COMMUNITY BUILDING

Build bridges to your community.

In many college and university towns, there's a disconnect between the school (which very well may be the largest employer) and the broader community. Despite the best efforts of individual students, staff, faculty, and leadership the connection may be diffuse and the impact untold or not felt by the community.

Taking action to build community requires coordination, dedication, and willpower. Do these challenges sound familiar?

Nothing about your community engagement feels coordinated, plus everyone has their own agenda.

You know you need to get focused, you’re feeling stretched, and it’s limiting your reach.

You know you need to increase the visibility of your community work.

Everyone’s moving in different directions.

You don’t have the right people in the right roles—community engagement is too decentralized.

You’ve been slow to build relationships, it feels like you’re moving at a glacial pace.

The work we’ll do together.

We'll work together to design the right program for you. Here are some common services we have deployed with other organizations.

  • We’ll identify and convene key contributors, including decision-makers, and guide the team through a series of exercises to explore, define, and set essential goals.

  • We’ll work with you to get clear on the important people and organizations that are part of decision-making and implementation in your community.

  • We’ll review your organization’s broad set of activities and gather essential details about the time and team investment and known impact they affect. This will help us compare activities at the right level of detail.

  • We’ll help you identify the pathway to growing and maintaining healthy relationships with key people in the community to help strengthen your connections.

  • We’ll help you define, scope, and build mutually beneficial partnerships to help advance your goals and theirs.

  • Depending on your needs, we can help you roll out programming, evaluate funding strategy, improve messaging to internal and external audiences, as well as offer a variety of other support activities.

EXPLORE OUR WORK

We worked with Notre Dame to grow community engagement.

Make more impact.

Reach out to schedule a discovery call.
We’d love to help you strategize.