, cultivate dialogue, illuminate priorities, advocate for change.

We support communities and organizations to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement and public participation processes to advance transformative systems and policy change.

What is authentic collaborative process? Across the country, local and regional multi-stakeholder collaboratives are organizing to improve access to health, education, and economic resilience. What ingredients are needed for true collaboration that changes social and racial equity dynamics? How do we cultivate interdependence and foster innovation? How can these collaborations grow relationships and influence systems and policy?

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ANTI-RACIST LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Develop antiracist leaders and organizations. 

We support organizations, networks, peer learning communities in cultural transformation and building anti-racist practices for collaborative leadership. We approach our coaching with the goal of deepening anti-racist, transformational change at both the personal and institutional levels.

How do we shape cultural change toward anti-racism? How do we transform as individuals and as a collective? We approach our coaching with the goal of deepening anti-racist, transformational change at both the personal and institutional levels.

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION

Engage youth, teach leadership, invest in our future.

We engage young people through community-based pedagogies to understand all parts of the food system, envision positive change, and learn the tools for transforming systems and changing lives.

A new kind of leadership is needed to solve the complex problems of our times. How to we cultivate leaders that establish trust, listen, bring people into the process of shaping their futures, demonstrate flexibility, and have a sense of humor and humility, to support transformational change?

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