What I Do : Examples

Community Coalition Building

A large service provider has a mandate to provide climate-change resources to community clients. 

They are struggling to connect with community, and they don't know how to build trust with clients. 

Together we study the challenges at play in the fractured connection between the service provider and the community, and we come up with a set of actions to rebuild trust. 

With ongoing community connection, deeper needs emerge, and an adaptive project is co-designed by the service provider and clients. 

The service provider can now fulfill their social mandate through a meaningful, connected, project with measureable impact. 

They meet their social mandate and are on a pathway to values-based, lasting, community relationships. 

Informed Consent                                       

A not-for-profit organization offers skills trainings to a large group of volunteers. 

The organization wants to ensure that informed consent is understood and implemented by all instructors in their skills trainings, as the trainings involve some physical contact. 

Together we share what we know and what we want to learn about consent in learning spaces. 

We develop guidelines for implementing informed consent. 

We respect the knowledge the community of volunteers and learners bring to the trainings. Going forward, skills training are delivered in a way that improves trust, inclusion, and consent. 

Community Collaboration

A group of highly motivated, caring, not-for-profit organizations serving community are struggling with stretched resources and human exhaustion. 

This has lead to challenges for inter-agency collaboration. 

Together we identify what is needed for collaboration, what each agency can share, and how they can collaborate with dignity. 

We design projects that feed rather than deplete resources and relationships. 

The projects have deeper social impact because the inter-agency collaboration reaches more community members.