Our Work Helped Move the Needle! 

We have deep experience working with leadership groups across the social sector in designing, planning, and adapting long-term change initiatives addressing poverty and injustice and in reshaping prevailing practices around well-being, community resilience, and fair opportunities for people struggling in our society. During the last 25 years, our work generated some big ripples - many that continue to positively improve the needle of opportunity and well-being for people with limited resources. 

We are grateful to have provided strategic consulting roles in efforts that: 

• ‍Accelerated grassroots community change solutions across the Mississippi Delta that were led by local social entrepreneurs being supported by
• ‍Improved health care access and services in St. Paul, MN, Hamilton, Canada, and behavioral health systems in Oregon and established sustained cross-sector collaboration in those regions that is increasing health and well-being outcomes.
• ‍Supported through collective learning practices a network of more than 300 change agents that are coaching and facilitating community renewal across the country. We also co-facilitated with Gary Hubbell annual strategic leadership learning networks for leaders in health, higher education, and rural development; this generated a strong body of distinctive perspectives on social change and impact.
• ‍Sustained the work of nonprofit groups so they could reinvest several million dollars to increase affordable housing, strengthen food support systems, and expand effective policies for low-income families.
• ‍Shaped innovative business strategies for a few select firms in the internet technology and assisted living sectors
• ‍Increased the environment for enhanced collaboration between Native leaders and philanthropies serving Native communities
• ‍Supported community-directed strategies to improve the postsecondary pipelines in a dozen major U.S. cities for Latinos and for single parents in several regions.