Our Services
Engagement
Achieve Inclusive Engagement & Consensus
Outcomes
- Targeted and community-wide public engagement techniques, such as human-centered design, meetings in a box, affinity groups, and many others
- Collaboration design (including collective impact, network design, and other models)
- Positive youth development & engagement
- Asset based community development
How we get there
- Public participation, community involvement, and stakeholder engagement
- Targeted and community-wide public engagement techniques, such as human-centered design, meetings in a box, affinity groups, and many others
- Collaboration design (including collective impact, network design, and other models)
- Positive youth development & engagement
- Asset based community development
- Strategic Facilitation
- Large meeting facilitation
- Process facilitation, such as task forces, collaboratives, and coalition processes
- Organizational culture assessment, team building, play-based learning
- Bridge building, conflict resolution, and mediation
- Strategic communications
- Quantitative and qualitative data analysis and opinion research
- Communications auditing
- Communications plan development (objectives, audiences, strategies, tactics)
- Implementation, evaluation and continuous process improvement
- Social media planning and evaluation
- Paid and earned media planning, outreach and response
- Resource and materials development
- Facilitation and outreach support
Strategy
Enhance Your Sustainability, Expansion, and Capacity
Outcomes
- Impactful, scalable, and sustainable initiatives
- Capacity to carry the strategy forward
- Aligned path forward that will drive equitable and structural impact and results
- Ability to measure implementation success and grow impactful changes along the way
How we get there
- Outcomes-Based Planning
- Strategic, scenario, and sustainability planning
- Roadmap and program development
- Systems Change for Increased Impact - Complex systems change and leverage point analysis
- Foundation strategic planning and investment
- Operationalizing Implementation
- Adaptive implementation planning
- Change management
- Decision making processes
Learning And Evaluation
Utilize Multiple Forms of Evidence to Continuously Improve Your Efforts
Outcomes
- Inclusive planning to identify shared goals
- Operationalize shared goals for meaningful measures
- Learning processes and tools to facilitate real-time change and action
- Data and reports that include multiple perspectives and cultural relevance
How we get there
- Collaboration to optimize evaluation questions and design for learning and application
- Culturally responsive equitable evaluation design and community assessments
- Actionable, utilization-focused evaluation questions
- Participatory approaches to engage a variety of stakeholders in the process for meaningful results and learning
- Participatory planning
- Identification and engagement of key stakeholders in the design process to ensure relevance and engagement in data collection and data use
- Participatory logic model and theory of change processes for formative and summative assessment
- Identifying appropriate and culturally valid metrics and data sources - quantitative and qualitative, primary or secondary
- Culturally relevant learning
- Data analysis with stakeholder input and/or feedback into meaning making
- Present learnings and recommendations for improvement in a variety of mediums for a variety of audiences
- Utilize Emergent Learning tools to foster stakeholder engagement in application of findings and recommendations, including regular iteration to logic models, theories of change, and strategy documents
Who We Serve
Our clients include collaboratives and coalitions, local, state and federal governments, nonprofits, foundations, social enterprises, and corporate social responsibility departments.
We work from the beginning design stage to report development and everything in between.
"The whole Civic Consulting Collaborative team are the dream team for facilitation! They helped a huge task force navigate an extremely contentious issue, and got the group to 100% consensus on all of the recommendations."
Jolon Clark
Former President of Denver City Council
"During more than three decades of conservation work, I’ve not participated in an effort more inclusive, interactive, strategic or inspiring. The Roadmap Summit has literally ushered in a new era of collaborative conservation."
Grasslands Roadmap Summit Participant
"Working with Civic Consulting Collaborative team members makes planning and implementing our ideas a reality. They have multi-dimensional expertise, compassion and innovative ideas, and are a pleasure to work with."
Christine "Chris" Meyer, MA
COACT Project Director