Client List

Provided strategic planning and organizational management consulting. Engaged in joint ventures developing interactive websites on historical subjects-photographer Mike Disfarmer, the exhibit Persistence of the Spirit and The Mosaic Templars Building Preservation Society. Two of these sites earned ADDY design recognition and praise from USA Today.

Facilitated strategic business analysis and scenario framework to create a five-year Operating Plan. Developed graphic diagrams for the organization's original Theory of Change, Business Idea, and generated strategic and resource development options.

Coordinated resource information to applicant network in state's distressed communities; developed a 10-year strategy targeting state agency programs and foundation initiatives to support community-driven strategies in persistently poor counties.

Conducted public meetings and developed 5-year Consolidated Plan covering Community Development Block Grant priorities for the state's HUD funds. Collaborated on a subsequent report: Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

Coordinated research into environmental quality in Phillips and Lee counties; developed staff, community outreach, and program plans for a nonprofit environmental justice agency.

Helped the Museum's planning board introduce the museum's mission and solicit historical materials and financial resources for the establishment of an Arkansas State Police Museum through printed communication materials designed and produced by our firm.

KHA has provided ongoing executive coaching for the tribe’s Ventures team as part of a ten year poverty reduction initiative on the reservation that is supported by the Northwest Area Foundation and others.

KHA is working with the staff and Advisory Council on a series of strategic learning retreats to identify new opportunities and to connect the team around a new shared vision.

Previously, KHA researched the history and impact of Arkansas' folk life programs and prepared recommendations to revive program through new networks between state agencies and universities.

Created Master Plan for a new cultural center, which has become a state agency under the Department of Arkansas Heritage. During this project, we partnered with Master Architect Tommy Jameson who is restoring the historic Mosaic Templars' Headquarters Building, historian John Graves who is an expert on Mosaic Templars history and community history, and members of the Mosaic Templars Building Preservation Society. For more information about the project and to see the completed Master Plan, please visit the Mosaic Templars Building Preservation Society website at www.mosaictemplarspreservation.org/plans.

In 2003, Ken Hubbell and Associates began a two-year oral history project centered on African American history and culture in Little Rock. This project was made possible through a grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and will result in an interactive educational CD that Ken Hubbell and Associates will design and distribute to educational facilities throughout Arkansas. The research will also result in some of the first exhibit work for the Mosaic Templars of America Center.

Provided planning, organizational development, board training, and affordable housing development assistance for nonprofit housing organization in the Arkansas Delta.

Developed a communications systems analysis and designed strategies for using the web to streamline grant proposal reviews and to expand online content about corporate responsibility

Developed a HUD Hope VI $130 million community revitalization application that included mixed income housing, community opportunity, and small business, youth enrichment, job training, health and family computing support centers near the Clinton Presidential Library.

Participated in regional design team from rural development sector to help shape the grassroots leadership programming for the Foundation's work across the southeast. Facilitated regional site visits for the Board.

Ken Hubbell and Associates has worked extensively since 1993 with MDC, a nonprofit organization that develops regional education, workforce and economic development initiatives.

• Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count
  This multi-year initiative, funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education, addresses a national imperative: increasing the success of students at community colleges, especially low-income students and students of color. For this initiative, Ken Hubbell and Associates is training coaches and data facilitators who will assist demonstration sites as they plan and implement policies and practices that support student success at community colleges. Our firm also helped MDC conceptualize the role of these coaches and continues to engage coaches in reflective practice.
  
  
• Rural Community Colleges Initiative
  Ken Hubbell and Associates assisted rural community colleges in the Southern United States and in Appalachia that were engaged in a national Ford Foundation project. Our principal activity was field coaching for teams developing long-term plans and strategies for increasing access to education for lower-income people and for expanding economic development in distressed communities. We coached four community coalitions and helped design and facilitate learning institutes and workshops.
  
  
• University of Namibia
  Collaborated on a regional initiative in Namibia, Southern Africa by helping the University of Namibia create and implement a regional development plan built around expanded access to public education, micro-small business support, heritage and artisan market development and collaborative leadership. Ken Hubbell and Associates helped conduct training workshops and events in Namibia and site visits to exemplary projects in the US, and we continue serving as coaches and technical advisors to the Northern Campus of the University of Namibia. Most recently, we guided the University of Namibia staff through a scenario-based strategic planning process for northern Namibia and the northern campus of the university.
  
  
• Rural Carolinas
  Facilitated a strategic review for the Rural Carolinas program, funded by the Duke Endowment.
• FEMA-Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Program
  Collaborated with staff on a framework for levels of community capacity in engaging low income citizens in community disaster response plans.
  
  
• Ft. Worth Coalition for Community Change
  Collaborated on a neighborhood training initiative for the Ft. Worth Coalition for Community Change, three local coalitions in the central city that are developing leadership teams to plan and implement neighborhood renewal with support from the Burnett Foundation.
  
  
• MDC-Internal
  For MDC, Ken Hubbell and Associates designed training materials including a three-dimensional cube that won Gold ADDY awards in southwest district Advertising Federation competition in 1998. We also edited and designed a Community Change Toolkit for practitioners.
  
  

Designed and facilitated the Meridian School Education Task Force's strategic planning process for Meridian's long-term school improvement initiative, and conceptualized a community and school system engagement and leadership process.

Guided staff strategic planning process and developed 5-year agency plan; developed collaborative strategic planning training guide to be used by communities and agencies targeting adult learners.

In 2007, we designed a series of team learning and planning retreats for the Center staff to help shape a high performing and diverse creative and management team.

KHA created a Master Plan for a new cultural center, which has become a state agency under the Department of Arkansas Heritage. The Center will open in late 2008. For more information please visit the Mosaic Templars website at http://www.mosaictemplarscenter.org/

In 2003, Ken Hubbell and Associates guided a two-year oral history project centered on African American history and culture in Little Rock. This project became an interactive CD, Voices, The African American Experience in Little Rock, which was distributed to over 1,000 schools in the state.

Provided strategic planning and organizational development assistance to expand community childcare and housing initiatives sponsored by a faith-based community development corporation.

Ken Hubbell and Associates provided strategic planning to the board and staff and designed conferences and training workshops as well as publications. Our work beginning in 1995 and continuing for several years included developing a network among 11 collaborative teams working in distressed Arkansas counties to plan and implement comprehensive community development. For this Champion Communities model, we organized conferences, task forces, Internet sites and training. Working with Stephens, Inc. we developed a new funding method using a unique collateralized bond issue to generate operating funds for community coalitions.

Helped design and facilitate learning events for the Reservation Ventures initiative that supports Indian tribes in South Dakota (Cheyenne River Sioux), North Dakota (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), and Washington (Lummi) during a strategic planning process for catalyzing development on the reservations.

In 2006 and 2007 KHA facilitated a five-year strategic planning process with the Old State House. By incorporating staff surveys, trends research, the organization’s own history, and scenario development, Ken Hubbell & Associates helped the staff to create a Shared Vision, Strategic Direction, and Five Year Goals for their organization.

Developed property, historic buildings for affordable housing in Helena. Prepared plans and proposals for major investment from foundations and for joint venture with community housing group to build single-family homes.

Facilitated strategic planning meetings with program staff, grantees, and rural sociologists to examine ways to leverage small grants, networks and selected technical assistance for grassroots social justice projects in the Southeast.