Technical Assistance, Consulting and Program Implementation

We act as collaborative partners to provide strategic consulting, customized technical
assistance, and implementation support to assist organizations in making their initiatives
achievable, successful, impactful and sustainable. Our approach is personalized and
we are responsive to the organization’s context, systems, relationships, staff and leadership
dynamics, and visions for shared purpose.

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Strategic Planning

We work together with you to build strategic plans that are grounded your data, shaped by your internal and external stakeholders, and designed to move from your vision and the requirements of your initiative to action.

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• Conduct a review and assessment of your organization to understand such areas as your climate, systems, decision making processes, institutional values, leadership and other roles and persons, and any barriers

• Facilitate inclusive sessions that surface shared or differing priorities, and institutional histories, range of understanding the new initiative

• Analyzing existing data, prior plans, current routines and ways of functioning and levels of commitment to align or change current practices with those of the new initiative

• Develop a clear strategic framework with defined priorities, measurable outcomes, and timed and sequenced roadmap

• Identifying leverage points within the organization which can provide momentum for modeling for others and where focused effort will produce the most impact

• Together with your internal or external evaluators establish indicators and feedback cycles and structures so that the plan is a dynamic living document with continuous review and improvement

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Customized Technical Assistance

We are task oriented, embedded, hands on, and responsive to the organization’s goals, context, capacity and to the requirements of the initiative. Once the plans are established, technical assistance is structured to operate both collaboratively and internally within your organization, supporting operational activities.

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• Reviewing grant or initiative requirements, funder, leader and organizational requirement expectations.

• Research any compliance framework

• Ensure alignment between organizational goals, goals of the initiative and any funding or expenditure effects

• Role specific coaching and direct support to program coordinators, staff, site leads, leadership teams or individuals through the transition from planning to actions to implementation with attention to culture, readiness for system or organizational change, and engagement of the other stakeholders in and outside of the organization

• Developing and refining tools such as templates, project monitoring and management tools, documentation systems, and reporting process

• Drafting, reviewing and strengthening required reports, narrative and compliance documents

• Facilitating team meetings, working with implementation teams to trouble shoot and help keep the focus and progress with fidelity

• Customized assistance that strengthens and builds capacity and responds to the emerging needs

• Ongoing partnership to address barriers and challenges, creative problem solving, refine approaches as needed to build and sustain positive movement forward to accomplishing goals

• Identifying and developing resources

• Assisting in preparing for presentations to boards, conversations with funders or decision makers.

• Practical guidance to support sustained implementation over time.

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Implementation Support and Consulting

This process is iterative, using a design process feedback cycle there is a continuous revisiting of the strategic plans, and emerging needs for consulting and technical assistance. Implementation support is the longitudinal development and improvement layer based on analysis with ongoing reflection. This process helps drive the initial planning for sustained organizational and systems changes for institutionalization of the initiative.

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• Coordinating the internal and external evaluators to maintain a monitoring framework aligned to the initiatives or grants performance measures, logic model and reporting structure

• Conduct regular progress reviews

• Facilitate mid cycle reflection sessions for continuous improvement including determining what adjustments, modifications or corrections need to be made ongoing

• Review and track any outcome data for site visits, renewal applications, funder reports

• Support the development of sustainability plans so that the changes, practices are institutionalized beyond the initial funding and implementation stage