Strengthening your organization and its impact through:
Each organization I have the privilege to work with is like a tree. It has roots. Sometimes those roots are deep, stretching through and across generations of community wisdom, a growing body of literature, and/or experience on the ground. In all cases the tree has found sources of nourishment that have sustained it to this point. The tree has weathered some storms and will continue to do so. And, over time, it can grow to hold its unique place as part of the greater tree canopy – the leafy uppermost layers of a forest best viewed from above.
“Working with Kristin is easy and fun. She has multiple intelligences. She can take input from a multitude of sources and turn it into gold for your understanding, respect your intimate knowledge of your agency, facilitate a strategic planning process, be a thought partner with you, challenge you to go beyond the status quo to achieve real change, deliver on time, and do it all with ease. She is amazing!”
Plans & Strategies
Developing and facilitating creative and energizing group processes that inspire your team to shared vision, strategy, program and action plans, and overall learning.
Success Story
The USW Tony Mazzocchi Center’s national TOP Program sought new vision and energy. Roots to Canopy interviewed key stakeholders, reviewed existing data, and designed and facilitated this national team’s development of a strategic plan.
Results: A strengthened, newly-energized team that has exceeded its ambitious strategic goals and that serves as a national model for worker- and participant-led programs.
“Working with Roots to Canopy has been a program saver. We have accomplished more than we ever would have imagined. Our skeptical national team excelled with the clear direction that you were able to get the group to bring out of itself. This has enabled the team to build strength and solidarity for the hourly and salary workers who make the program so successful. With your guidance we have made a difference in the lives of many workers, their families, and communities.”
Evaluations & Learning
Assessing your community’s evolving assets, opportunities, and needs so your programs are effective. Evaluating your organization-level or program-level impact and process to share and leverage your successes and learnings and strengthen your work.
Success Story
350.org wanted to evaluate a national capacity-building program that it was piloting. Roots to Canopy worked in partnership with staff both to thought-partner around program design and to capture the program’s process and outcomes.
Results: An in-depth, action-oriented set of learnings and recommendations to grow climate justice groups and leaders.
“I always looked forward to my meetings with Kristin. Not only did she understand our organization, she always centered equity and movement building. She asked rigorous questions and kept our focus on goals and where we were headed. Our collaboration felt both peer-like and one where recommendations and coaching were available.”
Training
Designing and conducting training and other capacity-building initiatives that engage people in learning and action-taking.
Success Story
The Office of Population Affairs aimed to strengthen reproductive health service organizations’ program effectiveness and results orientation. Roots to Canopy created a curriculum and trained these organizations to develop outcomes and build their programs to get there.
Results: Cadres of family planning organization leaders with greater knowledge, skills, confidence, and commitment around strong program design and evaluation.
“This has been a great opportunity to really examine and think out the process of connecting desired impacts with appropriate interventions. Kristin’s style was an excellent match for me. She reframed concepts in a way that was very useful.”
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