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Our journey begins with a simple step: listening.
We dive deep into understanding your aspirations, ensuring your voice guides our collaborative path forward. United in purpose, we’ll tackle challenges head-on, striving for impactful change that paves the way for a future enriched by inclusivity, fairness, and bold steps forward. It’s about blending straightforward action with visionary thinking – creating real solutions that courageously move us all towards a more equitable tomorrow. Your vision shouldn’t be limited by your budget – we provide versatile, affordable solutions.
Leverage applied research, public policy and advocacy tactics, and ogranizational strategy, planning, and scaling practices…
we can equip and support ogranizations, leaders, and partners with the information, tools, resources, capacity, and know-how to advance just and equitable economic and social solutions…
Leverage applied research, public policy and advocacy tactics, and ogranizational strategy, planning, and scaling practices…
Inform solutions…
Information and data live at the foundation of all our projects.We leverage data, research, and evaluation to help inform our partners’ solutions and advance impact. We’re skilled at co-creating discovery processes alongside our partners and weaving human and data-centered research methods together to understand our client’s needs and challenges and inform and advance solutions.
Advance policies that transform systems…
We’re experts at advancing structural shifts to public problems that transform systems. We help our clients catalyze, strategize, and advance public solutions rooted in equity, justice, inclusion, and impact. We know that advancing systemic change requires applying coalition strategies and honing government relations and advocacy strategies alongside our partners to drive change.
Coalition strategy
Initiatives and campaign strategy
Community engagement strategy
Government relations strategy
Advocacy strategy
Policy research and analysis
Spark growth…
Program strategy and development
Innovation and pilot planning
Training and technical assistance
Strategic visioning and planning
Fundraising and development strategy
As the head of a scrappy, high-growth stage non-profit organization, I have seen the trains come and go when it comes to consultants. Most of them let you down. Not Melissa. She stands tall above all of them. From the get, Melissa demonstrated a no-drama, no-ego, all about getting it done type of attitude — able and willing to proactively manage at the high and the low of our project. We focus on innovation — high-risk, high reward type of trying new ideas work that most are not cut out for. Melissa happily jumped off the cliff with us and boy are we lucky. The innovation that will soon be launched in Chicago to demonstrate the nation’s first-ever public platform for good gig work will be supported by strong partners, sound policy analysis, and a secure foundation — in large part because of Melissa’s contributions.”
Adrian Haro, CEO, The Workers Lab