SeeChange is a consulting practice that helps leaders and organizations partner with the communities they serve and impact to address challenges collectively.

We use an array of tools in our consulting practice including well-designed and facilitated conversations and convenings; policy, data, and research distilled in forms that are easy to understand and spark ideas and curiosities; and subject matter expertise.

We have seen evidence of how organizations are better able to meet their goals when their processes, programs, and policies are designed with the people they are intended to serve.

We are skilled at coming alongside leaders and organizations to partner with the communities they serve and impact to address challenges and co-create opportunities.

Our Services

Our services help education institutions, nonprofits, and government agencies create policies, programs, and plans that are designed to ensure that everyone has equal access to opportunities to define their own success and reach their goals.

Strategy & Planning

Organizations looking to chart a new path often need an outside eye to help them see new ways of achieving their mission. We help our partners design that new path, leveraging organizational strengths, employee and community engagement, data, research, and content expertise. We are thoughtful and thorough and translate complex topics into easy-to-digest materials and actionable recommendations.

Policy & Practice

When organization leaders begin a new phase of their journey to build on their own or their organization's strengths and get better at what they do, they often don’t know where or how to begin. What's working well and what could be better? What are the red alarms going off and what can we do to mitigate challenges? What policies should be in place? How might practices line up with policies? We help leaders identify effective strategies.

Facilitation, Coaching & Communications

We’re not afraid to lend a hand to help you do the real work of getting stuff done well and communicating with whomever needs to know and be part of that work. From 1 to 1 coaching for your leaders navigating organizational change, to designing and facilitating planning sessions and retreats, to developing communication tools that align with your strategy, we are ready to roll up our sleeves, partner, and add capacity to your organization.

"These meetings are the most prepared and purpose-filled meetings that I attend during the week. I appreciate all the thought you are putting into them!"

"I appreciate you letting the ideas flow in organic ways. [SeeChange] did a lovely job giving shape without overextending control."

“The facilitation was great! Thank you SeeChange. I appreciated getting an overview of our work and also seeing what is already being done to collect data that informs our work."

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes, this is a critical component of ensuring that your organization gives all communities equal access to opportunity. We love helping our partners with this work!

  • Our experience tells us that well-intended efforts to seek community input often fall short of meaningful, authentic engagement. We thoughtfully plan at least 4-6 month engagements to pair community engagement with other inputs including prior community engagement, research, data, and an analysis of how policies and practices have impacted communities. We often decline one-off engagements that are less than 6 months in favor of holistic strategies to think about the "big picture" needed to redesign and refine systems to make sure they work well for everyone, particularly those who have been traditionally underserved. We look for a readiness from our clients to integrate community engagement in ongoing processes and help you develop your organizational capacity to live up to that promise.

  • Yes! We have facilitated one-day retreats and we've also facilitated years-long learning communities. We prefer to work with clients who are clear on their intentions and desired outcomes for gathering people together, but we can also help you get clearer on what you hope to achieve.

  • It depends. We contract with public agencies and foundations as technical assistance providers to help potential grantees (community-based organizations) navigate complex grant requirements. In some cases, this means we help community-based organizations apply for grants from public agencies and foundations. We think of this work as building and sharing capacity to strengthen a broad network of organizations in our communities. If you're looking for hourly support to apply for a grant and have the details of the program you are seeking grants for already figured out, we won't be able to help you. We do support organizations with program design to help you figure out the details of what you should be applying for and how to effectively communicate it.

  • Yes, we are good at helping to translate your vision and goals into reality!

  • Public policy is our passion and we would love to help you with that, provided that you're open to incorporating the perspectives of those who have been typically left behind by the issue you want to address, and are committed to investing the time and resources for equitable process.

  • Absolutely! We start this type of work with doing an organizational assessment, including voices from employees and/or community members. If you'd like, we can translate promising practices relevant to your industry and organization into our project design and deliverables.

 

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