Ignite Leadership. Enhance Impact.

Positive social and organizational change requires collective leadership, adaptive strategies, and an orientation towards action. We consider the whole of an organization and co-create a holistic plan to support leaders and communities in assessing, developing, and growing mission-driven solutions.

We lead with empathy, community-centered and community-led design principles, and a systems change mindset. Our methods include appreciative inquiry, creative collaboration, discovery, entrepreneurial strategies, relational meetings, trust-based and participatory processes, and restorative practices. We lean on our field experience and Trusted Partner community of practice to ensure that our research and recommendations are always grounded in proven and promising strategies for transformative change.

Is your organization seeking to strengthen equity and people-centered programs, policies, and practices?

We can help you:

• Create or refresh an action-oriented strategic plan with participation and buy-in across core audiences;

• Define and communicate organizational values and live them through a values-driven decision-making framework;

• Assess the overall health of your organization and identify immediate capacity-building initiatives;

• Spark partnership opportunities that lean into collective impact and sustainability;

• Provide landscape research and analysis to inform organizational strategy and growth;

• Assess programs, policies, and/or practices and co-create a blueprint to deepen equity-centered actions and accountability;

• Support the design and application of participatory and trust-based philanthropic practices;

• Guide opportunities to connect with, listen to, and apply feedback from internal audiences, community members, and program beneficiaries as a core organizational practice.

GCG can help you fortify the building blocks for durable social change.

Services

ASSESSMENT, STRATEGY & GROWTH
Audience Engagement
Change Management
Communications & Storytelling
iCAT Administration & Facilitation
Mergers & Transitions
Needs Assessment
Organizational & Strategic Planning
Partnership Development
Program Review, Design & Evaluation

CIVIC & CULTURAL LIFE
Advocacy
Civic & Community Engagement
Creative Placemaking

ENTREPRENEURSHIP - SOCIAL & CIVIC
Curriculum, Coaching & Training

LEADERSHIP
Board Governance
Leadership Capacity Building

PHILANTHROPY
Campaign Strategy
Corporate Social Responsibility
Fund Development
Philanthropic Strategy
Trust-based & Participatory Practices

…Helped our organization look at what stage of growth we are in holistically.

"In the nonprofit field, it can be easy to focus on what is most pressing in front of us or skip ahead to expansion and big goals. Doing the Impact Capacity Assessment (iCAT) with GCG really helped our organization take a look at what stage of growth we are in holistically — appreciating both our strengths and how far we've come and where gaps exist. This perspective, along with insightful questions, helped inform our next moves for strategic planning in a way that we would not have gotten with staff and board reflections alone. There is no doubt in my mind that our strategic plan will be more focused & realistic thanks to the work that we did together."
— Alena Schaim, Executive Director, Resolve