DIVE DEEPER

Into what we can do with and for you and your organization

ACTION PLANNING​

• Identifying project indicators/benchmarks

• Designing and charting processes

• Selecting criteria for evaluation

• Designing the evaluation cycle

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BOARD DEVELOPMENT​

• Governance processes

• Committee, task force organization

• New member orientation 

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BOARD RECRUITMENT PLANNING​

• Outreach practices

• Building a bench

• Identifying your strengths, needs

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CAPACITY BUILDING​

• Assessment of organizational strengths, opportunities

• Strategies to address needs and threats

• Skill building

• Finding needed resources

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COACHING TRAINING​

• Four-day program

• Interactive workshop for groups

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COMMUNICATION PLANNING

• Comprehensive needs assessment

• Crisis communication plan

• Special projects

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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT​

• Research-based pedagogy

• Lifelong learning strategies

• Alignment to relevant standards

• Scope and sequence, horizontal and vertical articulation

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DATA MAPPING​

• Location of data points on a map adds depth to understanding

• New relationships can be discerned

• Useful tool for needs assessment, evaluations

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EDITING AND PROOFREADING​

• Track changes on your documents

• Perfect documents with no grammar errors

• Concise language

• Writing to say what you mean effectively

• Transcription available with seven days lead time

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EVALUATION​

• Rubric development

• Program evaluation instruments

• Instruction and mentoring on data collection

• Focus groups

• Interviews

• Surveys

• Observations of practices and feedback

• Evaluation system design with tools for implementation

• Conducting evaluations (no personnel reviews)

• Creating instruments for evaluating performances

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FACILITATION​

• Planning meetings

• Information sharing

• Small or large group discussions

• General meetings where a convener is required

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GRANT WRITING/TRAINING​

• Prospecting for funders

• Advising about funding cycles and timing of applications

• Committee facilitation for bigger grant designs

• Proposal development with committee

• Budgeting a project

• Community resource mapping

• Project design and initial implementation coaching

• Grant writing training: Three days over time, interactive workshop with assignments

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RESEARCH​ AND ANALYSIS

• Project support

• Data collection tailored to your needs from proprietary and public sources

• Customized information set development

• Reports on findings

• Use this capacity to support your own reports and documents you prepare

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STRATEGIC PLANNING​

• Facility arrangements for retreats

• Pre-session assessment

• Strategic plan report

• Audience is Executive Director and Board of Directors. Staff may be included. 

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE​

• Creating new educational programs

• Creating curriculum

• Creating documents to support funding proposals for programs

• Developing programs in phases to fit funding available

• Translation services for French and Spanish. Other languages available.