Capacity Building

I work with organizations and teams to build their facilitation, data design, and collaboration skills. After years of consulting and facilitation, I believe this is the most sustainable approach to building resilience and autonomy in and around social change organizations.

Capacity building packages have two levels:

  1. Goal-based, time-bound support: 1 - 2 months, working towards a specific event or goal

  2. Skill-building: 4+ months, with a focus on building general skills that will support facilitation, data design, or more broad organizational effectiveness work

While these packages focus on staff-level skills, they require buy-in and support from Leadership.

Organizational Effectiveness & Learning

I work with organizations to build out and strengthen their learning practices. We might work together on:

  • designing and practicing lean learning and reflective practices that are tailored to existing processes

  • during times of Leadership transition, conduct a Knowledge Retention process to move institutional knowledge out of folks’ heads and into organizational memory

  • developing compassionate and effective ways of working that support learning

  • learning how to learn together

These processes are those of skill- and trust-building—teams come out on the other side with a new understanding of their work and with a replicable shared practice for navigating change as a team.

Consulting

While I prefer to focus on capacity building work, I do take on a limited number of project-based consulting engagements each year. To the right are brief descriptions of how we might work together!

1-on-1

Is a member of your staff well-positioned to become your organization’s in-house facilitator? I can coach and teach them as they build their facilitation practices, design agendas, and learn from experience.

Goal-based support: $3,000 - 5,000

Skill-building: $3,000/month for a minimum of four months

2 - 4 Staff, 1 Executive Champion

Are you looking to build a facilitation or data design “bench” of folks who can work as internal consultants? I will work with these folks to build their skills, define their roles, and to define foundational processes for building a sustainable internal practice.

Goal-based support: $5,000 -10,000

Skill-building: $5,000/month for a minimum of four months

4 - 6 Staff, 2 Executive Champions

Same as 2 - 4 Staff, with more folks!

Goal-based support: $8,000 - $12,000

Skill-building: $8,000/month for a minimum of four months

Data & Measurement Design

I work with organizations to create and implement Theories of Change, Data Principles, Evidence and Analysis Plans, and Data Strategies that are values- and mission-aligned.

Before we can effectively collect, manage, and use our data, we must get clear on why we need the data! Often, organizations cast a wide net: they collect whatever data they can and ask questions of those data later. This results in wasted time, energy, and a cloudy view into impact. This approach can also cause harm: data collection is an extractive activity, and unless we’re clear about our intentions from the beginning, we risk upholding the violence of systems many of us are working to dismantle.