Client List 1993 - 2006 (Alphabetical Order P - Z)

Designed and facilitated a year-long community strategic planning and leadership development process with 7 teams of community volunteers. This work was built around monthly training institutes and involved data gathering through business surveys and asset mapping and helping train teams to lead a regional redevelopment movement.

Partnered with another firm to guide a large team of municipal governments and agencies, universities, and over 90 neighborhood associations, industries, community-based organizations, youth and faith-based groups around Little Rock through the 1998 comprehensive Empowerment Zone planning process that led to a $140 million economic and human development plan. The partners were selected by HUD as a Strategic Planning City, one that is eligible for $3 million in additional community development grants.

Provided training and strategic planning for community-based nonprofit organizations for this alliance of neighborhood development corporations in central Arkansas.

Designed major, historic exhibit hall; researched and prepared interpretive concept for post-WWII era, highlighting the impact of poultry on NW Arkansas

Guided organizational strategic planning processes and provided management consulting services for a 22-member collaborative working in persistently poor rural communities.

Designed workshop on leadership and comprehensive community development using six interlocking systems.

Developed a strategic planning retreat for this national group of state chapters and tribes that, along with the National Park Service, guide research and interpretation about the American Indian history of forced removal of Cherokee people from the southeast to reservations in the west during the 1830s.

Designed and delivered training on using the Internet to support community development and on designing statewide rural development conferences enhancing community-based development for Rural Development staff at national training conference. Developed and delivered workshops on locating foundation funds to support rural development for EZ Round II workshops in 1998.

Designed and facilitated leadership workshops centered on the challenges of bringing the knowledge economy and complex networks to rural communities. Since 1999, we've been a partner in the Vision 2010 Initiative, which helps communities include technology in their development plans.

Participated on evaluation team leading three-year intensive case-study of Foundation for the Mid South' Workforce Alliance initiative in Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi; wrote analytical reports on trends and central issues: Building Civic Infrastructure & Social Capital to Lead Community Change and Develop Competitive Workforces in the Delta.

Led strategic planning for global staff and consultants managing African Women Leaders in Agriculture & Environment initiative in the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Senegal.

Coordinated surveys and resource conferences for Arkansas communities that participated in Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities initiatives from 1994-1996. In 1999, Ken Hubbell and Associates helped plan and facilitate a conference for private foundations, agencies, and intermediaries working on community building initiatives across the US.

Ken Hubbell and Associates has worked with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on a number of projects as well as internally at the WKKF headquarters in Battle Creek, MI.

• Mid South Delta Initiative
  Since 1996, our firm has been working extensively with the Foundation on its Mid South Delta Initiative (MSDI), which entails an investment of more than $40 million in a 55-county region of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Involved from the beginning, our firm is a member of the core planning team that has shaped the Initiative and continues to shape its future using tools like scenario planning. In addition to our role as key planners, we also:
  
  • Serve as the "communications hub" for the Initiative, designing, producing and distributing electronic and print newsletters, impact reports and county-specific maps portraying the activities and outputs of grantees' work in the region; creating and updating the Mid South Delta Initiative website (www.msdi.org); and convening regional communications conferences;
  • Coach one of the MSDI grantees-a bi-racial group of community volunteers engaged in planning tourism development for rural Louisiana;
  • Coordinated a "listening tour" of the region for the Foundation Board of Trustees and program staff;
  • Participated in the initial six-month community planning workshops for rural groups engaged in long-term redevelopment efforts;
  • Conducted site visits and community outreach meetings as the initiative expanded to include 15 community-level grantees;
  • Developed a technology capacity building and training series for grantees that included "how to's" of laptop computing, email, Microsoft operating system, digital imaging and color graphics; and
  • Produced a presentation entitled "Using the Web in Communities."
  
  
  
• Food Systems and Rural Development
  The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Food Systems and Rural Development (FSRD) program has provided grants to more 400 organizations since 1991. Ken Hubbell & Associates is currently conducting interviews with program officers and synthesizing FSRD documents to
  
  • Extrapolate from grantee's work the key themes of the Food Systems and Rural Development program;
  • Create indicators, which can be used to objectively classify grantees by theme;
  • Design a graphic representation of FSRD's integrated theory of change based on themes.
  
  
  
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation-Internal
  Ken Hubbell and Associates has also worked with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation internally and on other projects. For example, we
  
  • Designed and facilitated strategic planning retreats for the Foundation's Diversity Advisory Committee and for the Human Resources Department in October and November 2003;
  • Surveyed US organizations and firms that provide communication and media training to nonprofits and developed a Resource Directory for the Foundation's Communication office;
  • Currently participate in the core team initiating and planning the development a regional nonprofit sector center in the Delta.